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  • Television.Celia Villalobos is excited in Masterchef: "They have given me many blows in life"

With the expulsion of

Lucía Dominguín

last Tuesday

, there is only

one contestant

in

MasterCchef Celebrity

with a trained hand to

feed a regiment

and defend herself with solvency in the ancestral art of strong stew and well-done stir-fry.

Celia Villalobos

, freed two years ago from the rigors of politics, has been able to recover

her passion for cooking

during this time

and has already established herself as one of the most solid participants in the

TVE

reality

show.

As far as we know, and as the LOC Detective said a few weeks ago, Celia will still advance a lot in the contest -Gonzalo Miró too-, two weeks at least, since she was

seen in an outdoor test in Barcelona

that has not yet has been issued.

That it reaches the final, remains to be seen;

it would be funny if he duels Josie.

She is currently defined as a

former politician,

but there is still a lot of active politics in the competitiveness that she shows in the

culinary

talent show

.

Above all, in that desire to mark his ground,

not allow himself to be stepped on

by hostile rivals, know how to command and have a winning mentality, at the same time that he deploys his skills to

agree with his rivals

when the situation demands it: in the programs that have been broadcast So far he has been seen

cooking good dishes

-for now, more praise from the judges than sticks-, maintain a pulse of divas with

Ainhoa ​​Arteta

and save himself from elimination tests.

When he climbs onto the balcony and avoids the moat, he entertains himself by looking at books,

talking with Mariano Rajoy

-through the imitations of Florentino Fernández, who also usually frees himself-, and throwing darts against his past in politics, a stage that, as He has not tired of repeating, he

does not miss.

Celia Villalobos, during MasterChef Celebrity.

Celia Villalobos, who had been almost everything in the PP - deputy since the first Aznar legislature as president, helmsman on the trip to the center, MEP for a year, mayor of Malaga for five, Minister of Health and vice president of the table of the Parliament-, he

is now happy

without having to attend to any public responsibility and turning his attention to his closest environment:

children, grandchildren, friends and the worldly tasks

of those who dedicate himself to the small pleasures that entertain him.

She left all her positions and ambitions when

Rajoy lost the motion of censure,

and she has no longer been part of any Pablo Casado team, since it is already known that

she bet on Soraya

and lost.

She divides her time between

Malaga

, her usual city,

Torremolinos

- where she maintains a summer house - and

Madrid

, where she has a family residence with

her husband, Pedro Arriola.

The pandemic will surely have affected his routines, but before the bug he could be seen walking and exercising

in the Retiro park

first thing in the morning.

The life of Celia Villalobos after leaving politics is easy because, although she says she does not plan to retire - and that is why she is in

MasterChef

, she collaborates with other television programs whenever they call her and

has published her memoirs

with the Peninsula publishing house,

Passionate politics

- actually

living a golden retirement simulation.

During the first two years after leaving his seat, he has been entitled to a

pension of 2,900 euros gross per month,

to which must be added the

assets

he has accumulated after 33 years dedicated to active politics with high positions of responsibility, which gives a

monthly average of between 3,000 and 7,500 euros

per month for more than three decades, not counting maintenance and travel allowances.

In his last declarations of assets, he declared a patrimony of

more than 200,000 euros in the bank, in

addition to

different properties

shared with Arriola - his matrimonial regime, as stated in his declarations, is of community property.

To all this must be added the profit obtained from a real estate operation carried out at the beginning of 2019, for which he sold -the exact price is not known-

his historic penthouse in the center of Malaga,

a property that could have been valued at about 800,000 euros.

Thus, between savings, sales and collaborations, it is understood why at 71 years old Celia Villalobos already

gives everything a little the same,

and can speak with that freedom that until now seemed more typical of Belén Esteban than of an active politician.

It is not that that loose language had never been allowed - it was for a long time the free verse of the PP, favorable to the laws on the expansion of the assumptions for abortion and gay marriage, contravening the party line and skipping the voting discipline in Parliament-, but now he

speaks more clearly and without ties,

even to criticize attitudes and behaviors of Aznar or Rajoy in the exercise of power.

As he will no longer set foot in a hemicycle or give rallies, not to mention the boring executives on Mondays, his day to day goes through the simple things that outline an enviable routine of

rentier with a luxury pension:

while other retirees would watch the works and they would feed the pigeons, she spends time with her family, going for a walk, reading and spending the afternoon shopping, as long as there are stores open, which can vary according to the day, time and curfews.

Although that does not matter much: known his

love of shopping online

- beyond his famous catch playing Candy Crush at the Parliament table, a shadow that will always haunt him, there is also another less widespread in which he was seen consulting a page clothing sales website from his tablet in the middle of a plenary session-, Villalobos will surely experience an exit visa in hand to the Golden Mile with as much emotion as the previous minutes of waiting before the Amazon delivery man rings the bell, who It is another drug of our time.

In other words,

Celia's life is not life, but vidorra,

and we envy her healthily.

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