Meigas: are there any, are there any?

I saw a woman combing her long hair looking out her window: it was a meiga sending the evil eye to someone, no doubt!

Did it bother you?

Hours later I suffered a car accident. You don’t play with these things.

You have short hair.

For convenience. Paolo Vasile told me: “Your bangs are a sculpture.” And so he stayed.

It looks sculpted, yes.

And my time takes me.

Alfonso Guerra might say something to him.

He pointed out Yolanda Díaz’s hairstyle because before being in the Government she had disheveled hair. I would like to ask her if she combs her hair for pleasure or out of servitude to power.

Do it in And now Sonsoles, your program on Antena 3: is it going well?

It grows healthily, now one year old. I’m looking to differentiate myself from TardeAR and it’s hard! It seems like… we’re elbowing our heels.

Against Ana Rosa Quintana.

They are pizzas with similar ingredients, and what is different is the waitresses who serve them.

What do you like about your competitor?

Kike is good, his answerable nephew.

Well, this collaborator has called you a “planetary dwarf” and your aunt laughs.

Oh really? Is that what they call me? What a great television innovation to refer to the competition! A planetary innovation.

You have just won the Planeta award and that can cause a lot of envy.

It is giving me a lot of satisfaction, despite painful gossip: they have said that I wrote this novel on request… And I have been writing it for years without thinking about awards! With stories heard in Galicia.

Folletinescas?

They would make for a television serial. I am compensated by readers’ comments.

Share some here.

A woman, at a book signing, told me: “Dedicate it to my husband, who just died, and I’m going to read it aloud to him.”

That’s impressive.

Women are the ones who read. If women one day stop reading, the novel will die.

Women star in his novel.

Strong women, the novel came out… feminist? Oh, I want to coin another word.

Another word for feminism?

Yes, because feminism has become tinged with confrontation of the sexes… and I don’t identify with that at all: women and men should cooperate, rather than confront each other.

Has anything else hurt you, Sonsoles?

They have said that my agreement with Atresmedia included winning the Planeta award…

And there was some harsh literary criticism.

A certain Jordi Desgracia says that I reduce the novel genre to the underworld…

Let’s respect freedom of criticism.

But the writer is me, and it concerns and affects me. My balm are my readers.

And his novel, the best-selling of 2023.

The best compliment as a writer has been said to me by several readers, it is what matters most to me: “I had stopped reading and I have started reading again thanks to your novel!”

Bah, that’s because you’re on TV, some disdainful person will tell you.

Blessed TV, then! I bless the TV: it allows me to enter homes, and from there I take people to read novels. Glad to hear it!

Her friend Queen Letizia will have helped somewhat, too.

Oh, that… That tastes bad to me.

Because?

She read that bad review, decided to help me, and came without warning. If she had known, she would have fixed me up a little more!

How do you know each other?

We became friends almost 25 years ago, working together in the CNN news desk. She’s my friend…period.

And a friend is a friend.

We help us. You will never have seen a photo of us together: we preserve this friendship out of the public spotlight. But now…

All the press on it… And so we saw how he dedicated his book to “Let”.

That’s what our friends call her, Let, just as we call another friend “la chocho.”

If Ana Rosa seems to be rather anti-Sanchista, what is Sonsoles?

I? Of the street. I refuse to have in my program a chicken-coop gathering based on hackneyed partisan arguments.

What does your father, Don Fernando Ónega, a distinguished journalist, advise you?

He is self-demanding and very demanding of me: he prevents me from relaxing. My father has dedicated his life to journalism and today he regrets not having dedicated more time to his daughters!

What is your big dream, Sonsoles?

I have small hopes, like now, for example, expanding my library. But I don’t have big dreams. I live from day to day.

What would you like to teach your children?

I will be happy if they don’t sell my books on Wallapop.