2023 was a very hard year for Jorge Javier Vázquez. The communicator had a really bad time when the new leadership of Mediaset España decided to surprisely cancel Sálvame, a program dedicated to the tabloid press that he had been presenting for more than a decade on Telecinco.
After a few months of uncertainty, fear, disappointment and insecurity, Belén Esteban’s friend returned to the small screen with Cuentos Chinos, a program that Telecinco placed in prime time access to try to combat the success of spaces like El Anthill, among others.
Unlike other television projects, the network decided to eliminate said space after receiving bad audience data for two weeks, so Vázquez suffered a new blow that he tried to accept with the greatest possible professionalism.
After said ‘failure’, Vázquez took advantage of the time and went on vacation to disconnect from media pressure for a while. He did not appear before the media again until he attended the presentation of Pedro Sánchez’s book, Tierra Firma, as host.
In his blog for the magazine Lecturas, the Catalan philologist has acknowledged that he has not started the year on the right foot and has explained that he has been ill since December 26. Like thousands of people in our country, Vázquez caught the coronavirus last holiday. ”He has left me annihilated,” the communicator explained while explaining that he has been locked in his house for almost two weeks.
During this time, the presenter of Survivors has had time to watch some series and reflect on the passage of time, age and old age: ”After fifty you enter a no-man’s territory: closer to sixty than to forty. “They try to sell you products that smell like mothballs when what your body asks of you is to enjoy it and not embalm it.”
Vázquez has used the space of the heart magazine to talk about the tribute that RTVE paid to the mother of Terelu Campos and Carmen Borrego. Although he did not go into evaluating the content of the space, Jorge Javier has highlighted that María Teresa Campos was always above the companies that told her ‘no’ at the end of her career: ”She wanted to continue but she couldn’t. Does not matter. “It’s not the most important thing in her career.”
”The essential thing is his legacy. The deep love and respect for his work. His tireless desire to fight. That way of making television that you have or you don’t have. She, undoubtedly, had it,’ he stated in the text.
