Follow here (if you want): / evan_gian Guest on the MEGA show "Smile Again!" Sotiris Tsafoulias met with the presenter Sissy Christidou on the morning of Sunday 28-01-2024, a few days after the uproar caused by the statements of Panos Vlachos that the media have a tendency to smear everything beautiful. Sotiris Tsafoulias, who directs the new series "17 Threads", in which Panos Vlachos stars, took a stand and commented on both the actor's infamous statement and the reactions he caused in the panels of the shows in the previous days. The director initially commented that just as Panos Vlachos "sacked" the media, so a broadcast journalist "sacked" the director and the rest of the cast, after he allegedly stated that "the journalists should have lowered their microphones and said 'hire we you and your turn'". When asked what he thought when he heard Panos Vlachos give this specific answer to journalists, he said: "I said 'we're done, it's over'." And I didn't say it when he said the first sentence, because the reporters kept asking questions. And while they asked another 5-6 questions, a journalist stood on the statement about 'getting dirty' and there I said 'we're done'". And he added: "I couldn't stand, nor do anything, because on the other hand it was a night with 1000 people, I enter the hall and happen to find my parents who, with the rehearsals and everything, I had to see for a month and a half, with people were waiting and these guys come and tell me that if you're not in the backdrop in five minutes we're leaving because we have to go somewhere else. And I say, 'Guys, if we're not that important and you have something more important, because I just came in, go somewhere else.'" Continuing, Sotiris Tsafoulias spoke of an insulting question from the journalists' side, as he said, "when a man has lost 10 kilos of muscle mass, he takes horse riding, shoemaking and lyre lessons every day and you tell him 'we have 5 minutes and we're gone' and the first question you ask him is tell us a few words about your role and you ask me what the series is about, it's very insulting [...] And even if I accept that the question is being asked about the people, that it's not that 'we don't see you in front of us and we're just filling a program, but the people don't know', then Panos and Giorgos Dalaras probably didn't say that to these children, he addressed us who sit in the highest chairs. I don't know what bothered him, it might have been a lot accumulated, the resentment and the pain." Sotiris Tsafoulias became a "shield" for Panos Vlachos, saying afterwards that "he is a very sensitive creature with a high degree of empathy who does not care if I have treated him well, if he sees me wronging you, my Sissy, he will hang me on the pegs. Panos has done one of the best shows of the last decades, which is always sold out, no one has dealt with the issue, until a month ago when an article came out that he broke up, the article is still uploaded and because it is confirmed I am telling you that is not the case. She is in his relationship and it is fine. I don't know what could have triggered a build-up of grief."