Orestes Barbero has publicly reappeared several days after finishing his long journey as a contestant on Pasapalabra. The man from Burgos said goodbye to the Antena 3 contest after the victory of his eternal rival, Rafa Castaño, who won the biggest jackpot in the program’s history on March 16 during prime time.
“I feel perfectly. With much more joy for the tranquility that I will gradually recover,” Orestes wrote through his social networks. The former Pasapalabra contestant would have received “quite a few messages of concern”, so he wanted to reassure his most faithful followers with these words.
However, it has been his subsequent statements that have caused all kinds of reactions. Barbero has decided to “turn the page completely for a season after this stage” in the contest, for which he has declined to conduct any type of interview. He only spoke a day later for Castilla y León television and “only as a favor to a great personal friend who works there”, as Orestes himself has assured.
The Espejo público program, also on Antena 3, has echoed the words of the Burgos about the treatment that has been made of that single interview. Orestes has accused the media of falling “into the baseness of misrepresenting a few sentences from a much longer interview” to create “a sensational story that would ensure the expansion of clickbait.”
The presenter of the space, Susanna Griso, has been blunt with Orestes’ words and the interest of the media in his life after Pasapalabra. “You have been on television for a year and a half. I think there is also an unwritten contract that if you have been on the most successful television program every night, retiring with that silence gives rise to speculation about your state of health later. cheer up,” he assured.
In the presenter’s opinion, this confusion would have been avoided if the contestant “had given an interview with total normality” to talk about how he is currently. “Why so much secrecy? What do you have to hide?” Griso wondered, to later make a direct request to Orestes: “Less victimhood.”
Finally, the host of Espejo público has tried to downplay the matter and make it clear that her words are not in a personal capacity against the former participant of Pasapalabra: “I’m telling you because it is advice from love, of those of us who have been a little longer on television and we know that these things work that way”, he concluded.
