Whoever says being on TV is easy money hasn’t thought of the stress of spending your adult life trying to attract attention. Spanish artists generally don’t like to talk about their personal lives. The one who talks about his personal life is because he hasn’t worked since Ingrid Asensio presented this Nocilla ad space on Antena 3. So as gossip, we need people to fill in that facet of the artist. And over the years, and between (almost) all of us, we’ve seen a generation grow up that hasn’t known a world without Big Brother. Easy Money: Enter a competition and stand out, shout out in debates, chain another reality show, develop a carnal relationship with another unlucky farmhouse man, wait for the thing to blow up . If you drop a level you still have the MTMAD slots and if they don’t even want you there you can always offer discount codes on Instagram now that clubbing isn’t what it used to be.
Life on TV is not easy. Not everyone is worth it. You have to spend a lot on repairs and surgeries. You have to live from and for the body, for the catastrophe. You often have to say “prototype”. I’m sure that Alejandro Nieto (winner of last Survivors) worked long and hard to win. Now the Treasury takes almost 40% of the price. By all accounts a savagery; and whoever says otherwise is untrue. We pay reluctantly, but we do it because we live in society. The difference is that those of us who don’t make a living from TV are left with 60% of what we deserve and the reassurance that when we cry about things like this, no one is kidding or joking. Alejandro Nieto can add and subtract, but what he doesn’t know is how peaceful life outside the circus is. You don’t know what you’re missing.
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