The death of María Teresa Campos at the age of 82 continues to shock the world of television, especially among those who coincided and worked with her at some point in her long career. The veteran presenter, away from the spotlight for two years, died this Tuesday at the Jiménez Díaz Foundation in Madrid, where she was admitted last Sunday due to acute respiratory failure.
Linked to the media since her youth, María Teresa symbolized female leadership on the small screen, in times very different from today. A factor in her life that those television personalities who have shared the most moments with her have also wanted to remember, as is the case of Rosa Villacastín.
The collaborator attended Así es la vida, the program presented by Sandra Barneda in the afternoons on Telecinco, to pay her particular tribute to the communicator. “It was like losing something because I met her when she came to Madrid,” she recounted about the moment she heard the news of her death. “I had never set foot on a set and she taught me to look at the camera,” she has recalled.
Villacastín has praised María Teresa Campos’ ability to understand how television works. “She never used a prompter, she had everything in her head, she memorized everything, she knew where everyone was, when they had to go in or out,” she continued to recount.
After remembering that her beginnings on television were not easy, Rosa Villacastín told in Así es la vida that María Teresa had become “an example for women” from the beginning of her career. “She was the person who has most supported women in this country, she was a feminist when she was not yet a feminist,” she said.
“We went to the Seville Fair Carmen Rigalt, she and I, to the women’s booth, there was only one booth dedicated only to women. So, she is a woman who has fought for everything that today we begin to value and criticize, she already achieved it a long time ago”, concluded Villacastín.
