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Betrayal, dirty war, disloyalty, covert farewell...
the news of the departure of Sonsoles Ónega from Telecinco has been accompanied by all kinds of epithets that have revealed the discomfort with which Mediaset has experienced the signing of the journalist , one of the stars of the chain, by Atresmedia, the eternal rival.
The statement was published last Monday, after the broadcast of
It's already noon
, and fell like a bombshell.
In the corridors of Telecinco they are still recovering from the blow, because nobody knew anything.
A
purely labor decision
, normal in any other professional field and in a free market context, has thus become a soap opera that in circles close to the journalist and writer is experienced with some surprise and disgust.
Almost everything published is a lie, they lament.
"Neither has she negotiated behind the back of Mediaset nor has she betrayed anyone
. It is also not true that Atresmedia has gone to fish for the competition to do harm,
an offer was made to her,
because she is one of the most beloved presenters by the audience, and she He has accepted.
The surprise was that he was available...
but that was all," they point out.
There have been no negotiations for months or weeks
, as LOC has learned.
Everything was conceived in 48 hours.
Sonsoles made the decision to accept Atresmedia's offer the weekend prior to the statement on Monday, July 11.
Everything has been much more natural than the interpretations that have been published.
The journalist received a call from the network but thought they were going to talk to her about the screen adaptation of her latest novel,
A Thousand Forbidden Kisses
, edited by Planeta, the group's publisher, with whom she has published all of her literary work.
She was in for a real surprise when
she was offered a current affairs program
for the new season, a
project that is still shaping up
but has a time perspective.
They wanted her to take it.
She matured it during that weekend and valued it with her father,
Fernando Ónega
, and her sister Cristina, journalists like her and
the only ones who knew about her offer.
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The two had it very clear and they pushed Sonsoles to accept.
"I had no doubt
, it is a unique opportunity that has presented itself to him at a perfect moment in his career, at the age of 45. He called me very nervous to tell me about it and I told him that,
professionally, he had no choice but to accept
because it is an
offer of those that only appear once in your life
and it would be suicidal not to do it, "says
Fernando Ónega
(75) to LOC.
Because of him, Sonsoles ended up studying journalism, although
he didn't like it at first
.
Cristina
, the eldest, had also followed in his footsteps-she is the director of TVE's Canal 24 Horas-and thought that two journalists were enough.
She tried to dissuade her.
"I told her, Sonsoles, daughter, three is already too much concentration of risks, but they called me from the school to tell me that
I was causing trauma to the girl.
And I already gave up, of course," she says.
Today, when he already declares himself "retired" from the profession, he could not be more proud of both of them.
His father and sister were clear about it, but Sonsoles too, from the beginning, although
the decision to leave Telecinco, where he has worked for 14 years, has been "very hard", they
say in his environment.
"It has been his chain for a long time, there he has learned a lot and also leaves a lot of friends," they add.
But they regret that
they have not allowed him to say goodbye to the audience
or to his companions.
When he closed the program on Monday, with the commented gesture of putting his hand to his heart - "something he had already done a million times before", they emphasize - he went to Paolo Vasile's office to
personally inform him that he was leaving.
She was willing to continue until the end of the season.
She did not negotiate or pretend to receive a counteroffer
, as LOC has learned.
They didn't talk about money either.
The decision was made
and the CEO of Mediaset received it with surprise and disgust
.
"Vasile Sonsoles loved it, he was very happy with it",
Telecinco sources assure.
She was one of the crown jewels and was even seen as a possible long-term replacement for
Ana Rosa Quintana
.
It was also hard for her to say goodbye because she is
very grateful to the network,
where she has developed her career since 2008, when she joined news services to cover
parliamentary information
.
Her contract was linked to Telecinco and not to
Unicorn Content
, the producer of Ana Rosa Quintana, in charge of starting
Ya es noon
.
In Unicorn, the departure of Sonsoles has not gone down well either.
She, meanwhile, is focused on
finalizing the details of her seventh novel
, set in Galicia in 1900, which she will deliver to Planeta on a date.
She has written it in her spare time, combining writing with
It's already noon
and It's already
eight
, the program that was broadcast until June 23 and was withdrawn from the grid for not reaching the planned audience goals.
She is also enjoying her children
,
Yago and Gonzalo
, whom she now hugs much more, while she rearranges herself to face her new stage on Antena 3. Little is known about the program: it
will be current
, it will probably contain a social chronicle and it will be evening , although nothing is closed because it is still being outlined.
The only sure thing is her.
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