El Hormiguero has become one of the most successful television spaces in the history of television. The program presented by Pablo Motos, and which is broadcast from Monday to Thursday, gathers an average of 2,128,000 viewers every day and a screen share of 15.8%. A figure that gives it a great advantage over its direct competitors.
The access prime time entertainment program began its television career in 2006 and on the Cuatro network. The popularity of the program increased over the years, until in 2011, Atresmedia decided to acquire the rights to the format and Pablo Motos’ space began to be broadcast daily on Antena 3.
The vast majority of viewers know that Pablo Motos, Jorge Salvador and Jorge Ventosa are three of the visible faces of the program and creators of the format. However, very few know Juan Herrera, another of the essential figures of the television program and who was immersed in its creation.
The 69-year-old man has always preferred to stay out of the media spotlight and the media. However, this Thursday, the creator of El hormiguero visited the Cadena Ser Transmite program where he wanted to reveal his complicated state of health. And Pablo Motos’ partner revealed that he has been suffering from cancer for five years.
”I was extremely lucky that a comedian, of course, gave me the gift of participating in an experiment and thanks to immunotherapy I have been fighting and playing tricks for five years, because initially they gave me six months to live,” counted.
Furthermore, the screenwriter confessed that science and humor have been two of the keys to facing this complicated comment. ”Humor is a way to save suffering, and this is not mine, it’s Freud’s, but I love that economic vision that humor is a way to avoid pain,” he asserted. Herrera also revealed that the disease was not yet overcome, but it was controlled and that right now it was in “a maintenance phase.” ”In the early days, without humor, it would have been downright unbearable,” he claimed.
