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"My friend Antonio Mercero said that tenderness was almost a crime. And I am going to confess: I am a terrorist of tenderness and I want to get Jesus – Jesulín de Ubrique – moved today." This is how the first program of El camino a casa started last night, a format conducted and devised by Albert Espinosa and produced by Pablo Motos and Jorge Salvador, in which there is only one objective: to make an emotional journey, to make a trip to the truth.

Let no one think that Jesulín de Ubrique, the first celebrity who has traveled the way back home from school, was going to premiere again on television with a difficult program. Yes, of course, that The Road Home is a road of "emotional terrorism", as Pablo Motos described Albert Espinosa on Wednesday, but it is by no means a road of stones, potholes and harsh reality. And if there is one, it is the harsh reality to which nostalgia leads, getting older, what the Galicians call, homesickness.

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From Jesulín de Ubrique to Pocholo, passing through Luis Tosar, Albert Espinosa returns to the childhood of the famous

  • Writing: SARA POLO Madrid

From Jesulín de Ubrique to Pocholo, passing through Luis Tosar, Albert Espinosa returns to the childhood of the famous

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Programmes.

The reasons why Jesulín de Ubrique returns to the television arena

  • Writing: LUIS F. ROMO

The reasons why Jesulín de Ubrique returns to the television arena

But what the hell! How good it is to cry! How good it is to get excited! How good it is to feel! Feeling means that you are still alive, that your skin still bristles, that tears still flow no matter how hard you try to contain them. Jesulín de Ubrique tried to contain them several times. It was impossible. It would probably be impossible for any of us.

Maybe when you watch The Way Home, even when you listen to Albert Espinosa, the creator of the Red Bracelets series, based on his life, on his dozens of treatments, on his story of a child with cancer, some think, 'this is a bunch.' Thought is free. But if you sit down to watch The Way Home becoming Jesulín de Ubrique, remembering the door through which you entered the school, the playground, your class, the teacher who marked your childhood, the sandwich when leaving class, your backpack, your folder, that job in which you were approved, suspended or put your first outstanding, Your first love, your return, in short, to that child that we all carry inside – some closer than others – the 'bunning' vanishes completely.

The idea of the program that Albert Espinosa has created is an idea that we should all realize at some point. We've all come home from school and we all keep it in our memories. With the passage of time, memory is very selective. A large part of things are forgotten and only those that memory wants remain in memory. But those returns home after school always remain. Aware of this, The Road Home by Albert Espinosa is a trip impossible to refuse. Last night Jesulín de Ubrique premiered it, but Luis Tosar, Rosa López, even Pocholo will pass through it. And all of them will end up in the hands of that "terrorist of tenderness", that "emotional terrorist" whose objective is not only to find the child that remains inside each one, but to get excited.

And he does not hesitate to warn him: "I want to get Jesus excited today." Wow, he succeeds! One of Albert Espinosa's abilities, in addition to having the power to live seven lives like a cat, is the ability he has to transmit and touch the soul. A phrase by Albert Espinosa can touch deeply because they always make you think. And that road back home that he traveled last night with Jesulín de Ubrique did nothing but make the former bullfighter think. Make him remember.

Jesulín de Ubrique seeks a new Puerta Grande

Jesulín de Ubrique has decided to return to television – although he participated in season 3 of El Desafio, also produced by Pablo Motos and Jorge Salvador – with three programs, let's say, easy. The difficult ones already knew them for a long time and they still bring tail. Now, Jesulín returns to television by the hand of who is not going to make it complicated, Albert Espinosa, Bertín Osborne and MasterChef. Perhaps the latter carries with him a little more media exposure for all the show he carries with him, but the other two are programs for Jesulín de Ubrique to shine, to ensure a new Great Door.

The way home starts at school. there Albert Espinosa gave Jesulín de Ubrique a backpack, which was well loaded, and a folder. Albert Espinosa wore his own, that of Jesulín de Ubrique carried the photo of Arconada, of which he was an absolute fan because if Jesulín de Ubrique had not dedicated himself to the world of bullfighting he would have been a soccer goalkeeper. "He was the best," he repeated again and again to Albert Espinosa on the way to "the tracks." There Jesulín faced the shots of a few boys and girls before entering the school. The good thing about The Way Home is, without a doubt, Albert Espinosa. He not only accompanies the character, he lives it with the character and undresses in the same way that the guest does. Probably without the 'open tomb' of Espinosa the "journey to the truth" of Jesulín de Ubrique would be impossible.

It was at school, in his class where Jesuli, as he was called as a child, brushed the fingers of that boy that Albert Espinosa wanted to find. When Don Tomás, his teacher, entered the door loaded with photographs of Jesulín de Ubrique, the right-hander did not contain his emotion. "In this photo, I am my son," she admitted, holding back tears. He asked Don Tomás to give it to him, he asked him to upload the note of one of his works, he remembered Mercedes, the girl he liked, he remembered the windows of his class, he remembered where he sat and he remembered the bakery, which no longer exists, where he bought bread and muffins: "How sad is it when something from your childhood no longer exists? Do you realize that the years go by?"

They got on a Vespa, almost like the one Umberto Janeiro, his father, had when he went to pick him up from school and went to the farm where he lost the child and the bullfighter was born: El Almendralejo.

Jesulín de Ubrique, debts and bullfighting

"My father was an entrepreneur of well-known artists, Rocío Jurado, El Fari, Manolo Escobar, Bigote Arrocet. My father didn't do well and lost money," Jesulín de Ubrique began. "We were here – in El Almendralejo – and my father came out the door. He had a kind of black plastic and a white chalk and put 'for sale' and hung it on the door. So I said, 'Why are you selling the field?' And he said, 'You don't understand.' He was very excited that one of his sons was a bullfighter and I did not contemplate it, but then I said: 'Do you want me to be a bullfighter? 'Then don't sell the field?' Jesulín de Ubrique became a bullfighter to pay his father's debts, to pay the debt his father had contracted with Rocío Jurado.

As Albert Espinosa said at the end of the program "you are incredible because you knew how to change the course of many people in your family with very few years. You saw a conflict and you solved it and they didn't teach you that in school. You lived it. You felt it. You say you don't have empathy, but you have total empathy."

With the first 1,190,000 pesetas that Jesulín de Ubrique earned when he was only 13 years old, his father not only paid the debts, his father bought a plot of land and a Renault 5. With 14 years Jesulín de Ubrique bought his first apartment, with 15 years a van, a Renault 11 and his family built a house. At the age of 16 Jesuli bought the current estate he now has, the famous Ambiciones.

He himself recognized it at the beginning, his childhood was not that of a normal child because he had to leave everything very soon to raise his family. That is why when Jesulín de Ubrique returns home, the house in which he grew up until he was 14 years old and which he had not set foot in for more than 30 years, Jesulín de Ubrique shed tears like fists. "Can I pass?" he asked Albert Espinosa with the keys to the house in his hand. "How many times have I climbed these stairs! My mother, as is the door," he said as he approached the doorknob.

The house is completely abandoned. Some cochambroso sofa, the bathtub in which Jesulín de Ubrique and his brothers bathed -"maybe I'll take it"-, rubble, walls destroyed by time, chopped windows, but... But, "how happy we were here!" And how much those who are no longer there are missed. Absolute humility between those four walls, and happiness. The happiness of that child that Albert Espinosa managed to bring out of his lethargy. Because he already said it at the beginning of the program, "only the one who continues to have that child inside can do The Way Home".

"The best thing about making the way home with Jesuli is discovering how she enjoyed so much with so little. That's why your inner self wants to get so many things to share with others. If you give him unconditional love or give him passion, you'll earn it forever." Easier, impossible. More tailor-made, difficult.

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