On June 23, Sálvame, one of the programs with the highest audience in the history of television in Spain, said goodbye to its viewers after more than fourteen years on the air. During all that time, the format managed to change the way of doing entertainment and showed a new way of creating content in the realm of the heart. The format fell off the Telecinco grid, but made an unexpected leap to Netflix. Many of the collaborators were saddened by the end of an era, but some of them were starting a new stage in the streaming content giant. This is the case of Belén Esteban, who has recently spoken out about her employment situation after the end of the program.
The future of the workers, collaborators and presenters of Sálvame was left up in the air when the news came to light last spring that the leadership of Mediaset had decided to do without the format. It soon became known that Netflix had opted for a reality show that would have some of the most emblematic collaborators as protagonists: María Patiño, Kiko Hernández, Kiko Matamoros, Terelu Campos, María Patiño, Belén Esteban, Chelo García-Cortés and Víctor Sandoval.
After several weeks of recordings in some of the best-known programs of the gossip and current events in the United States or Mexico, the collaborators returned to Spain. Precisely during the last hours, Esteban revealed by an oversight that the program will premiere this fall. “Our program comes out in October. It’s been a few days of pure fantasy. I can’t say anything, but people have to see it,” confirmed the ‘Princess of the people’ to the media present at the premiere of the film My loneliness has wings .
In addition, in the last hours, the television company has ruled on his current employment situation, after the end of Sálvame and the recordings with Netflix. “I’m not unemployed,” said the woman from Paracuellos del Jarama. “For the people who are happy: they have not fired me. I am from ‘The TV Factory’, and I will continue to be from ‘The TV Factory’. And by the way, there will be little surprises,” said Esteban, leaving glimpse that maybe soon there will be new projects for her. “I just have to tell people not to miss Netflix in October, that they are going to see a fantasy,” he sentenced.
On the other hand, the ex of Jesulín de Ubrique also spoke about the return of Jorge Javier Vázquez to television, absent from the screen since May due to medical leave. “I am very happy with Jorge’s return, he is the best presenter on the network,” said Esteban. It should be remembered that Chinese Tales, the new format hosted by the Catalan, will be broadcast next season starting at 10 p.m., in direct competition with El Hormiguero by Pablo Motos on Antena 3, leader of the time slot.