• Jorge Fernández invites Wismichu and AuronPlay to compete in The Roulette of Luck: "They are very critical"

After 13 years triumphing with the roulette of luck , Jorge Fernández returns to prime time today with The Game of the Rings. The king of the morning will try to replicate his monumental success in this new contest, adaptation of a Dutch program that at 10:45 p.m. debuts on Antena 3 with the firm intention of perpetuating himself on the grid.

"It's not a summer program and that's it," says the Alicante presenter, who turns 47 tomorrow. «We have recorded four programs and I suppose that if it goes well we will record more. Although August is a difficult time to test a program because television consumption is lower, it also has some advantage and that the other programs are a little lower and you can compete, ”says Fernández about the latest commitment to Atresmedia entertainment, which currently only has cartridges for this month.

A large circular screen located on the ground will be the main novelty of The Game of the Rings, where knowing the correct answer is as important as knowing how to locate it on this map. «Where is the flag of Europe on the 20 euro bill? Where is the largest stone in a road sign of danger of detachment? There are many questions about the human body: where is the spleen or pancreas. They will also have to guess where two points are going to be found at an intersection, ”says Fernández.

In this way, the contestants, who will play in pairs, will have to place the title rings in the place where they believe the answer is located. And as the program progresses the rings will decrease to increase the difficulty and prizes. "You can take pasta," says Fernandez.

As in Lucky Roulette, the questions are designed so that viewers can also play from home. It is not surprising, therefore, that Atresmedia has entrusted the conduction of the program to Fernández, who has been leading his time slot practically since its premiere in 2006 and, after occupying the space of The Simpsons , has closed the course exceeding the data of the yellow family and marking the best season in its history with an average of 1,530,000 spectators and a 16% screen share.

« Roulette is a very difficult phenomenon to explain on television. When we started competing with all the magazines, we were the discordant program of the morning offer of any chain. Honestly, I thought, I will do it well, it will last a month and give me another program. I thought he was going to fuck, I didn't see him hollow. But the more TV you do, the less you know about TV, ”he laughs.

One thing is the fans who ask for photos and another thing is for a paparazzi to take photos hidden behind a stone

Jorge Fernandez

Professional success has turned Fernández into one of the best-known faces of Spanish television and, in general, thanks the affection shown by viewers. «I am lucky that all the programs I have done have been very friendly, very white and people treat me with love. It is true that all the time, from 7 am I leave home until 10 pm I come back ... you have to get used to it. But you know what you do for a living and that it also goes in your salary and in your work. For now, it compensates me, I get along pretty well. But he distinguishes: «One thing is the fans who ask you for photos and another thing is for a paparazzi to take photos hidden behind a stone on the beach. That does not like anyone , to market with your photos, in which you go out anyway, to put texts that do not cool. I do not enter that game and I do not like to take pictures when I am doing sports or with my son. Although I also understand that there has to be this, ”he says.

Taking stock of these two decades, Fernández recalls that he had actually dedicated his life to basketball, but after fulfilling his dream and debuting in the ACB League as a Saski Baskonia player in the 1997-1998 season, a knee injury forced him to change course. «For me it was a huge stick and I had to reinvent myself in everything . I finished my degree in Physical Education and started teaching, but it didn't fill me up. I started doing model things, but it didn't fill me up either. I introduced myself to Mister Spain [in 1999] and well, I won it, so I thought, I have to take advantage of the reef, ”he confesses.

«I started with María Teresa Campos on a day-to-day basis and in the end, here I am, in my house, with a lot of prizes in front of me, a program for 13 years and others very good as This house was a ruin», says Fernández, which also co-presented Big Brother with Mercedes Milá and Pepe Navarro.

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