Friends inside and outside the studies, Ana María Braga says goodbye to Tom Veiga | National newspaper

This Monday morning was unlike any other morning in the last 24 years. Without laughter, with tears and sadness, without Louro José. “We of the Louro family, and you are part of it, we are in mourning, because Louro … An irony, really, none? To have gone the day before All Souls’, declared Ana María.

The pain was likened to the loss of a child. “I got up this morning and I was wondering how I was going to get here and say ‘good morning’ to you, because it hurts so much. And really, like a mother who loses a child. A partner, that your child is a partner, that you are together, that you see being born. And that was it ”, says the presenter.

Passing in front of the cameras and starting the day without the games and the affection of the partner required strength. “I couldn’t help being here, broken inside, and leaving everyone who loves Louro without that last tribute this morning,” he said.

The history of the association began with Ana’s idea of ​​sharing the stage with a parrot doll, which did not yet have an owner. The talent of Tom Veiga, who was a production assistant, was discovered by chance.

“This doll was thrown on a table in the corner, I said, ‘Take this doll to piss off this class,’ and then I took the doll, put it like I am here, on a table that had a side: ‘UMBRELLA, do this, do that, I don’t know what. your is not doing well, hein? ‘and then people laughed, found it funny. Ana was in the back, which was a glass partition, and she was already laughing, and that’s when it started. Then she came in, said: ‘Post, morning you Louro will do it on the show, ‘I said:’ No, I won’t, ” Wow, ” I won’t, ‘”actor Tom Veiga told Memória Globo.

It was and never left the life of Ana María Braga. Together, inside and outside of studies. “We were all the same. It happened to him, it happened to me. And if it happened to me, it happened to him. It was good … We were confidants of each other and they told me things that he did not talk to anyone, no matter how much people thought he knew about his life. And the same thing happened to me and him, ”said Ana María Braga.

Mother, son and a whole family who met every morning to broadcast “Mais Você”. Tom’s last show was on Friday (30).

Today, this family, which was missing a piece, suffered the dismissal. Cameras, assistants, everyone used the photo of Tom Veiga very close to the heart and had pain and nostalgia in the words of each colleague.

“My life partner, my brother, this beautiful family that gave us” Mais Você “, I love you, did you see?” Said the cook Jimmy McManis.

“He was a simple person with us, he shared that moment of breakfast and, from that moment, at the beginning of the day, he was already trying to make our day special and make us feel good with a game, trying to catch the last sip of coffee or complain of cheese bread. Anyway, that’s how I’ll remember it, ”he told reporter Juliane Massaoka.

“And I will take you, Tom, in my heart as a generous person, good people, in a good mood, positive, incredible, a wonderful professional,” said producer Carolina Tancredi.

It was on the bench of the “Mais Você” studio, in Rio, where Tom Veiga played Louro José, most of the time of this alliance with Ana Maria Braga. The actor was hiding, looking at everything, making the parrot shine. And even without showing up, it has become one of the great morning pleasures of an entire country. It was also from there that he called Ana, many times, “Namaria”, a loving way, which he already misses.

It will be painful not to celebrate the birthday of everyone’s friend, the friend of always, the friend who deserved all the applause.