While the anticipation for his participation in the Sanremo Festival 2026 – which will see her take on the role of co-host, 33 years after the victory with Loneliness in the section New Proposals – Laura Pausini she told herself to the microphones of TG1 Talkstrusting to Giorgia Cardinaletti to have a regret: having discarded Leonardo DiCaprio for a video clip!
“For a video clip some actors proposed me for the role of the male protagonist. I was living in Los Angeles at the time, so everyone was from there. Of the five actors chosen by the director, I rejected one because he wasn't physically my type. Too bad it was Leonardo DiCaprio, but I only discovered this later.”
LAURA PAUSINI ON TG1 TALKS
During the interview with Giorgia Cardinalettithe singer from Solarolo quickly retraced her career, confident that she remembers very little of the period before debut a Sanremo and the resulting success, which has become – over the years – international.
On the other hand, in 1993 Laura was just nineteen years old!
Traveling the world, however, helped her a lot – she explains. Not only to make herself known, but also to come into contact with very different realities from the one in which she grew up.
LAURA PAUSINI: THE RELATIONSHIP WITH SOCIAL MEDIA
Among the many topics covered, at Cardinals there Pausini she also confided that she had taken a “break” from social mediaif we can define it that way.
The reason? The singer explained that she can't help but read everything they write to her.
“I made a drastic choice. I decided not to have social media on my phone. This doesn't mean having removed my pages, because it is still an important channel for those who do my job: a job that can be done also and above all thanks to the fans.
Therefore, I find it correct to continue having a direct relationship. In the last 5/6 years, however, Social media has become a place to vent your frustrations. Then, for goodness sake, most of the comments are positive, but who knows why we end up remembering only the negative ones.”
LAURA PAUSINI co-host at SANREMO 2026
As already mentioned, this year Laura Pausini will return to the Ariston stage as co-host of all five evenings of Festival. But, what will he do specifically?
According to some rumors, in addition to flanking Carlo Conti in hosting, the singer from Romagna will perform to the tune of her greatest hits, and then also present the covers contained in her new album, I Sing 2.
