- Relationship: The presenter María Casado finds love in a prestigious lawyer
Two phone calls were enough to turn María Casado's life (42) upside down. In the first, the management of TVE informed him that they no longer had her for La Mañana , the magazine he had been presenting for four years. In the second, Antonio Banderas asked him if he would go with him to Malaga. And she did not hesitate "not a nanosecond." The initial surprise and disgust lasted another nanosecond: the actor had just offered him the direction of his audiovisual production company, Soho TV.
María arrived in the Andalusian city almost wearing her clothes and has been "frenzied, from meeting to meeting" for a week, she confesses to LOC, but admits that she feels "very happy". And it shows. On the other side of the phone his voice only transmits joy. "It has been a week of film , very intense, with many emotions because this is not just a job change, but an approach to life, " he says.
And that change has come at the perfect time. "It was like a conjunction of the stars, who have come together to make this happen," he laughs. "I always say that endings are the beginning of something and I take it that way. I am very positive, a very optimistic aunt and I think that things always happen for something." After going through his abrupt departure, he does not have a single reproach towards RTVE, where he has worked for 20 years: "Not at all, the people who know me know that I am not like that. I can only have beautiful words for everything I have learned, for the friends I have there who are already part of my family . "
One of them, who has worked on La Mañana for several years, does not hesitate to point out that the journalist's dismissal has been "the gift of his life. On Spanish Television they have done him a huge favor by taking away the program." "In Malaga, she is going to do great because Banderas is a loyal person and is highly supported. Maria will do great things, I am sure, because she is a great professional, respectful, generous and hard-working. She treated the journalist who covered a story in Congress the same way that the one who interviewed Tamara Falcó ", he remembers before admitting that he does not know if he will meet her again, but that if he called," he would leave everything, without hesitation. "
María did not hesitate when Antonio Banderas, whom she has known for several years, said "come". " It is a delight to work with him , you do not know the strength he has to bring out the best in everyone. Things that seem impossible with him are not. He is a person who makes you dream," Casado confesses to LOC.
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The same day her dismissal was announced, on May 8, Banderas called her. "The first thing he asked me was how he was and then what had happened. The third thing he said was: 'Give me five minutes and I'll call you back, I think I have something for you. As soon as you told me, no I had doubts. In the end I had the feeling that I was going to be where they wanted me, which is here in Malaga, " said the president of the Academy of Television Sciences and Arts .
Where they did not want it, apparently, is on public television, despite the fact that he has a place obtained by opposition on RTVE. She has been struck down by Rosa María Mateo although La Mañana has been the television program that has increased its audience the most during the state of alarm, according to data from Kantar Media.
RTVE announced that they were going to assign him to "other professional tasks" in the house, but they did not specify which ones. Married was not the only one. Xabier Fortes, who left Los Desayunos and will be in charge of the 24-hour night of the Canal, and Máximo Huerta, struck down by the low audience of Starting today, have also fallen victim to the purge of the morning strip . .
Maria has already turned the page. He did not even wait for the season to end and he said goodbye to the audience, with tears in his eyes, last Friday. "Family, have a very good weekend. Take care of yourselves. I just tell you that I love you very much and always." He already had the Banderas offer and was not going to wait any longer. Until the replacement of the meteorologist Mónica López, in September, it is Diego Losada who has taken over La Mañana .
"Her departure has been surprising but I don't think it was so unexpected for her. I think she was seen coming, that it was going to happen sooner or later because she was very respectful of all ideas and was not particularly critical of the opposition. So, I insist, they have given her a gift by throwing her out, "says his program partner.
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María will combine her work on Soho TV with the presidency of the Academy of Sciences and Arts for Television, which she agreed to in 2018 in replacement of Manuel Campo Vidal . Representing the Academy, she rang the bell on the red carpet of the last edition of the Goya Awards, held precisely in Malaga, clad in a sequined dress by Sara Montiel. It has been one of the few eccentricities of the journalist, lover of discreet life and little given to attract attention.
Hardly anything is known from the private sphere of the brand new director of SohoTV. She is single although she has ever confessed that she is a babysitter and that she would like to be a mother. She defines herself as very homemade and cooks , a lover of cinema and music, from Rocío Jurado to hard rock. Zero mythomaniac, his professional references are the neat Ana Blanco and David Cantero.
Another of his hobbies is crossfit , a sports discipline to which he has passionately dedicated himself - he participates in the very hard tests of the Spartan Race - and which has led him to lose almost ten kilos in five months. In addition, she is the author of Historias de la tele , a book in which she reveals some of the mysteries of the small screen, such as the fate of Espinete or what happened to the pendant of Lola Flores.
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