The latest installment of I don’t know what you’re talking about, the new program presented by Mercedes Milá and Inés Hernand, brought to light one of the most controversial interviews carried out by the veteran journalist on TVE. The one she made to Francisco Umbral, and which has nothing to do with that statement that went down in history of “I have come here to talk about my book”, broadcast on Antena 3.
On this occasion, Milá recalled the writer’s time on Buenas Noches, in 1983, where the writer began to talk about masturbation openly. As they explained yesterday on the program, those statements did not create problems for Umbral, but for Milá. A situation that the Catalan resolved with a lot of humor last night.
“Umbral was a born provocateur and, furthermore, he believed in the beauty of the universe. And look at him. I’m not surprised that he masturbated, if he was in love with himself,” Mercedes Milá began by saying after seeing her image next to the writer.
“In fact, this interview caused you a bit of a queue. We have recovered a headline from the Spanish Association of Television Viewers,” said his colleague Inés Hernand, who went on to read a statement from the time.
“The Spanish Association of Television Viewers publicly tells Mercedes Milá, from the program Buenas noche, that she reserves her interviews like the one she did with Francisco Umbral for the privacy of her bedroom. The sexual intimacies of the interviewees do not interest us,” he intoned. Hernand.
“And much less if they are treated with the language and bad taste that their false assessment of sexual freedoms revealed in the aforementioned program. We viewers deserve greater respect,” he continued. These words provoked a reaction from those present, both from the public and from the guests Javier Gurruchaga and Rossy de Palma.
Then, Milá got up from her chair and got on her knees. “I’m going to apologize. Who said this? A right-wing newspaper?” she said. “No, the association of spectators of their dead,” Hernand answered.
“You asked me before if there were criticisms that were difficult to swallow. Of course, at the time, the criticism must have worried me, but now I’m bursting out laughing,” Milá snapped. In fact, the presenter made it clear why things like this happened in those years.
“But what country did we have? You don’t know that. Spain was like that, like that little piece. You have seen the interview, he talks about masturbation, I don’t ask him anything at all. Let the television viewers’ association of his country write that grandmother… Well, that was Spain, boys and girls. And that’s why we do this program,” the presenter concluded.
