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The host of 'Todo es lie' will mentor the 'talent show' 'Top Star. How much is your voice worth?'
In addition, he publishes his second novel, 'The gossip', in which a penguin blows the main character the recipe for success.
The book starts with a real anecdote that happened to you.
What was it? I forgot to take off my earpiece and was about to take it home.
I thought what would happen if that happened to a person outside of television, but who suddenly begins to receive instructions through
you see that earpiece that leads to success.
Complaints that most people think second-hand.
We think we are very original, but we are repeating what we have seen, read or heard somewhere.
The other character in the novel is Valentina, a television presenter who does not want to sell herself.
Does it cost a lot not to sell your soul for the share?
Well, I do not know because I have not done it and they have not proposed it to me.
I have not had that dilemma.
I have been fortunate to be able to do a job in the most honest way possible.
Why do all the television presenters insist on writing books?
The question should be rotated.
Why are presenters who write books called "hell-bent on writing"?
I think it is the other way around.
Why can't someone on TV write a book?
Why does someone who goes on TV and publishes a book have to have worse quality than someone who has never been on TV?
There are many people on television who publish a book and do not sell a breadstick.
Being on TV does not guarantee that you will continue to publish books.
I have 10 published.
10 books in 14 years, won't you have a 'black' like Ana Rosa?
Again, prejudice.
Have you read the book?
Yes.
Have you read any other books of mine?
No.
Does it seem to you that all of us who write have to have a black man?
No.
You are telling me about a presenter in a specific case.
If all journalists are not the same, we presenters have the right not to be the same.
Is the edge born or made?
One would have to ask an edge.
Don't you consider yourself edge?
No. I consider myself honest, what happens is that sometimes honesty annoys.
How big is Risto Mejide's ego?
You tell me.
Here you see me.
What do you have to have to be a commentator for 'Everything is a lie'?
Something to say.
How do you handle criticism on social media?
If you knew me, you would know that I absolutely do not care, the good and the bad.
I work for people who like what I do.
If you don't like what I'm doing, it's probably not working for you.
What has been the most tense moment on the show?
I don't remember it, but there are many moments of tension and emotion.
It is a very intense program.
What would you say to Pedro Sánchez about the earpiece?
Tell the truth.
And Isabel Díaz Ayuso?
Lucky.
What do you think of the duel between Ayuso-Iglesias?
It is exciting.
I have a political news program, it suits us very well that the positions are so clear.
An interesting campaign is coming.
You affirmed that "whoever does not dance the water to Podemos all day is a fascist."
That's how it is.
Are you sick of this situation?
I'm sick of labels and being told that I am a fascist one day and, the next day, a red podemita.
I'm sick of people ranking you based on the last thing they read.
I totally reject extremisms.
An extremist is someone who hates you for the same reason that they loved you yesterday.
You have said that you were a personal friend of Rivera and that you helped him find a job and he did not thank you.
Another disappointed one?
It has disappointed me on several levels, personally and politically.
The political alternation, which at one point could be given to get out of the bipartisanship, is leaking on all sides.
Not just Citizens.
It is bad news for Democrats who believed that it was all very well that there were not just two options.
Can you be a left-wing liberal?
Yes of course.
In the novel you also talk about how the television cemetery is full of good professionals who one day had a misstep.
What is the bloodiest case you remember?
On television you have a continuous evaluation.
The day after having done a job, you already know the result.
That happens in very few sectors.
That is both good and bad.
Good in the sense that it gives you time to correct or rectify and you can learn very quickly.
But it is also bad because there are many good ideas or programs that could have been successful, which have not been given the opportunity precisely because of the rush.
The great enemy of television is not share, it is haste.
Is today's television full of programs of people of the heart with flat encephalogram?
No.
You have defined yourself as a mercenary of communication.
Yes.
Has no one ever told you what you had to say on television?
Never.
And what you didn't have to say?
Never.
Give me some advice as a publicist: what do I have to do to build a good personal brand?
To be honest.
What is Risto like when he comes home and takes off all the layers of the character?
As you see me, but with transparent glasses.
What is the price you have paid for always saying what you want?
I will never know.
Anyone who has not offered me a job for being who I am has not told me.
While on television, I will continue to bet on saying what I believe in, which does not mean the truth.
I do not believe that there is a truth, but in honesty, which is different.
Honesty is the correspondence between what one thinks and what one says.
The truth is a very complex thing and it would surely be the sum of everyone's honesty.
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