Overview
- Pausini confirms she will co-conduct the Festival di Sanremo with Carlo Conti and reiterates she will not return to the competition as a contestant.
- She plans to showcase selections from the covers project Io canto 2 at the festival, with the album rolling out now.
- Pausini says her Milan–Cortina 2026 opening ceremony appearance at San Siro will be performed in playback for technical reasons.
- On February 13, she and Conti will accompany the Sanremo roster to the Quirinale for an audience with President Sergio Mattarella.
- Responding to recent friction, she says Gianluca Grignani has not answered her outreach over credits and lyric changes, defends the French cover of Marco Mengoni’s hit, and states she would attend Eurovision even with Israel competing.