Protect your private life with all the arsenal you can and never, never pronounce or enter into any of the controversies that surround you, which are not few. It's Pablo Motos , the Requena boy who cleaned glasses in the hospital where his father worked and sold crochet magazines to earn some money . Now he is one of the highest paid TV presenters. He leads prime time night after night with El Hormiguero , his program, his life. "Now it's time to rest and think new ideas to try to keep up , " he escapes.

With 13 years of history, El Hormiguero 3.0 (Antena 3) remains unbeatable and remains the most watched daily option on television . When the season closed last June, Pablo Motos went on vacation with a 14.4% screen share and an average of 2,561,000 viewers , collecting gold minutes. No wonder, therefore, that El Hormiguero is his greatest personal bet, his greatest success and his greatest triumph. The program, which is made possible by the producer 7 y Acción , which he founded with Jorge Salvador , is the hen of the golden eggs. 36 registered trademarks , revenues that in 2017 exceeded 26 million euros, a net worth of 7 million and the achievement of exporting El Hormiguero to China, Portugal or Chile, and I have already made it to the US by Will Smith . More than enough for Pablo Motos to be the presenter 'diamond'.

«For me this has been the best season of all since we started. I could not explain why but suddenly the whole team was more lively and focused than ever and we have dared to do things live that can hardly be seen in any other program in the world. We have felt very connected with people and very dear. There is no major gift, ”said Motos at the end of the season. Hence it does not happen. If he speaks, he will only do it from his program, from nothing else, from anyone else, much less from him.

Even being “the pride” of Antena 3 -word by Javier Bardají , general director of Atresmedia TV-, the pretty boy and the one that, without a doubt - and they have no difficulty recognizing - is “the most attractive for advertisers”, Pablo Motos does not want anyone to know Pablo Motos. An example is not only that he does not grant personal interviews, but until this year he did not have an Instagram account. It was opened after the pressure of his great friend Nuria Roca and it is the only window that the presenter leaves open to meet him beyond what he shows - and it is very little - every night at El Hormiguero .

Thanks to Instagram it is known that he is taking advantage of his more than deserved vacation to dive in underwater caves with great friends, such as the traumatologist who operated on his knee this year, Dr. Ángel Villamor ; that has burned; who has done paddle surfing; What are you reading? If nature is the answer, what was the question? by Jorge Wagensberg ; or that, like every neighbor's son, he is enjoying good food. He will no longer show anything else about him. It is his decision, but it is also his essence: Motorcycle, the hidden.

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One of the few interviews that in his 30 years as an announcer and presenter has granted was Bertín Osborne and was almost five years ago for the program In yours or mine (TVE). There he told what he wanted: that he was "the clever of recreation" , that he remembered his father always working, that he was a rebellious teenager , who did not ride a bike like the rest of mortals, who was "the guitar teacher of the American School of Requena » for the children of the American workers of the Cofrentes nuclear power plant, which was dj, which was« aspiring »to posh and who became« repellent » .

Details of his personal life that humanize and sweeten the character, but that of getting a little wet, and if something is wanted Pablo Motos is to get wet , but not the calves. Few presenters - with the exception of Bertíny for other reasons - generate as much animosity as Pablo Motos generates in the audience. Even so since El Hormiguero arrived at Antena 3 - he was born in Cuatro - audiences do not stop firing. It is the great victory of the hated Pablo, it is the bittersweet Motos .

Putting Pablo Motos in a headline is guaranteed success. Anything you do or say generates interest and if you add controversy to it, it is like a five-engine audience engine. It is another of its mysteries, how is it possible that someone who generates so much dislike and iniquity can continue to be the leader of prime time and adding minutes of gold like the one that collects the beer badges.

"Pablo's team has managed to make creativity and innovation the most successful format," says Bardají and, perhaps, this is one of the explanations to solve the mystery. El Hormiguero is nothing more than a program of friendly interviews where guests, mostly friends of Requena, come to “have fun” , which most of the time have fun, and that above all add humor, science, magic and A time to this part much, much, much show, much show. There are those who rate it as The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon in Spanish, with permission from prime time and late night . It may be, but it is doubtful that Jimmy Fallon falls into as many quicksand as Pablo Motos falls.

Live in criticism

You only need to read a social media program night to be aware of the rejection that the presenter generates in a good part of the audience, an audience that no matter how much rejection it generates, continues to see it . His way of interviewing, his outings of tone, his - less and less - comments out of tune, his collaboration with the guest artists, his ball, his ... everything. No matter what you do, because whatever you do you will be criticized .

"And what opinion do you think people have about you?" Asked his friend Bertin in that interview. «I have no idea why I stopped caring the first time they hurt me. I realized that it affected me a lot ». Motos told Osborne that he did not remember what that painful column had been, but that he did remember that he was called "mamarracho" and, above all, that he did "much harm." "Whoever loves me, who loves me and whoever has to hate me hates me as soon as possible and saves us all this time, which is not going anywhere , " Motos then asked.

It was the time when Pablo Motos, even increasing the audiences day after day, always got into a puddle. Macho comments to guests who made their discomfort visible, tone outings, hurtful jokes, excessive rambling ... Few forget that interview with Las Chicas del Cable , which was collected by numerous means and even described as "insult"; or that night that sat Lydia Valentín to explain "the high" of the 2008 Beijing silver medal and in which the presenter ended up, again, immersed in the controversy by asking him with a stunning insistence in case he had a boyfriend, if he wanted to fall in love and how he linked; or the night Peter Dinklage himself snapped at him after an awkward question that "yes, the dwarves are real." Like these, too many.

The macho comments are criticized, an attitude is criticized that part of the audience qualifies as “slug” with certain guests, they criticize chascarrillos that take the feet out of the pot -that they tell Jorge Javier Vázquez and the plump boy dancing the Despacito-, it is criticized until when the guests do not go for reasons that transcend the presenter, it is criticized that it takes politicians and some dora the pill -the feeling this season with Albert Rivera was more than obvious- and others the sit on the torture colt - there was Pablo Iglesias. He criticizes what deserves criticism, but also what already touches the obsession. Perhaps it is because of that aura of mystery that he insists on maintaining and that he cannot see beyond or perhaps it is because it is almost a tradition to criticize Pablo Motos.

He never gives explanations or justifies the controversies in which he is immersed, but since last season he has included a section in which his very friendly Nuria Roca bleeds the headlines of the press on him. It is not justified, but it bites, because, as he said, "it hurts." The other cheek is over . An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.

A great person"

Because if Pablo Motos proposes something until he doesn't get it, he doesn't stop. Those who know him assure Chronicle that he is a "great person", involved in numerous solidarity works , but above all that he is a "tireless worker" and that each interview "is prepared as if it were the last." The effort and hard work killed them since childhood. In fact, it has never missed any program. Not even when he had knee surgery, not even the same day his mother died. He entered the set with the same old smile and did the usual: he burst the audience. The maximum is demanded, but it is also required of those who work with it . It is inexhaustible.

«The only thing I do well is to look for talents ... I am not easy as a boss . Absolutely. When the program starts, I don't know anyone. When the program ends, I meet everyone again. Because I like you very much or because I feel sorry for something I am not going to say yes or no ».

And it may be that this requirement is the key to the success of a program that generates as much sympathy and affection as annoyance its presenter. Yes, a good part of the audience rejects Pablo Motos , but they need Pablo Motos. Without him, El Hormiguero is not El Hormiguero, because, in short, El Hormiguero is him . Without him the guests who attend the program would not be delivered as delivered, nor would they feel comfortable enough to tell what they would never tell others. If this is added that he will never respond directly to the attacks, the recipe is perfect: mystery, entertainment, entertainment and many, many, many friends, who would not leave Motorbikes in the lurch or for all the gold in the world .

His stellar moment with ...

WILL SMITH

El Hormiguero completed 2,000 programs this year and Motos and his production company threw the house out the window traveling to London and recording the program in the BBC studios with a guest who "loves" him: Will Smith . The program had a share of 18.6%, an average of almost 3.3 million viewers and the Gold Minute of the day.

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