ERT eliminates Petros Filippidis from the series “Greet my Platanos” | HELLAS

With its announcement, ERT announced that it will remove Petros Filippidis from the series Hello to me, Platanos, which will continue as normal.

ERT announcement:

On the occasion of articles related to the daily television program “Greet me PlatanosERT clarifies that the issue of stopping the series has never been raised, in which dozens of actors and technicians participate and are watched by hundreds of thousands of citizens every day. However, due to the obvious sensitivity that Public Television must show, the actor on whom brand complaints have been filed for control in the Greek Actors Association, as of today he will no longer participate in the filming of the series.

However, according to information from iefimerida.gr, the next 10 episodes, which are scheduled to be screened, have already been filmed and Petros Filippidis participates normally. ERT was concerned about how they would handle this piece, however, with the criterion that if these episodes were not shown, the actors who participated would not be paid, they chose to show themselves normally. Otherwise, the actors of the series would be unpaid for the filming they have already done.

Information about the termination of ERT’s cooperation with Petros Filippidis has been circulating since last week. After the serious complaints filed against the actor at the SEI, the continuation of the cooperation of the state television with the complainant was impossible.

The newspaper Ta Nea reported today that Petros Filippidis would resign, however ERT was the one who cut the actor from the cast, firing him as of today.

What remains to be resolved now is whether the actors of the hit series “Greet my Platanos” will replace Petros Filippidis or adapt the script and skillfully remove the script from the role played by the whistleblower.

End of cooperation with Digea

Meanwhile, also according to “Ta Nea”, it was already an early closure for this protagonist’s collaboration with Digea. Petros Filippidis was the face of the campaign that would consist of a series of spots. The first commercial that aired a while ago on television was withdrawn early last week, while for the next commercials, according to some information, a new person is sought.

The crash report of the three actors in SEI

It is recalled that with their complaint to the SEI, Anna-Maria Papacharalambous, Lena Drosaki and Penelope Anastassopoulou accused Petros Filippidis of insulting sexual dignity and workplace harassment. The three actors describe in detail what they experienced during their collaboration with the supposed actor-director.

The shock complaints of Anna-Maria Papacharalambous, Lena Drosaki and Penelope Anastassopoulou

Anna-Maria Papacharalambous: My anxiety was bordering on terror

As for Anna-Maria Papacharalambous, according to the program, what the actress denounces happened in 2000, when she was 24 years old, in the play “Idiots” by Neil Simon at the Britannia Theater. “The accused has repeatedly committed serious acts of insult to my sexual dignity. And not only.” Taking advantage of the young man my age, my need to work, the fear that he had instilled in me, “says the actress in her complaint, as Aris argued. Kavatzikis and Danae Barka.

According to the presenters of the program, the complainant actress also mentions about Petros Filippidis: I honestly did not know what his next move would be. I was afraid that he was capable of anything, as he had shown me with his actions ”.

The journalists, citing something of what was written in the complaint, also reported that Anna-Maria Papacharalambous describes that every time one of their own was in the theater, in a kiss scene of the show, the accused used violence, with the public . reacting with a scream, disgust. They also stated that the complainant described that every time her then partner was in the theater, the complainant grabbed her by various parts of her body, giving her those urgent kisses with even greater passion.

In her complaint, Anna-Maria Papacharalambous, as transmitted by the presenters of “Pame Danai”, also affirms that when the actress spoke to the producer, he did not seem surprised and said that it would be difficult to replace him, but nevertheless he wanted to leave, he would understand.

Lena Drosaki: I froze, I didn’t expect it to get to this point

Regarding Lena Drosaki’s complaint, they described in the “Pame Danai” program, reading excerpts: “In 2007 she was a 24-year-old student, they visited the filming of a well-known television series starring the complainant. She highlighted her and began to approaching her, as the complaint states, “somehow began to change her behavior, to sexually harass me, at first in a discreet way, then in an increasingly inappropriate way. At some point he began to speak openly, they threatened that if we did not meet, “I will take care not to pass the ministry exams as a student.”

And Aris Kavatzikis went on to describe: “The day Lena was at the Art Theater on Phrynichou Street for the ministry exams, she saw him in front of her. “I froze, I did not expect it to get to this point. When it was my turn and I went up on stage to be examined, I saw the complainant enter the theater and address the jury, greeting him warmly, speaking warmly with his members. When he turned to see me on stage, he made the characteristic gesture that means “Did you see what I was saying?” “I did not pass the examination of the ministry, although I want to be absolutely clear: I do not know if this is due to the actions of the complainant or to the fact that my performance was undesirable mainly because of the disturbance it had caused me. ”

Then they referred to another fragment of the complaint about what happened in 2018 at the Katia Dandoulaki theater, when she was invited to act in the play “Crime on the Orient Express.” “Lena Drosaki considers that everything is over, Mrs. Dandoulaki reports, she is convinced and stays on the program,” said the presenters after reading the actress’s complaint and then citing excerpts from the complaint: individually, sometimes in front of the entire troupe . At some point, all this unacceptable and offensive behavior reached its climax, when one day he verbally attacked my colleague Lefteris Zampetakis and me with incredible intensity, apparently considering that we have a love story, which was not the case. The rehearsal was stopped and Katia Dandoulaki announced to Petros Filippidis that she would no longer need his services. ”

Penelope Anastassopoulou: When he understood that I was uncomfortable, this probably excited him more.

In her complaint, Penelope Anastassopoulou referred for the first time to her first contact with Petros Filippidis, in 2008, when she was 25 years old and had just finished the Art Theater and went to an audition, to a collaboration meeting. Penelope Anastassopoulou, based on what they reported on the Mega show, states in the complaint: “The complainant asked me to meet him at night at the theater where he worked and was a fan. When I got to the theater, the complainant greeted me, told me to go to his dressing room, there was no one else in the theater, which impressed me. He closed the dressing room and I started to feel uncomfortable. ”

According to the presenters, the then Penelope Anastassopoulou “describes an insult to sexual dignity and that she experienced strange and borderline behaviors from the whistleblower, such as” sudden outbursts of anger, verbal insults and more. When he realized that it made him more uncomfortable. ”

As described in the program based on the complaint, Penelope Anastassopoulou at some point collaborated in the theater in 2010 with the accused, after having received guarantees from his environment, when the accused once again insulted his sexual dignity.

Filippidis’ admission to the hospital.

It should be noted that Petros Filippidis was admitted to the hospital last week with symptoms of a stroke, from where he was discharged last Saturday. Some sources said that before his presentation, on the one hand, there was tension over rumors about an upcoming complaint (he had even sent an extrajudicial precautionary decision not to mention his name in unknown cases, a move that was considered by many as a goal in his own door and certainly had the opposite effect since his name immediately began to circulate on social networks), on the other hand, some information speaks of great intensity in the filming of the ERT serial with his colleague. information that has not been confirmed.