• LOC Ana Soria, Enrique Ponce and their complicated beginning: "I had to go to therapy and leave the race for two years for mental health"
  • LOC Ana Soria and Enrique Ponce: the reasons behind the return to the media of the most beautiful and her silver fox

"This is your first interview, the first of your life, on television, live and in El Hormiguero. Isn't that bad?" This is how Pablo Motos started the interview that nobody, absolutely nobody had gotten until last night: Enrique Ponce and Ana Soria. In case it had not been clear, Pablo Motos was responsible from the beginning to mean the firecracker he had achieved: the first interview of Ana Soria, the first of the couple together and the first live and in the most watched program on television.

Yes, despite who weighs him, it hurts who hurts, last night's interview in El Hormiguero was a firecracker, a major firecracker, indescribable, unexpected, unspeakable. Has El Hormiguero taken over from Sálvame? No, but almost. Enrique Ponce and Ana Soria were not going to present anything, not even a line of some product, nor were they going to talk about their projects, nor were they going to promote anything. Well, yes, they were going to promote their love story. Pablo Motos has also pointed out on several occasions how "precious" his love story is.

Of course, numerous characters from the world of the heart have passed through El Hormiguero. Recently there was Barbara Rey, but to present her docuseries and her series. Isabel Pantoja has also been there, although she also went on tour among other things. And every Thursday is Tamara Falcó, collaborator of the program, revealing and giving to the program what a few years ago she would deliver upon payment of its amount to the magazine Hola!. But rarely, if ever, characters directly linked to the world of the heart, characters who have filled pages and pages of couché paper, characters who have starred in dozens and dozens of news for their "precious" love story, have chosen El Hormiguero as the first place to leave the cave in which they got trying to protect their privacy.

Until last night, until Pablo Motos' friendship with Enrique Ponce and the bullfighter's trust with the presenter did, let's call it, magic. Yes, if Pablo Motos has achieved the dream interview for the whole cuore it has been because, as has happened with so many other characters, Pablo Motos' friends trust Pablo Motos. Do you think that Enrique Ponce and Ana Soria were going to sit down no matter how much Anthill was in a program without having assured that everything was going to be a yellow tile road? Not even a cunt. That is what makes the difference of choosing one site or another and, to make matters worse, choose a site where guests do not charge a single penny because the promotion and visibility offered by El Hormiguero is more than enough payment.

However, in the case of Ana Soria and Enrique Ponce, the issue of money is totally secondary, even tertiary. If they had wanted money they would have gone to Hello! or to Readings. Enrique Ponce and Ana Soria wanted to leave the cave and they wanted to do it in a place where the interview and the interviewer would make it easy for them, where the two great ones in life would be and where there was the commitment that they were only going to talk about what they wanted to be talked about and what made them look wonderful. And El Hormiguero and Pablo Motos are perfect.

Still, it surprises. It is surprising that Enrique Ponce and Ana Soria have agreed to leave, stand in prime time in the most watched program on television, and more when she herself confessed last night the ordeal that she has gone through "just to fall in love." In fact, one of the first questions of Pablo Motos was precisely that, why?, why now? "I wanted people to get to know me as I am. They have publicly opined about me without knowing me. We wanted to keep the relationship as private as possible, but I've endured a lot, we've been hearing things for three years that are not fair, that hurt, and I wanted people to see that I'm a normal girl."

The reality is that it is very difficult not to believe it. If it had been paid, such an explanation would be questioned, but, I insist, the guests of El Hormiguero do not charge. That is, for money, no. To wash your image? To stop being the bad guys and start being the good guys? Well, indeed, although said another way is what Ana Soria came to say. And why now? A year ago, two years ago and, of course, three years ago, Ana Soria and Enrique Ponce were everywhere and in all the media. That Enrique Ponce broke his marriage with Paloma Cuevas, one of the most solid couples on the national scene, and fell in love with an unknown girl overnight, was a bombshell that nobody saw coming.

The cotton candy of Ana Soria and Ponce

And as often happens when a man falls in love with a younger girl, when one man breaks up his marriage for another, it is the other who becomes the perfect target. If you add to that that Ana Soria had nothing to do with the world of the heart, that she was a law student, without more, that she did not have the weapons to defend herself, then turn off and let's go. She confessed it last night: "Yes, a part of the press mistreated us. We receive very bad, very derogatory treatment, disrespecting us as human persons - yes, he said human persons - that we are. Someone is not prepared for that and I leaned on him a lot, that he always doesn't care about everything. I went to therapy."

Ana Soria wanted them to know her, because everyone has talked about her, most of it badly, but nobody really knows her, nor does she know who else what has been published in the press, where, let's be fair and sincere, real barbarities have been published. In fact, although Ana Soria assures that she is already well, that she has resumed her law studies after two years in which she could not continue due to this pressure, the tension of Ana Soria last night in El Hormiguero was palpable. What need was there to come to the fore to explain who you are? A revenge? It is hard to assume that now, that they are no longer in the line of fire, they will accept to leave again, no matter how much Pablo Motos as orchestra conductor.

But yes, the interview and the decision was that, it was to tell how bad Ana Soria has been, how good she is, how in love they are, how close they are, how well everything is going for them. In fact, the signs of affection were constant, especially on the part of Enrique Ponce. He does know this world, for many years he was with Paloma Cuevas magazine cover dozens of times. He knows the medium, he knows the TV and he knows Pablo Motos, above all, he knows Pablo Motos.

Enrique Ponce pulled cake, looks, phrases, in short, phrases like "you do not know what motivated me, that day I cut off four ears", to grab his hand, to protect it without much notice. And, of course, not half a word about Paloma Cuevas. They say that it was one of the conditions that the bullfighter put and, of course, Pablo Motos fulfilled it to the letter.

Yes, it was a pasty, sweet, kind, cloying interview, but neither El Hormiguero nor Pablo Motos fooled anyone. Since last week and since Monday he was notifying, Ana Soria and Enrique Ponce came to tell their love story, and that is what they did, adorning it with all the flowers in the world, with all the magic in the world and with all the butterflies in the world, but they did not leave the agreed script.

His intention was very clear, to release his love story to the four winds, to show how badly the press has made him go through and the torture they have gone through, especially Ana Soria. "Yes, I've gone to therapy," he confirmed. "I fell in love with him and everything came. I didn't have the tools for that situation to stop affecting me as it affected me," he said.

The quid pro quo of Pablo Motos and Enrique Ponce

In fact, Enrique Ponce did not hesitate to explain what it meant for Ana Soria, and even for him that information in which it was assured that Ana Soria had been expelled from the bullring of Almería to the beat of the boos of the people: "I could not believe it. I've seen a lot, but to invent something like that... But how are they going to boo her."

And how nice they both! And how nice! And how they love each other! Objective accomplished. When Ana Soria had already told everything she wanted to tell and everything she wanted to show – how they met, how the first date was, how it was the first time she introduced him to her parents, how she is not an influencer, how she has resumed her studies again and "is at her best" – it was Enrique Ponce's turn. Beware, he also had a lot of fabric to cut and a lot to explain! Every question, every timing was measured and calculated. Ana Soria had already done her part, it was Enrique Ponce's turn.

He had to explain why he retired suddenly, without the traditional goodbye of the bullfighters and overnight. Let's be clear, "Ana had nothing to do with my decision." Let it be clear why Ana Soria has also been blamed for the sudden departure of the master. Well, no, or at least, that's what he said. As he explained, between one bullfight and another, between León and Burgos, on that day of rest, Ponce said 'see you here'. "I needed to be calm and have that tranquility that I've never had," he said.

Returning to the arena during Covid, one fair after another, 30 years from one square to another, were the reasons he wielded last night. Ana Soria had nothing to do with it. In fact, he said that his decision was made when his partner said goodbye to him to return to Almeria from León and told him "I get off with you". Burgos did not go, it was over, or not. Because, although last night he insisted that he was never going to do a full season again, the idea of doing, for example, 10 runs in 10 specific places as a farewell was already going through his head. But, that's it, it's over, even when he passes in front of Las Ventas he breathes a sigh of relief for not having to return.

What do you remember? Well, to that, to an interview of the heart program, to a magazine cover interview. How clever! To Caesar what is Caesar's. This interview could have been done in Hola! and they would have told the same thing and asked him the same thing, but what El Hormiguero gives, nobody gives. "Your love story is beautiful and I thank you for coming to El Hormiguero", was the closing of Pablo Motos. "Quid pro quo, Clarice, quid pro quo."

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