Playback ’94] Before her relationship with Jean Alesi was revealed, Goto Kumiko was spotted and photographed “secretly watching F1” in Monaco.
What did “FRIDAY” report 10, 20, and 30 years ago? Playback Friday” takes a look back at topics that were popular at the time. This time, we will look back at the “Exclusive! Gokumi’s “Already an Adult,” as seen on a top-secret trip to Monaco” from 30 years ago in the June 17, 1994 issue.
In 1987, Goto Kumiko created the “Gokumi boom,” which ushered in the “beauty boom,” and her nickname “Gokumi” was chosen as the winner of that year’s “New Word and New Words Award. This magazine found her in an unexpected place. (Descriptions in parentheses are taken from past articles.)
Relaxed, with her legs crossed vigorously.
We met an unexpected person at an unexpected place. The place was the spectator’s seats of the F1 Monaco Grand Prix. The person watching the race with her legs crossed in a relaxed manner is Goto Kumiko (20 years old at the time), the “original beautiful girl”.
In Japan, she is always surrounded by a staff of close to 10 people, but at this time there was only one older woman by her side, who appeared to be her escort. She had just finished an NHK TV drama a while ago and was in the middle of a nearly month-long vacation. It seems that she had been enjoying herself a lot here in Monaco, and the article reports the following.
She was hanging out in the audience, perhaps because she felt comfortable not having her face known, and she was hanging out here and there. It is unfortunate that she did not have any male friends, but she did show a “surprising true face” that cannot be seen in Japan, such as “I saw her after the race, but her makeup was darker than what I saw on TV” (one of the Japanese guests). Well, Gokumi is 20 years old, so I guess she will never be a “pretty girl” forever.
The combination of Gokumi and F1 was also quite surprising at the time.
I had no idea that Gokumi was such an F1 fan that he went all the way to Monaco. I heard that he has always loved cars, but he was so enthusiastic that he would lean forward when a Ferrari passed in front of him while watching a race, so I guess he is a true fanatic. For this year’s Monaco Grand Prix, Fuji Television appointed Honami Suzuki as a special reporter, but next year, there will be no more doubts about who to choose. Right?
Now that we know that Gokumi announced her relationship with French F1 racer Jean Alesi in 1995 and started a de facto marriage in Paris in 1996, the combination of her and F1 is not surprising or anything.
It is said that they first met at the 1993 F1 Japanese Grand Prix and started dating a little later, so she may have rushed to Monaco at that time to support her boyfriend. Incidentally, Allegri belonged to Ferrari at that time, which she was leaning forward to support in the article.
She has become a mother of two boys and a girl, and although her celebrity lifestyle is occasionally reported, for a long time she was a “visionary actress” who triggered the creation of the “National Beauty Pageant. However, she had been a “phantom actress” for a long time.
However, when director Yoji Yamada begged her to appear in a film, she made her first film appearance in 23 years in the 1919 film “Otoko wa Tsuraiyo. In January of this year, she returned to TV dramas for the first time in 30 years with the special drama “Face” (TV Asahi), in which she also played the role of a mother for the first time. In the same drama, she starred opposite Takei Emi (30), a former contestant in the “National Beauty Contest,” and her beauty that has remained unchanged despite her age was the talk of the town.
In the 1980s, Gokumi’s free-spirited comments became famous as “Gokumi’s words. Her way of life is still alive and well as she continues to follow the path she believes in.
