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"We seemed like a joke," jokes

Eloísa González

on the other end of the phone.

Last Tuesday, January 16, she dressed up in Madrid to go on stage with her Galician (

Lucía Rodríguez

) and Andalusian (

Toñi Moreno

) namesakes to collect the

Iris Award for Best Regional Program 2023

for

Gente Maravillosa

, a format that mixes the hidden camera and social causes to discover the anonymous heroes of our society.

When the format landed in the

Canary Islands

, in the fall of 2020, its presenter did not have it all with her: "I thought: here no one is going to jump at an injustice, here we are going to remain silent," she remembers.

So the team decided to break their skepticism with a first-hand test.

"I really like animals, so they had a girl try to abandon a dog that her boyfriend had left her after he separated from her, treating it terribly," she says.

Eloísa González

's reaction

was so furious that she had to edit the video quite a bit: "I called her everything, you can't help but react, it makes your blood boil."

He knew the hard way that things were going to work.

Already convinced, she understood that that format suited her like a glove: "I wanted to be

Toñi Moreno

, that seemed perfect to me."

And what worked in Andalusia also worked in the Canary Islands.

Until today.

Is there room on television for solidarity? Our television, public and regional, is a social responsibility in itself.

What we have to do are social programs, we are here for that.

But then, it seems to me that there is very good quality in the programs made in the Canary Islands, the regional ones make very good content that the national one could copy.

On that stage of the Iris Awards I was more than 1,700 kilometers from my house, and that is a lot.

In addition to

Gente Maravillosa

, I have been with the comedy program

In another key

for 22 years , one of the longest-running programs in Spain and with a brutal audience figure.

We will be doing something right. Are you a presenter, actress, singer, model... How would you define yourself for those who do not know you from television? First of all, I will say that I am not a journalist, but I really enjoy telling stories, talking to people, tell what is happening.

In the end, television is about having good stories.

Most of the people who pass through the Wonderful People set are having a very bad time, we have lost many people along the way.

But then come stories like that of Hilda Silverio, a woman with terminal cancer who did not lose her smile until the end, and of course, she jumps to the national level.

That testimony reaches you whether you are in Extremadura, Galicia or the Canary Islands.

She came to television by chance, I understand that it was not her initial plan. She was so young that she was very clueless, she had no idea what she wanted.

I was queen of my town's festivities, they interviewed me and signed me for local television.

I began to act as a reporter at the Carnival, shaking people with my microphone alongside Álex García [actor of

Sin tetas no hay cielo

and

Tierra de lobos

], who was already beginning to stand out in Madrid.

That was more than 25 years ago.

Someone from TVE saw me and there I started making programs.

After a couple of years I entered Canarian Television and until today.

Honestly, it doesn't feel like it's been that long, but people tell me, "I've grown up with you," and it turns out they mean it.

The other day a boy came who always came from the public to see my program with his grandfather, and now he is a doctor.

What a slap in the face! He has been presenting the Campanadas for 21 years, tied with Ramón García.

How does he experience that night? It is a very magical moment, but for me ringing the Chimes is normal.

I can't imagine what I would do if they told me that I wasn't going to do it anymore, I don't know how to do anything else, I wouldn't know what to do at home.

In the end, it has become a kind of game with the dress that you are going to wear and people assume that I am going to give them. The 2016 dress played a trick on her that made it a

trending topic

at the national level.

It was funny, because the experts looked at the palm trees, which were flying from the wind, and told me: "Stop at that time, don't worry."

And he didn't stop.

I was more covered up than ever, I didn't have any cleavage but I didn't count on the slit, and I swear that at the time I didn't know anything about it, I found out everything later and I thought that I wasn't going to get depressed, that I was just going to get depressed. I had to hesitate with that.

After making it clear that she was wearing panties, yes, because they said everything.

I remember that they called me from a national sports program, they were all men, and I decided to hesitate at their level because in order for them to eat me, I would eat them.

So I told them: "I have kept the rabbit all year and I only took it out for a walk that night." In 2008 he made the leap to national television to present

Supermodel

, but he has not returned.

Have they not proposed any interesting project to you? That experience was very good and I met great friends, a program like that benefited me because I was white, I did not commit to anything.

What scares me is doing something that is not good for me, I am already a few years old and I am not up to certain things.

I watch television like crazy, and I respect it, but here in the Canary Islands there is no tabloid press, the vibe is much healthier.

They never watch you, they never stalk you, I don't need more. Santiago González, director of Antena 3 Noticias;

Francisco Moreno, Mediaset News Director.

It seems that lately the Canarian youth team is booming. And I'm very happy, I love listening to them with our accent and feel so proud that they represent my land.

As for the youth team... Let them hire me as content director, they're going to be screwed!