The end of Sálvame was an end to a fourteen-year period of television entertainment. Telecinco lost one of its flagships and viewers, loyal followers of the format, harshly attacked the managers who decided to end it.
Since then, the team members, mainly their talk show hosts and presenters, have not hesitated to speak about the issue loud and clear. One of the latest has been to say what he thinks is Chelo García-Cortés. He has done it on Sofía Cristo’s podcast, Addicts and neurotics, on YouTube.
“I experienced it very badly when they fired us, because we have to publicly acknowledge it: they kicked us out of Telecinco,” Chelo García-Cortés stated most emphatically during his interview with Sofía Cristo on the podcast. Because it was not a normal cancellation, as the journalist explained below.
“We have been a political instrument,” he asserted. “And do you know what they have done by throwing us out on the streets? That those who attacked us now support us, now everyone wants Sálvame to come back,” García-Cortés defended.
“For me, Sálvame was not dirty, it is more dirty that people are used for specific purposes, as is being done on some television right now,” he said most forcefully. “It seems much nastier to me that they call you into an office and tell you: ‘We’re going to give you all the hours on the network, but you have to do I don’t know what,'” the journalist noted.
“I watch some television channels where the classmates have to be still, I don’t. I can move!” García-Cortés continued. And, although “Sálvame is not coming back,” he said, he immediately corrected himself and left the door open to a possible return.
“Well… At the moment we don’t know anything.” Because Chelo is very clear: “They tell me now Save me or go to a set to do what is done now’ and I’m left with Save me.”
