Pedro Piqueras is one of the faces best known to the Spanish audience. The journalist and television presenter can boast of having spent more than 50 years dedicating himself body and soul to the profession he loves: communication.
Although he worked as an editor and dedicated more than 15 years to radio, Spaniards know Piqueras for his spectacular work directing and presenting Telecinco News, a position that has given him a lot of joy in recent years.
A few days ago, the 68-year-old journalist surprised the audience by confessing that he is retiring from television, as he wants to start a new stage focused on tranquility, his family and his loved ones.
Due to his imminent retirement (his last day on Telecinco News will be December 21), Pedro Piqueras is giving different interviews to the media to take stock and talk about his career.
In a conversation with the newspaper El País, the communicator has confessed that he has been thinking about retiring for a long time, but that different events made him hold on longer: ”I’ve been wanting to leave for two years. I noticed my age was beginning to weigh on me, as if the terrain on which I walked changed, I was not as agile as I was to make the quick decisions that this job requires, and I thought about leaving. I said it on the network. They asked me to stay (…) With the investiture resolved and a new news chief, I said: ‘it’s now or never’.
In the same conversation, the Albacete journalist acknowledged that throughout his career it has been very difficult for him to reconcile family and professional life and that now he wants to take life differently, rest more and dedicate quality time to his loved ones. : ”I’ve been doing the same thing for 34 years, going out at 10 at night, with no social life. I am 68 years old. Not everything is work.”
The presenter has acknowledged that he already misses television and has not left yet, just as he has confessed that he will greatly miss the lively lunches accompanied by people who have become family.
As explained in the aforementioned interview, the last day of work will be presented in the Telecinco newsroom with ”Hungarian salami, Manchego cheese and wine to toast with his team”, since it is a day that he will never forget and He wants to have a detail with his colleagues.
