has been ours plan this weekend: see one after another (better in the company of friends and a generous glass of wine) the six chapters that make up the reality show from Netflix, ‘I’m Georgina’. This “fiction”, because although it is a theoretical “docu” everything seems rehearsed and organized, it is a guilty pleasure In all rules. For many of us Georgina was “Christian’s wife”, but now she is Gio in capital letters. It has become very clear to us: she no longer needs the footballer to be a star in the universe of celebrities.
Georgina introduces herself as a woman who has gone from zero to one hundred: “I know what it is to have nothing and I know what it is to have everything.” From his birth in Argentina to his childhood in Jaca, passing through his stage in Lleida and Madrid, each experience is recounted until reaching his new life as a multimillionaire.
Always accompanied, be it family or friends, Gio defines himself as a “very normal person” and defends not having lost his essence despite his “rise” in the social ladder. In addition, she is very grateful at all times. East reality show has given us great moments that are worth remembering (although yes, here are some other spoilers).
Before moving on to an exhaustive analysis of the most brilliant scenes of this reality show (which are not presented chronologically, only as they have appeared in our mind) we want to clarify something: ‘I am Georgina’ is almost six hours of pure love-hate. Gio has won our hearts thanks to the tenderness he gives off in certain scenes, but we cannot forget that how forced certain situations are, they make credibility lose a lot of steam. And we all know it: if a docuseries is implausible, all the alarms go off.
When he narrates his passage from the bus to the Bugatti
We couldn’t start this pick up otherwise. “I came to work by bus and left by Bugatti” is one of the highlights more powerful. To which it refers? At the beginning of the documentary Georgina explains the first steps of her relationship with Cristiano.
She was a clerk at the Gucci store in Serrano and he was a regular (and very rich) customer. As if Cupid had done his thing, both fell in love when they crossed paths in the store. And yes, from that moment Gio went to work by bus (like all mortals) and returned home in Bugatti (or in any other cool car of CR7). Things in life, wow.
Every minute on screen in his “jet”
We continue talking about means of transport. In this case, from his beloved “jet.” Because yes dears, Gio does not go on Ryanair (nor does he go crazy so that his suitcase does not exceed 10 kg), he goes on his private “jet”. “The jet makes my life a lot easier. If I had to spend three hours in an airport with Cris, I would go crazy, I would prefer not to travel,” she says literally.
A plane in which he travels with all his team and where his love for Iberian meats and potato omelette becomes evident. She already says it non-stop: she is a “very normal” woman.
Watching Georgina eat is a pleasure
If there is something that we especially liked about this series, it is Georgiona’s relationship with food. Far from starving himself and eating only chicken broth, Gio declares himself a lover of Iberian (a confession she shares with Bertín Osborne himself in an epic encounter) and we see her eating potato omelette and other typical dishes of Spanish cuisine. In this aspect, we give a ten to Gio.
The dilemma with Jean Paul Gualtier
Suppose to be a celebrity Y having to choose a dress to step on the red carpet of the ‘Cannes Film Festival’ should not be easy, but Gio lives a drama that is dimensioned to the extreme. In short, Rodríguez has two possibilities: a chocolate brown dress by Gaultier (the winner of the battle) and an emerald green model made exclusively for her.
The “tension” over the election seems to go on for hours and brings out the temper in his agent. Although in the end he opts for the Gaultier, he later wears Ali Karoui’s green dress at the ‘Starlite’ gala (which, by the way, fits him like a glove).
The phrases “Sir, take my fly away” and “I am a citizen of the world”
“Everything” is very normal (note the irony) until the scene where Gio asks a waiter to remove a fly from the table. As we tell it. Rodríguez is with his friends and family at his sister’s pregnancy celebration dinner. Suddenly, a fly lands next to Georgina and she does not hesitate to ask the waiter to shoo it away.
Another of Gio’s wonderful catchphrases states that she feels like a “citizen of the world.” She neither Argentine, nor Spanish, nor Italian. Her reign knows no bounds.
Confuse aristocracy with bureaucracy and have powers of divination
This happens to all of us on a daily basis: we make mistakes when speaking and mix meaningless terms. And yes, absolutely nothing happens. For this reason, when Gio confuses aristocracy with bureaucracy (because he comments that aristocracy reminds him of ‘Aristocrazy’)the woman from CR7 becomes another friend of our gang.
Although Gio can make mistakes when speaking, he defends having “divination powers”. Known as “Georgiology”, Rodríguez guesses the sex of her sister’s baby in a display of connection with a non-palpable world. We are not going to deny that (almost) all of us have had a similar experience.
The meeting with Beatrice Borromeo and Pierre Casiraghi
Another of Gio’s golden moments takes place during the Formula 1 championship in Monaco. Rodriguez visits the big boss Ferrari (with all the fan kit on, of course) and at this moment experiences a magical event: Beatrice Borromeo and her husband, Pierre Casiraghi, appear.
Being a “worldly” woman and crossing paths with royalty generates anecdotes. “He’s a prince or something, isn’t he?”, he comments with his friends after the encounter. Georgina’s innocence in some circumstances manages to “lower” her into the human world.
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