Paz Padilla left the Salvame program live last Thursday after a tense confrontation with Belen Esteban as a result of the Cadiz-born woman’s controversial statements about vaccines. “You’ve screwed up all the way in,” snapped Jesulin de Ubrique’s ex, to which the presenter responded by removing the microphone and leaving the plate.
In a live broadcast on social networks with Anne Igartiburu and Maria del Monte a few weeks ago, Padilla stated that “vaccines are useless” , although he later retracted it, blaming the haters. But the “princess of the people” has not been convinced by the excuse of the host of Salvame. To her or to many of the people who work in television, who have managed tothe programs are going ahead in general despite the numerous casualties due to covid-19 in recent months.
The last one has been that of Nuria Roca, who has confined herself to her home after testing positive and has handed over the witness to her husband, Juan del Val , who is in charge of replacing her this weekend at the head of La Roca, the new program of the Valencian in La Sexta. It will be Del Val’s debut as a presenter, although he already has extensive experience as a talk show host and collaborator.
The sixth wave has been the biggest tsunami of the pandemic and, despite everything, it has not managed to reduce the grills of the generalist chains, which have looked for last-minute substitutes to fill the vacancies left by the Omicron variant. Like the case of Dani Mateo who took over from Lorena Castell the ten days she was at home after getting infected. He returned to Zapeando on Wednesday and, as fun as ever, he confessed that his “covid vacation” was like the movie The Shining, since he spent it accompanied by his partner, the Russian model Yasmina Paiman. “We would have killed each other with an axe,” he joked.
Vicente Valles’ partner on Antena 3 Noticias 2, Esther Vaquero,He has also been absent from the set due to covid and has just returned, while in the case of Carlos Herrera , due to his radio work, he could afford to continue in the gap by not having direct contact with his team if he presents the program from his own home.
In the case of Toni Moreno, he spent a “horrible” party, according to his own words, due to his contagion. “… stuck at home on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve” and without being able to be with her daughter Lola, the one from Sanlucar de Barrameda has just premiered in a reality show, specifically leading the debates on Secret Story 2. She has been able to undertake this project in Telecinco, precisely, because the mandatory quarantine at home has passed, which is currently ten days, during Christmas.
The New Year’s Eve Chimes ended up being broadcast on all the networks, despite the fact that there were several casualties due to covid of presenters. The most striking was that of Ana Obregon on TVE’s La 1, who was replaced by Jacob Petrus, but his absence caused the public channel to lose followers. The welcome to this year 2022 Modesto Barragan was also missed on Canal Sur for the same reason, and Paz Padilla was about to because of his second contagion.
In this sense, Cristina Pardo,who broadcast the last moments of 2021 with Dani Mateo on La Sexta, has acknowledged that he lived the previous weeks with a lot of pressure due to his fear of getting infected. I revealed it a few days ago to Pablo Motos in El Hormiguero. “I really have had a bad time, I don’t mind admitting it,” he said. Pardo shared that he had “resisted” without getting infected with coronavirus, but that it was very hard “going to work.”“Every day we arrived at the company they give us a test,” he said, “when they put the stick in me I thought ‘today is when they tell me I’m sorry, you’re positive’ (…) It was a horror.” Some demonstrations that give an idea of ​​the situation that presenters suffer today to be able to work.
