• Anniversary A breast and many "boys, boys, boys": 30 years of the Sabrina Salermo scandal on New Year's Eve

One of the most crucial events in the recent history of Spain occurred on New Year's Eve 1987 -and we could even argue that it was the definitive consolidation of the Transition-: Sabrina Salerno appeared in the TVE special after the bells that gave way to 1988, and for about three seconds, while jumping to the rhythm of the song Boys, She exposed one of her generous breasts, which escaped from the light bra like a freshly caught eel in her hands.

Who is old enough to remember it, relates the event with an epic almost typical of Virgilio -or a post of Forocoches-, in the sense that that was the awakening, or the conclusive proof, of many heterosexualities, that concept today almost as threatened as the Iberian lynx and under the scrutiny magnifying glass of the Ministry of Equality. Sabrina, still a teenager and embodying in her Greco-Latin profile the mathematics of Fibonacci and an avatar of Aphrodite, had entered as an exhalation in the European pop market that same year, with the publication of the single Boys (Summertime love), and the thing was revolutionized not so much by the video clip, in which she went out in a white bikini in a pool typical of an August in Torremolinos, but for his appearances on television, with the very short shorts, the shrunken leather jacket, the thin fabric body and the wobble of his Italian anatomy celebrating the last minutes of glory of spaghetti disco fashion.

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She had been discovered a year earlier by record producer Claudio Cecchetto, who was looking for a new sexy figure to follow in the footsteps of other ephemeral stars of danceable and hyper-commercial pop of the time – a new Spagna, a new Laura Brannigan – and met an effusive and fleshy young woman, a historical hinge between Sophia Loren and Monica Bellucci. who had been crowned in 1984 as Miss Lido and Miss Liguria. They recorded Sexy Girl, then came Boys, the round on European television, and then the fugitive nipple. Sabrina thus went down in history.

The mythical tale of the unruly breast is not unique to Spanish television, however. In Italy, as far as is known, something similar also happened in another playback for the RAI -although with fewer seconds of exposure, there was an almost subliminal act and in TVE three long seconds-, although it is true that it was in Spain where Sabrina exploited with eagerness her sudden status of sex symbol, reaching up to 12 covers of Interviú, if the accounts do not fail. It was a time when commercial pop internationally began a career of hypersexualization of prefabricated stars – it was when the first Kylie Minogue emerged in Australia, and also the fashion of ladies with wide upper perimeter, such as Samantha Fox, Stallone's ex, Brigitte Nielsen, and that hyperbolic Polish named Danuta Lato-, And like all fashions, it was worn out soon. Sabrina continued her career, but never had a hit as Boys.

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This March 15 turns 55 years old and is still active. It is something that her fans and the curious already knew – she has performed several times in Spain, in parties remember the 80s – but that does not stop attracting attention because there are not many differences between the Sabrina of now and the one who swept with 19 years. He shows a sharper face, the result of different steps through the operating room, but he stays in shape -on his Instagram account he sometimes publishes videos practicing pole-dancing-, and above all he keeps the current account at full capacity.

Contrary to what is sometimes explained, Sabrina was for a brief period of time a great money-making machine, which took Germany, Austria, South America and, in recent years, also Russia. He sold 25 million records and from that great cake fell some crumbs that he knew how to invest wisely. Currently she continues to release songs, but what she is most dedicated to is the hotel business, thanks to the influence of her husband, also businessman Enrico Monti, whom she met in 1994 and with whom she has a son born in 2006, Luca Maria.

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