The relationship between José Manuel Parada and Pablo Sebastián is quite complicated. Both worked together for many years and shared all kinds of moments and experiences. The main project for which the audience remembers them is the Cine de barrio program, a space in which Parada was the presenter and Sebastián the pianist.
Although for years they showed complicity and good vibes in front of the cameras, the relationship between the two did not end well after the musician left the Spanish Television space to go to Telecinco. After more than two decades of anger, the Mediaset Fiesta program announced on July 16 that they had reconciled.
Forgiveness came in a most baroque setting: the funeral of Carmen Sevilla. The former friends talked about what happened years ago and decided to bury the hatchet and give themselves another chance. “I worked with him for 15 years,” said the Argentine very emotional after making peace.
A week later, on Sunday July 23, the musician was going to be the first guest of the new Parada section on the program presented by Emma García: Parada en el tiempo. In this block of interviews, the Galician will speak with different characters in a relaxed and casual conversation. The surprise came when they announced that the pianist had declined the invitation.
“There was going to be a definitive reconciliation live, but he has refused to come. He does not want to stage that reconciliation,” Frank Blanco explained before the astonished look of José Manuel Parada. “Has he repented? Crocodile tears? I believed the reconciliation,” explained the Galician without knowing very well what to say.
”Two do not quarrel if one does not want to. I am in this world to seek peace and tranquility. I was surprised that you declined the invitation. When the program ended, I was talking to him. He told me that he fully trusted me and that we prepared the songs that we wanted to sing in today’s section,” Parada explained somewhat anguished while Frank Blanco told him that they might be facing “the shortest reconciliation in history.”
Fiesta contacted the musician from Argentina by phone, who did not dedicate very nice words to his ex-partner: “How can a person make friends with someone turning him green? People on the street tell me: ‘What kind of reconciliation is that? If this man has turned you green on television’, how do you eat that?”
In addition, he also took advantage of the contact with the program to make it clear that he expects a public apology from Parada for all the damage he has done to him for years and expressed his opinion about the presenter and his supposed sadness at the death of Carmen Sevilla: “He did not stop criticizing her in life.”
