The presenter enjoyed the privacy of his home, where he worked, exercised and even washed the dishes.
“I like tranquility. I’m a hermit. I leave the house, I go to SBT. I leave SBT, I go to my house,” Silvio Santos told Record in April 2016.
The most popular television presenter and one of the richest men in Brazil did not like to walk. He spent most of his time in his villa in Morumbi, a neighborhood in the south of São Paulo.
He had an office there. He swam in the indoor pool in the basement. He also liked to work out on the treadmill in the gym.
His main free time was on the couch in front of the TV, when he devoured series and attractions from North American broadcasters that could inspire ideas for SBT programming.
The colonial-style property was the scene of a crime: the bandit who had kidnapped Patrícia Abravanel and fled from the police broke into the house and held the artist at gunpoint for almost 8 hours. The surrender came after long negotiations accompanied by the broadcasters.
Silvio could travel anywhere on the planet, but he invariably went to Celebration, a small town south of Orlando, Florida, near the Disney parks.
In a white wooden house, similar to a movie set, he rested. Sometimes he washed the dishes after the dinner prepared by his wife, the soap opera author Íris Abravanel.
Even during his stay in the United States, the artist preferred the comfort of home rather than ‘tourism’ in shopping malls and restaurants.
Dreams of expensive consumption? Show of wealth? No, Silvio Santos has not spent in proportion to his R$ 1.6 billion fortune nor has he shown his economic power.
“I always thought the best way to live was as a middle-class citizen,” he told SBT in August 2011.
Source: Terra
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