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last night will go down in history.

Yes, again

- the thirtieth time that he has gone to

-, but this time there was much more than endless listening to the president of Cantabria.

"...You were devastated and that night you came to

and you did a terrifying program."

These words by

, unable to contain his tears, hid the reason why

decided to be last night, the day of his 80th birthday, at

.

In short, what happened last night in

will rarely be seen.

Before

crossed the curtain last night to enter the set of

,

warned: "Tonight we are going to make something beautiful happen."

Bearing in mind that it was the visit of the regional president and that it was his birthday, the first thing one might think was that

's friend and almost confidant

, had prepared one of those surprises that only

knows how to prepare

But no, Revilla gave the surprise And yes, as

said, something very nice happened.

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Miguel Ángel Revilla celebrates his 80 years in El Hormiguero: "I talk about what they throw at me in order to sell Cantabria"

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Miguel Ángel Revilla celebrates his 80 years in El Hormiguero: "I talk about what they throw at me in order to sell Cantabria"

The last time Revilla was on the program was on Columbus Day.

The president of Cantabria attended the same day of the parade, the day of the hand kiss and the day it seemed that having

on set was the best thing that could happen to tell all the intricacies of the reception.

They were both so stoic that that night no one realized that on the other side, the side that television does not show, there was much more than a

revealing if the King said, if Sánchez did or if the food was good.

That day,

called

by phone and revealed that the love of his life, Aurora, suffered from colon cancer.

That night, that day, in that hand kiss, the Cantabrian gutted his heart.

"He was touched,"

said , "but I didn't want to tell the King what was happening to me," although the monarch immediately realized that something was wrong with him.

"That's why I asked you to celebrate my birthday here and for her to come,"

snapped at a

who has only cried once, twice with the one last night, live: the day his mother died and last night.

The promise of Pablo Motos to Revilla

While

tried to contain his tears and emotion as best he could,

collapsed as he had never been seen before.

, sitting in the audience, strong as an oak, endured, while in front of her,

and her husband put aside the program, the direct one, the fact that millions of people were watching them on the other side and, simply, they went two friends, the one who listens and the one who tells.

told him

when there was a minute left in the program and after trying to tell the Cantabrian president to focus on what he had to focus on.

This is

, the one we always see, in its purest state.

"Why is he the love of my life?"

, she focused herself.

"I took it out 17 years ago. I'm not Tom Cruise. One day a day arrives on a

program and someone must have sensed that I needed a kidney transplant and 6 people come to me, two from Cantabria and four from outside, who don't I knew of nothing that they contacted me to donate their kidney. Who was one of those six people?

, my wife. Be careful, at that time I was nothing!"

said .

With a faltering voice, the tears contained and

trying to throw a cape when he was the one who needed it.

The program was already out of time, but the promise that they made to each other that Hispanic Day could not be left out.

has kept in the most absolute secret

since that day .

and secrets in the same sentence seems impossible, but yes,

also saves.

As he said last night during the interview, in his educational stage at Los Salesianos he experienced such a trauma that they called him "the dumb one."

, "dumb", impossible.

Well, "dumb" has been until last night.

"I suck at singing and I know I'm going to make a fool of myself but she's my girl," like that line in Johnny to Baby's

: "I won't let anyone corner you. Come on."

And there that Revilla went, to sing to her

of her live the ranchera that they danced on her first date.

She, in the stands;

him, at the bottom of the stairs.

And she sang, of course she sang.

We are talking about

.

got up, went towards him, they sang in unison looking into each other's eyes, they kissed and for a moment, on the other side, it seemed that there were no cameras, no spotlights, no technicians, not even

.

Revilla

asked

four months ago that on his 80th birthday, he had to be in

and

had to be with him .

And,

, that man whom everyone sees as cold, arrogant and whatever comes up in each program, not only gave it to him, but also dropped his armor, the one he always wears, in the face of the suffering of a friend and a friend.

told him

.

You are right.

When

told him in October what was happening and that he wanted to be there in January with

, he was telling him much more than celebrating a birthday or giving his girl a surprise, he was asking for hope.

Without anyone, absolutely no one finding out these months about his wife's illness,

has undergone surgery and is receiving chemotherapy.

And

has been silent until last night.

It is true that there are many who suffer from this damn disease and not everyone has the opportunity to do what the Cantabrian president did last night, but you don't have to go to

, you have to love.

Y

not only loves

, but adores her.

It was all so natural, so spontaneous and so necessary for

,

and

.

I doubt that when

said, "tonight we are going to make something beautiful happen", he came to think how feelings were going to overflow and how television was going to once again do that magic that only television knows how to do.

They could have done it from the beginning, they could have seated

as one more guest, they could have dedicated the entire program to that request from

, but no.

Only a few minutes, but the most exciting minutes that have been lived in the 17 seasons that

has been broadcasting .

The "freeloader" of Pedro Sánchez, according to Revilla

And how did they know how to contain it!

Nobody suspected what was going to happen at the end of the program because the program was the same as every time

goes to

.

However, this time, there was a difference,

was not going to talk about corruption, nor about King Emeritus, nor about the Government, this time

was only going to talk about him, but about his most intimate and personal side.

Del

that he ate a banana for the first time when he was 10 years old and went to an act by Francisco Franco - "they came to say that as a man who had his first banana at 10 years old was going to be president of Cantabria" -;

a man who spent Cain's in Los Salesianos;

a man who had it all and left it all for his Cantabria.

"The first day I went to school my mother told me: 'you follow someone who has special characteristics and where he goes you go'. I was 11 years old and I followed someone who was very tall all day. So, we came to a dining room and there they gave me some delicious beans, some meatballs and an orange, the first time I ate it. The second day Father Aureliano grabbed me by the head, put me in front of the whole dining room and said: 'we've already hunted the freeloader 'Since then I was the freeloader and the mute. I did not live, I passed badly (...) Then I went to study Economics in Bilbao paying for my degree and I was revolutionized, "said the Cantabrian president during the interview.

And from freeloader to freeloader and I shoot because it's my turn.

Although he says that he has never told it, the story of the day that

invites him to lunch and he leaves without paying sounds to me like it is not the first time he has told it.

But since, in addition to birthdays and overflowing emotions,

was also going to talk about the book that went on sale yesterday about his life, he was not going to miss the opportunity to reveal the chapter entitled

, -"what you forgot must be put in quotes"-.

The story can be summarized in the following sentence: "

98 euros

. As he told last night, when everyone wanted to kill Pedro

,

said no. In fact, according to him, "Pedro won those elections because I did a lot of work on television defending him." Of course, what no one can deny is that

says what he thinks, period.

To thank him,

invited him to eat at Asador Donostiarra.

arrived late, 40 minutes late, and

had already started to eat.

At 4:30 p.m., Sánchez asks him to leave first and then

leaves - "I won't do it again" -.

stays drinking a coffee and a shot and when he is about to leave "they yell '

,

!' journal".

"There are two options or that he forgot or that these people are at a level that it is an honor that they come to eat and you pay."

in its purest form, because Revilla cannot stop being

.

But he did not want to go into more.

It was not the night to talk about current affairs, no matter how much

tried , nor to give

more cane , nor to release more headlines from the King Emeritus or from the political class, although releasing some or other.

It was the night for something else, for

, for emotion and for

to get out of time, rundown and everything.

A promise is a promise, word of

.

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