# Vaffanculo, Andrea Bocelli! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 28, 2020, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaffanculo-andrea-bocelli/916617 "2020-07-28T16:42:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2020, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaffanculo-andrea-bocelli/916617/1 "2020-07-28T16:42:15Z")
Fuck right off the planet; you’re part of the problem. > **[Andrea Bocelli, who had COVID, says lockdown humiliated him](https://apnews.com/article/73d712e4b0cc4d76e1e314d54a4d953f)** > > ROME (AP) — Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli, who recovered from COVID and whose moving Easter performance sought to raise hopes during the pandemic, is striking a different public note, saying Italy’s lockdown made him feel “humiliated and offended” by... > [@](#): > > Bocelli told the conference at the Senate that he resented not being able to leave his home even though he “committed no crime” and revealed, without providing details, that he violated that lockdown restriction. He explained himself just fine, Undersecretary Sileri. > [@](#): > > Bocelli told the conference that at first his children told him to be careful about the virus when he first started having doubts about its severity, “but as time passed, I know lots of people, but I didn’t know anyone who went into intensive care.” 🙄 ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2020, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaffanculo-andrea-bocelli/916617/2 "2020-07-28T18:46:59Z")
And this is why we don’t listen to the opinions of celebrities, even ones we agree with, because their talent or fame, such as it may be, does not give them any particular credential as an authority about anything except, possibly, their specialty (and not always even then). tl;dr – Celebrity says stupid thing, news on the hour.