Ana Rosa Quintana is one of the longest-serving and most recognized presenters on television in Spain. Located at the same professional level as María Teresa Campos and inheriting her title of Queen of the Mornings, this last season she returned to the afternoons thanks to TardeAR, Telecinco’s big bet to reform its television schedule after finishing with Sálvame. However, opinions have been very polarized.
The start of the project has been plagued with holes and controversies along the way, but the presenter and her team have moved forward without major complications. Often, the comments made by Ana Rosa or any of her collaborators have generated controversy on different platforms, a fact that was repeated this Thursday afternoon. Furthermore, it has been in relation to a controversy that dates back to May 2023.
“I grew up in Usera, in a working-class neighborhood, before it was Chinatown. I have three children from Madrid. I live and enjoy my city, because this city is everyone’s home. That’s where the cool thing must come from, my father’s family came from Calle Mayor, I have three children from Madrid. I live and enjoy my city, because this city is a welcome home,” were the words he spoke after receiving the Madrid Gold Medal on the San Isidro festival.
The communicator’s comparison created controversy and left displeasure in many places, particularly social media users who charged against her, although she responded to these complaints with equal forcefulness. “I was racist because I said Chinatown. Hey, excuse me, what is the name of the neighborhood in New York, London or Paris? ”She asked herself in an interview with Carlos Herrera at COPE.
“Usera, which is the neighborhood where I grew up, has been granted 200,000 euros of European funds to put up the doors with the lanterns, they already have the statue of the panda, and there is the Virgin of China. But this is not Chinatown, because they are some hicks who have not even really gone to the neighborhoods, who in the end have all voted in the north,” she insisted, before revisiting her comments this Thursday afternoon on her program.
“Sorry, I love Chinese people because among other things I’m from Usera and I’m half Chinese. Every time I talk about the Chinese, the world falls on me. By the way, Usera is true that it is Chinatown, it is multicultural, it is wonderful,” he reacted after watching a video taken from social networks, in which a person tried a trick to remove stains from clothing using tape.
