The last hours of Manuel Cortés have been anything but simple. The son of Raquel Bollo and Chiquetete, already a former contestant on ‘Survivientes 2023’, was forced to leave Honduras due to his health complications. It was a difficult but necessary decision, given how his intestinal pain could lead to much more serious problems. Now that he is back in Spain, he showed his disappointment with the sad end of the adventure.
Cortés has declared a deep discontent with the way in which everything has ended, especially with everything related to his anatomy. “I am quite sad. Sad to have to abandon the most beautiful adventure of my life. I feel angry with myself that my body has not been able to respond the way it had to, â€were his words after a hard and eternal week of unknowns, until the doctors’ decision was made known.
His desire to continue competing was latent, and he stated that he would have continued in Honduras if he had the medical approval, even knowing that his body was perhaps not in the best of its conditions. He also had time to describe the hardest part of the reality show: “You are very hungry, people outside think they are feeding you or giving you blessed glory from behind, and I want to make it very clear that this is a super professional contest.”
Precisely hunger and his desire for competitiveness, ensuring that he was too demanding of himself in the first weeks, gave him an incredible physical change. Between the tanned skin and the luxuriance of the beard, the loss of muscle mass did not go unnoticed. His sides became much more marked and his arms became more languid, slender. A sample of how hard ‘Survivors’ really is.
A harshness that Cortés had to endure first hand, after being evacuated from the beach of Cayos Cochinos up to two times, the last one last week. According to the singer himself, his body stopped responding to him and he was not feeling well, despite the good treatment of the program’s medical team. Finally, the decision was made for him to abandon the adventure and return to Spain. News that left him devastated.
According to the medical report, Cortés’s body had “an accumulation of feces in the colon area,” which resulted in stomach and muscle pain that prevented him from performing tasks normally. After all the tests and analyzes carried out, leaving Honduras would allow him to significantly improve his ailments, despite having to put an end to a participation that he was fully enjoying.
