No one should be forced to get married, but the bullfighter Juan Ortega is reproached for not finishing the job with his girlfriend, Carmen Otte, half-combed after a decade of relationship, and for maintaining absolute silence with his humiliated partner and the open case. to speculations. With Ortega watching the bulls from the sidelines, there are several versions that point to different causes. But at the moment we do not know if this fear of the bullfighter is due to the fact that, like a Julia Roberts character, he was intimidated by saying yes, I want, if he wanted to prevent his girlfriend from future antlers outside the ring, if he sang Lady’s “we were three” Say, if you had a Hanover at your own wedding or all or none of the above.
The wedding was scheduled for twelve noon last Saturday in the church of Santiago de Jerez de la Frontera, attended by a small group of 500 guests who did not have time to find out that the wedding had been cancelled. The pre-wedding was celebrated and there are even videos of the (not so) lovers dancing and kissing hours before the sit-in. In his defense, those who know Ortega say that he is a person of integrity and that, if he backed out at the last moment, he would have his reasons.
Nor is it the first time that something like this has happened in bullfighting circles. A couple invited to Ortega and Otte’s wedding already went through a similar episode two decades ago, although with much more room for maneuver. Twenty days before his wedding in 2003, Curro Romero sent a statement to the media explaining that their wedding was canceled for “undetermined reasons,” and his then fiancée, Carmen Tello, learned from the press that the bullfighter had I was backing out.
By the set day things had already been clarified and an intimate wedding was celebrated in the bullfighter’s house in Espartinas (Seville), and not the massive wedding that had been announced. What scared the right-hander was that his wedding would become a media circus. The first intention was to have a ceremony with 80 guests, but the list grew in a few days to 400, and the bullfighter could not withstand that pressure, the same thing that happened to Mr. Big’s character in Sex and the City.
“Personal reasons” were what Natalia Jiménez, vocalist of La Quinta Estación, cited to cancel her wedding with Antonio Alcol the day before it took place, in 2009. Some time later, he said that he did not know what had happened to the woman. singer who, suddenly, packed his bags and said: “I’m going to Dénia with my parents. See you later”. It turned out to be a “see you forever” and they didn’t speak again. Alcol also told ¡Hola! Mexico that Jiménez woke up early that day to go to the Pozuelo City Hall to suspend the ceremony and to the Casa Mónico restaurant to cancel the banquet and pay the bill.
Her namesake Natalia Verbeke also starred in her own Runaway Bride in 2014 when she decided not to marry chef Jaime Renedo four days before the planned wedding. Apparently, it was family disagreements over the supposed sale of the juicy wedding exclusive that ruined the relationship. The discreet Verbeke did not like his relatives’ plans. Renedo briefly visited covers and sets, but she never exposed his motives publicly.
Another who has never wanted to tell the reasons that led her to cancel her wedding in extremis is the runaway bride par excellence, Julia Roberts. Years before participating in the film, the actress stood up to actor Kiefer Sutherland on the eve of her wedding and she fled to Ireland with a good friend of his, also actor Jason Patric. He was all set for the celebration, he had even ordered a wedding cake in the shape of a Thanksgiving turkey to compensate Sutherland for Roberts not letting him serve a real one during the banquet, which ultimately did not take place. It was an international scandal, but it never harmed the career of the actress, who at the time was 24 years old.
