Raquel Meroño, winner of MasterChef Celebrity 5: & quot; With a certain age, fame is handled differently & quot;

• 'TALENT' Raquel Meroño wins 'MasterChef Celebrity 5'

At the end of the 90s

(Madrid, 1975) was one of the most popular characters in Spain: she was one of the protagonists of the fashion series and her image was one of the most sought after in the country.

But the same thing happens with fame as with popularity in that institute of 'Al Saliendo de Clase': it is ephemeral and capricious, as soon as you are on everyone's lips as suddenly nobody remembers you anymore.

"Already at a certain age, fame is handled differently", confesses the brand new winner of the fifth edition of 'MasterChef Celebrity' in conversation with this newspaper just a few hours after TVE broadcast the culinary 'talent' final in which He beat

.

As the actress advises, the best thing about fame is "not to be confused" to give it only "the importance it has" and thus "not to give it to not having it."

After years out of the front line of the 'celebrities', Meroño arrived at the VIP version of 'MasterChef' almost by chance, as she says: “Someone from the program's producer saw me at a social event and suggested it to me .

He told me that the image I projected was not the one that corresponded to reality and he wanted to give me the opportunity to prove it.

Attracted by the proposal, Meroño decided to do the casting, although at that time she had no idea of ​​cooking - she herself has been called several times during the contest as a

-

"I did the casting two or three years ago and I had already forgotten about the subject," explains the actress.

"And suddenly in the middle of the pandemic they called me to tell me that I was in the contest," he says: "I even thought it was a joke."

So in just a few months he went from not knowing how to cook to conquering the jury of the final of the most famous culinary talent on television with a menu of his own creation composed of

in a tomato water jelly base as a starter ;

with ginger, coriander, lemongrass, curry and spheres of coconut milk and lime, as a main dish;

and

accompanied by coconut, cocoa and a peanut butter caramel.

This gastronomic proposal by Raquel Meroño not only convinced the jury but also the television audience.

The final of 'MasterChef Celebrity 5' achieved the record of this edition and was the most watched on Tuesday, with

and a 25.1%

share.

The program registered its most watched minute at 11pm, with almost four million people watching television.

Raquel Meroño entered 'MasterChef' almost asking for forgiveness: "At first the only thing I wanted was not to be fired from the first for my daughters, more than anything because they are teenagers and have a terrible time," she confesses.

But as the programs went by, it went from not counting in almost any pool to consolidating as the revelation of the edition.

“In the sixth program it was when I clicked”, he remembers: “The judges talked about my evolution and my teammates chose me as captain of the team event and I said to myself:

And that's when I began to think that I could go far.

Along with the trophy that accredits her as the winner of 'MasterChef Celebrity 5', Raquel Meroño obtained 75,000 euros in cash for an NGO that she allocated to

.

In addition, both she and Florentino Fernández will enjoy a weekend Creative Cooking course at the

, the prestigious Faculty of Gastronomic Sciences of San Sebastián.

But for Meroño the reward from this experience is much more important than the prize from the contest.

«This program has been a common thread, but really the change that I have experienced is having reconnected with that girl who started on television and who

;

that girl who thought that by dreaming and working things could be achieved ”, she says, charged with an energy that she wants to have come back to stay.

"Hopefully this has helped me to put myself on the map again and that they remember me, because opportunities are so important, and more so today, that you have to take advantage of them," he says.

Reincorporated into the 'hall of fame' thanks to her time at 'MasterChef', Raquel Meroño faces the future with a lesson instilled by her very present father:

« He has always explained to me that when you have that despair of falling and you are weak and without strength, reinventing yourself and recovering yourself, drawing strength where there is none, is much more powerful than being at a given moment on the crest of some wave » .

So Raquel Meroño, who in recent years had turned to various businesses as an entrepreneur - «they are already underway and are run by highly trained people» - and in caring for her twin daughters - «the girls are teenagers and I no longer care. they need "- he is clear from now on:"

.

I want to go back to everything that makes me happy and my career is what I have always liked the most and has filled me the most », says Raquel Meroño, back to fame 'after leaving MasterChef'.

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