Pedro Ruiz, the unclassifiable artist and proud bachelor turns 75

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This Wednesday, August 17,

one of the most

characters in this country, turns 75 and does so

since only a few months ago he performed his latest show,

, in the theaters of Spain .

he recently stated in an interview on TVE.

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The explanation for such

is perhaps that habit that he has practiced for more than 40 years of jumping into the water

from the diving board of his swimming pool, even in

, when the thermometer shows zero degrees.

Actor, producer, communicator, writer, lecturer, comedian, singer... Few disciplines can resist this

who came into the world in post-war Barcelona.

His father, Federico, born in Valladolid,

and his mother, Juana, from Almeria, ran a

and food business.

They had two children, Federico and Pedro, her firstborn, who felt such

that in her last years, as a result of her stroke,

of her. .

Currently based in Madrid, whenever he travels to Barcelona he goes to the

where his ashes were scattered.

"My mother, when I was a kid, told a Francoist mayor in front of me a phrase that stuck with me: 'Look, I'm free because I decide so, not because you allow me to," he recalls.

After finishing high school,

careers that he did not finish because he began his career at RNE Catalunya with the announcer Juan Manuel Soriano at the age of 16, a time from which his

and the singer Joan Manuel Serrat.

One of his first experiences was to reproduce the howl of a wolf because

a character that transformed into a lycanthrope.

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In the 1970s he made his debut on TVE in the sports program

, but it would be in 1985 when he

in the program

that he presented with

which was followed by the space of interviews

that remained six seasons on the air.

From then on, Pedro Ruiz became

artistic sauces, in

with 17 solo shows behind him, in

with 16 published books, the last

, in

with three films, being nominated in 1987 for the Goya for Best Actor for his role in

of Berlanga, and also in

, as he has recorded albums such as

, even composing songs for Rocío Jurado herself.

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She was a great friend of his, as

or

have been , whom he publicly defended in his problems with the Treasury, which earned him

by the then head of the Treasury. , Joseph Borrell.

A lover of football, a sport that he has continued to practice with the veterans of Real Madrid and Barça -"I'm from where they give me the ball", he says-, he distances himself from the procés -"in nationalism there are two interested parties and I'm not interested none of them"-, abhors politics

and is very

currently present on television -"that cultural summit called

has already begun ", he joked on Twitter last April-.

In his sentimental life he has also played against, because at 75 years of age he is a

although he got married, after a declaration before a notary that he did not believe in the bond, with

which allowed him to annul the union when In less than a year

the marriage

Although his physique is not exactly that of a movie heartthrob,

since he has been associated with beauties such as

, the exotic

(former girlfriend of Julio Iglesias),

,

,

and even with

who they say abandoned Ángel Cristo for Pedro Ruiz.

As Mónica Pont, another of his conquests, humorously declared, "Pedro Ruiz's success with women is down."

However, none of his relationships came to fruition, because, according to him,

In top physical and mental shape, so much so that he claims to know 300 phone numbers by heart and has never been admitted to a hospital, the phrase he would choose for his epitaph is simply

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