The controversial vedette became one of the most popular figures on television in Spain in the nineties
This Sunday, an eight-episode miniseries based on his life premieres on AtresPlayer Premium.
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More than three years after his death, Crisitna Ortiz, La Veneno (Adra, Almería, 1964 - Madrid, 2016) will return to television. This Sunday the Veneno series premieres on AtresPlayer Premium, based on the life of the most popular transsexual star in the history of the small screen in Spain (with the permission of Bbiana Fernández), Veneno . In its eight chapters, Los Javis (Javier Ambrosi and Javier Calvo) narrate how a boy born like José Antonio in a small town in Almería in the mid-sixties ended up becoming an LGTBI symbol.
Discs, porn movies, series roles, and also prison entrances and exits that led her from stardom to become a broken television toy. From his appearance on Pepe Navarro's program tonight we crossed the Mississippi , until his premature death, La Veneno , with his cheeky attitude and profane language, left no one indifferent in each of his controversial appearances.
Looking for a partner on television
After a hard childhood in Almería in the sixties, suffering from a very young age when a woman felt trapped in the body of a man, when she was only 13 years old she left her house repudiated by her mother and went to seek life in Marbella. that his jump to fame gave him once he had an operation, his first appearance on television was made as José Antonio in the Telecinco dating program Vivan los novios in 1991. La Veneno always liked to boast about how handsome he was when he was still man and in fact, before becoming Cristina, he was proclaimed Mister Andalucía in 1989.
His first appearance as 'La Veneno'
Shortly afterwards he left for Madrid, and already as Cristina began to practice prostitution in Parque del Oeste . At that time, the late night that revolutionized the early mornings in Spain, Tonight we crossed the Mississippi , I was preparing a report on transsexual prostitutes and fate wanted Telecinco's cameras to meet with La Veneno . The moment in which she explained to viewers what services she offered to clients , using the microphone to make it more graphic and with the subtlety that has always characterized her, made Pepe Navarro, director and conductor of the program, move earth and heaven to have her regularly on set.
"I mean!"
After many calls, bouquets and three months offering very tempting offers, Navarro achieved his goal and La Veneno became a regular contributor to the program . His path to stardom began there. He spoke openly and naturally about subjects that were taboo at that time in Spain, such as prostitution and transsexuality , something that fit perfectly into the television grid of the time, in which there was no room for what was politically correct, and he unwittingly, it became a benchmark for the trans community.
He also left other more emotional moments, such as the reconciliation on set with his parents, but above all much humor and entertainment thanks to his casual attitude. He allowed himself to insult whoever he liked, he used vicious language difficult to imagine on television today and his phrases such as " Poison is worth more for what it is silent than for what it speaks" or its mythical tagline "I say!" They were known to most of the Spanish. And if something bothered him, the same went for his "shark" as for "the fins of the pussy." This was La Veneno .
Music and porn movie career
Cristina Ortiz's popularity crossed the borders of the small screen just a few months after her debut as a collaborator with Pepe Navarro. In 1996 he made the leap to music and his single, Veneno pa tu piel , with which he achieved the gold record, surpassing 50,000 copies sold. Shortly thereafter, in 1997, he had a brief foray into the world of porn cinema, starring in two films , The Secret of La Veneno and La venno de la Venom .
Sharing the scene with Alfredo Landa
The phenomenon of La Veneno was such in Spain that that same year it came to appear in the series In full form , starring Alfredo Landa , who played the role of a man in his sixties and who after going through his second divorce decides to invest all your savings in running a gym. The series was a complete failure and was canceled within a few months of its first broadcast, but La Veneno made its mark in six chapters playing a gymnastic instructor and sharing the scene with one of the most important actors in the history of Spanish cinema.
I go through prison and back to the sets
Pepe Navarro changed Telecinco for Antena 3 also in 1997 . The pelican's smile , with a format very similar to the Missippi and the same collaborators, including Cristina, slowly lost steam and audience in favor of Crónicas Marcianas , which began airing that same year, until Antena 3 decided to cancel it nine weeks later. of its premiere, alluding to the fact that its content violated the chain's code of ethics. From this moment on, the star of La Veneno gradually faded away while continuing to collaborate on television.
In 2003 it was the moment when he hit rock bottom and entered prison for an attempt to swindle the insurance of his apartment , which he burned to collect compensation. Three years in prison made a psychological dent (he reported having been abused by several officials) as well as physically, and in 2006 she was released unrecognizable, emaciated, with many extra kilos and no trace of the stunning body that catapulted her to fame in the late nineties. Even so, he returned to television and walked through all the programs of the heart of the time telling history. Beyond tragedies, he left behind moments made in Poison , like the telephone joke that was played on the set of Where You Heart . Across the line was someone claiming to be her neighbor who called her a liar and a scoundrel. La Veneno , surprised by the call, reacted with her usual spontaneity: "I shit on all your dead so disgrace ! Who are you fucking whore?"
The plaque in the Parque del Oeste
When it seemed that he was finally back on track, he died prematurely at the age of 52 in 2016 from a domestic accident. The controversy was around his death, since months before he had published his memoirs, I say! Neither whore nor saint (very important in the plot of the Los Javis series), in which he gave the initials of important personalities with whom he had sexual relations.
Three years later, the Madrid City Council decided to install a plaque in his honor at the Juan de Villanueva fountain, in the Parque del Oeste , where he practiced for a long time: "In memory of Cristina Ortiz, La Veneno, a brave transsexual woman visible in the nineties (1964-2016) ". In less than a week, the plaque had disappeared and had to be replaced by the City Council. This would not be the only or the last time. We do not know if these acts were due to pure vandalism or that people wanted to have in their home a memory of the woman who became an icon for the trans community without intending to be.
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