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The actress and presenter Laura Valenzuela, 92, one of the veteran faces of the small screen, is admitted to the Madrid hospital of the Princess, as reported Wednesday to EFE sources of the hospital center.

The well-known actress remained in the ICU although she has already been transferred to the floor. "My mother is very bad. She is not in the ICU, she is on the floor and here we are all in the hospital with her," her daughter Lara Dibildos told the newspaper La Razón today.

Laura Valenzuela was the first presenter of Spanish Television, in the old TVE studios of Madrid's Paseo de la Habana.

Television couple in many programs of Joaquín Prat, both always with a smile and transmitting good humor, also developed career as a model and actress.

Retired from television since the late 90s, she has spent the last years of her life with her only daughter, actress Lara Dibildos, and her two grandchildren.

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