With the festival of San Juan as the common thread, the program Sálvame has said goodbye to the Telecinco television schedule. “This is not going to be a funeral, it is going to be a party”, that has been the spirit that the collaborators have wanted to transmit to the audience since the beginning of their last chapter.
All dressed in white for the occasion, the program team has gathered on the set, decorated for celebration reasons, for the end of its broadcast after 14 years on the air.
During the afternoon, the well-known faces of the program have been taking different objects and documents such as tapes and photographs from the secret files of Sálvame to a large bonfire located outside the set. That sensitive material about various celebrities on the national scene, as they assured, will never see the light after being burned in the great bonfire.
The show has said goodbye after 3,639 episodes. The person in charge of lighting the symbolic bonfire was the Spanish goalkeeper Antonio Rebollo, who also lit the cauldron for the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games.
At the beginning of the program, a few collaborators have traveled to various points in Madrid and Toledo to portray what Sálvame has meant to its audience and also to highlight how relevant, for better or worse, the program has been for the history of the television.
Belén Esteban has moved to a nursing home; Kiko Matamoros has done her own thing to the house of Lydia Lozano’s mother to ask her forgiveness; Lozano has gone to the town of Pantoja, a surname that has starred in hours and hours of the program; Alonso Caparrós has visited a young woman who was born on the same day and at the same time as the program 14 years ago; and Pipi Estrada has approached a clinic where the first baby was scheduled to be born after the end of the broadcast.
Kiko Hernández, Terelu Campos, Adela González, María Patiño, Carmen Borrego, Rafa Mora, Antonio Montero, Miguel Frigenti, Gema López, Laura Fa, Chelo García Cortés, Carmen Alcaide, Pilar Vidal, José Antonio Canales Rivera and José Antonio Avilés, none He wanted to miss the goodbye to Sálvame under the direction of David Valdeperas, another well-known face of the program despite being behind the cameras.
The most notable absence of the afternoon was that of its star presenter, Jorge Javier Vázquez, who is on medical leave. Despite not being present, the program has not forgotten him and the entire set has given him a standing ovation to thank him for the years he has dedicated to television.
Videos of the best moments, thanks, tears, connections with viewers from around the world and, how could it be otherwise, there has also been time to point out prominent ex-collaborators who repudiate Sálvame and who have not wanted to participate in the last program due to various disputes in the past.
June 23 will be a designated date for the program’s unconditional fans, since its last broadcast has coincided with another sad event, the death of one of its indisputable protagonists over the years, Mila Ximénez, who passed away on the same day in 2021. .
