He didn’t go to his polling station that Sunday because he voted by mail. “No problem, but I won’t tell you who I chose because I never said so. A journalist shouldn’t do that. On Friday, Carlota Corredera, a native of Vigo, turned 49 and this is the first interview that she gives “professionally free”, without an employment relationship with the production company La Fábrica de la Tele and with Mediaset, for which she has worked for 16 and 18 years respectively. She was the director and presenter of Sálvame, although she did not see the last program. He presented the series about Rocío Carrasco, the most watched show on Telecinco in 2021. Now he has his own podcast called Superlatives. For superlatives, you. “I don’t know how to live halfway,” he insists.
Questions: How do we get dizzy?
Answer: I never thought I would be like this, but starting over at this age seems exciting to me. I come from a trip to the desert, from a very difficult professional and private time.
Q: What were you doing the day the end of Save Me was announced?
A: I was at my daughter’s house and got the news from a friend. I immediately reported it to my superiors because I thought it wasn’t true. It’s been very hard for me to look at since I left, but I will never speak ill of a program I created and raised, even if I haven’t buried it.
Q: Was Peru kidding when they said it was a “reds and fags” program?
A: No. I heard that he was mortally wounded there and when Irene Montero intervened after the premiere of Rocío Carrasco’s documentary. In the latter case, we mismanaged the program. We had some very important information to share and when we didn’t, it was treated as a matter of the heart. We should have let the experts speak, because there can be no party in something like this. Human rights are not questioned. But what really took down Telecinco’s ratings was Pasapalabra’s suspension.
Q: She presented the show with the most audiences in 2021 and was awarded the exclusion.
A: I know what happened and why I’m not there, but you’ll have to ask Mediaset about it. Maybe I’m the first who doesn’t fit into the so-called code of ethics.
Q: An ethical code that prevents politics from being talked about in entertainment programs…
A: I don’t know if there should be an opinion on politics, but what to do with a gender perspective, emphatically yes. Entertainment has the same social responsibility as news. The messages we send about bodies, about relationships, the approaches in interviews…
Q: Have you ever regretted getting in front of the camera?
A: I’ve often thought about what would have happened if I hadn’t started speaking in September 2015. I went from an anonymous person to another well-known person. For making the headlines about what you say, what you do, what you make fat. Thanks to therapy and my environment, I’ve learned to digest it, but I have no regrets about something I voluntarily chose, which is to be able to speak about gender violence and feminism in prime time, even though it cost me my job at Mediaset and on television.
Q: It has been the target of hate campaigns, on radio stations and on social media. What hurts you more than being called fat or feminist?
A: I find feminazi terrifying because the fat thing is so unoriginal… that they equate Nazism with feminism.
P: The last time we saw her at a public event was on March 8th with Irene Montero. What do you think of your role at the helm of Equality?
A: Sometimes a story needs a break before it can be told, and perhaps one day we’ll understand the scale of the violence that was inflicted on it, particularly by friendly fire. her and her partner [Pablo Iglesias] The toughest guts in the cave awaken and I can understand them having enemies, but as he walked away, the violence the two had endured stayed with her.
Q: How do you see the current politics?
A: I live in this moment with great concern. I don’t know if the ultras ask more of me or of those who let them in. I hope this is a bump that doesn’t go any further. I realize that, as Simone de Beauvoir said, in any crisis it is women and their rights that always take a step back. That’s why I have even worse macho women, my head explodes.
Q: What do we do with men who call for “quiet” feminism?
A: To those who think we are very difficult, I would say that feminism is uncomfortable precisely because it points us to injustices. I have shoelaces from fighting patriarchy.
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