Ioanna Maleskou spoke about what has been heard about her and the difficulties she spent during her first time at SKAI.
"Every beginning is difficult" they say and the well-known presenter was no exception, as one can easily see by reading the interview she gave to the magazine "OK" and to Giannis Poulopoulos.
There she spoke about the first two months in her new professional home, SKAI, the negative comments she heard and the attacks on her, which even included wishes for death and cancer.
Does Love it have your personal stamp?
I love Love it and I love it because it is my beginning. I will not tell you that it is absolutely as it can be, because everything in our life goes evolutionarily and is built.
In the beginning did you have a say in setting up the show?
"My partners were the choice of the station but they definitely had my consent. I wish I was still with a lot of people, but unfortunately it is not possible. (Laughs.)"
It is written that changes will be made in the new season, both in front and behind the cameras.
"Of course there will be changes, but they do not depend on me. I'm a soldier, I respect and I listen - of course there is my stamp.
The changes are nice, whether it's on stage or in additions of faces, without this meaning that we remove them all.
"If I feel that people do not want me, I will not stay"
Fully aware of what she wants to do, she states that she can live without television.
"I like the live with all its difficulties, I am very bad at filming. I want to enter the viewer's house and say their Ioanna, their Malescu - because they usually call me by their last name. If I feel that people do not want me, I will not stay. "I know I will never be hungry because I can do other jobs to survive."
I had you for what a hard nut, to put it simply.
I am. But when the door of my house closes, I break. For the first two months, without giving me any samples of my writing, they wrote and said things in public that did not correspond to my reality and hurt me a lot. I never showed it. I have given few answers to things that have offended me and the station.
Such as;
I remember the incident with the show of Iliana Papageorgiou which has now been clarified of course. My issue was not so much with her face as with those who set up the show at the editorial level. In any case, this issue has been resolved and I wish I could meet her up close.
Tell me about the older photos that disappeared from your Instagram. It was said that SKAI imposed it on you.
I heard that too. The station was never busy. They never told me what to do. But when you start in a new condition, you have to be more careful with your public image. It took me a long time to do this because Instagram does not let you erase it all together.
And you opened your hair. It has been said that the channel wanted you to be a platinum blonde.
No, I did it without informing anyone. What has this station suffered! Because I do not want to upset anyone, I did not speak at first, but my image did not satisfy me, I felt that I had to change things. So the first thing I did, like any woman, was blow out my hair. But when you are on TV, you must have updated the mechanisms. I had not considered it an important issue, until they started saying that she was copying Menegaki. I had so many vicious comments on my profile that I said "what I wanted and I did it". If there's one thing I regret most about it, it's the blonde color, which in the end didn't flatter me at all.
But you kept it for a long time and only recently made it darker.
Yes, because I support my choices. If I changed it immediately, they would say "she is not doing well". Suppose I could not go to the hairdresser after due to quarantine. If I did, they would burn me for that too. Until the root reached five fingers. I even heard that! I got to the point of turning off comments on Instagram. Then they said that I changed my hair because I was afraid that the winner of Big Brother would take my place. The curses started, they wrote that I should die and get cancer. This made me feel infected. You have the right not to see me, but not to curse my mother and my dog. And that, you know, with the comments is sticky. I was very upset. There I realized that I have to be very careful what I share with the world and somewhere I locked up. I asked my mother not to send me what was written. As much as I love her, I told her that if she kept sending me what she read about me on the internet, we would never talk again.
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