• MasterChef Celebrity 8 When it starts, schedule, contestants and everything you know
  • Movistar Plus + The documentary that recovers the shame of Spain-Cyprus in France 25 years later: "Either you were Clemente's or you were against him"
  • Mediaset Sol Macaluso, from reporter in Ukraine to GH Vip 8: "I was going to enter the house as pregnant"

MasterChef Celebrity returns this Thursday night to the grill of La 1 of RTVE with a new edition, the eighth, which is preceded by the controversy. During the presentation of the culinary contest, which took place on Wednesday afternoon at the FesTVal in Vitoria, the three members of the jury gave statements to the press in which they frivolized about the Rubiales case, just the same day that the soccer player Jenni Hermoso denounced in the State Attorney General's Office the non-consensual kiss he gave her, in front of everyone, the president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation, during the celebration of his triumph in the World Cup.

The issue arose because some users of social networks compared what happened in Australia with another situation that took place in his program, when Anabel Alonso, contestant, kissed Jordi Cruz, member of the jury. He assured the press yesterday that "it is not comparable" and argued: "When Anabel came out I read it and it did not cross my mind to answer or say anything, but I would call her now to say 'friend, I am very sorry'. An opinion of his has been mixed with a kiss that gave me and has nothing to do with one thing with the other, although aesthetically it seems the same. " However, the judges commented to talk about the issue of kissing between jokes of dubious taste.

"I think there has been too much talk about Anabel's kiss and little about the one Tamara Falcó gave me," Cruz said with a laugh. "Was that desired or not?", asked Samantha Vallejo-Nágera and Pepe Rodríguez added: "I saw that he grabbed you. And you haven't denounced it, that?"

The latter ruled that this was "the edition of the peaks" of MasterChef, "Nor made to post. As these last weeks progressed, we said: the one that is going to fall on us." His partner, even, came to joke with the participation of the former president of the RFEF in the contest of public television: "They want to call Rubiales for next year!"

The producer regrets the statements

The unfortunate conversation, in which the three chefs participated as representatives of both MasterChef and public television, has been so controversial that the producer of the program has released a statement of rejection: "Before the statements made yesterday in the presentation to the media of MasterChef Celebrity 8 about the so-called Rubiales Case, Shine Iberia She wishes to clarify that she deeply regrets the unfortunate comments that took place during the interviews, in no case justifies them and strongly condemns any type of sexual violence. We apologize."

Consolidated as one of the most solid prime time productions of RTVE's La 1, MasterChef Celebrity returns to fill Thursday night with stoves and brawls and a new casting of celebrities composed by Jesulín de Ubrique, Toñi Moreno, Álvaro Muñoz Escassi, Eduardo Casanova, Genoveva Casanova, Blanca Romero, Sandra Gago, Jorge Sanz, Laura Londoño, Tania Llasera, Miguel Diosdado, Daniel Illescas, Palito Dominguín and Jorge and César Cadaval, Los Morancos, who play separately.

The aspiring chefs will compete with each other, but also against the return of GH Vip on Telecinco, since both formats broadcast on Thursday night. It is a strategy of the channel that Pepe Rodríguez has criticized: "Someone has programmed badly. No need, pussy. Put one day one thing and another day another. I see it that way, so that people have fun two days in a row and you do not have them there to 'see today what I see' and that if RTVE Play ".

  • RTVE