Today marks 41 years since one of Isabel Pantoja’s happiest moments. On April 30, 1983, the tonadillera and the most famous bullfighter of the time, Paquirri, forever sealed their love story in a religious ceremony held in the Sevillian church of Nuestro Padre Jesús del Gran Poder. A link that starred in hundreds of headlines and generated great fervor throughout society.
On the occasion of this very special anniversary, the Sonsoles Ónega program interviewed on Tuesday afternoon one of the most important people in the bullfighter’s life and who knew him best, Antonio Palacios, alias Tito, Paquirri’s driver for 20 years. .
Regarding the memories he had of the high-profile wedding, the interviewee revealed that he was not at the wedding because “he refused to go.” ”Paco invited me, but I didn’t go,” he clarified. The presenter, who had been amazed by his words, asked him the reason for his decision and he responded bluntly: ”I didn’t like Pantoja. I never liked Pantoja and even less now.
Even so, Antonio Palacios assured that the bullfighter was very happy and happy about the wedding. ”He introduced her to me in Cantora. We were there all day and then I left for my town. He told me “I’m going to marry Pantoja” and I told him to do well, “said the guest.
According to the bullfighter’s driver, the couple’s love story began when Paquirri began to follow the tonadillera’s professional career. ”He fell in love with her, according to him. I never bought it,’ he insisted. Despite his rejection, Palacios assured that Paquirri was very happy with Isabel Pantoja, although he pointed out that his friend was much happier with Carmina Ordoñez. ”Paco never left Carmina’s mind, he always had her in mind,” he asserted.
The wedding brought together more than 1,200 guests, but Paquirri missed only one person: her mother Agustina. ”She was a cannon, good people, she slept in her house. She was very important, a good woman,’ Antonio Palacios said excitedly. During the last months of the bullfighter’s life, many claimed that his relationship with the singer was broken. Something that Paquirri’s driver confirmed live. ”Paco died in love with Carmina,” the guest revealed.
