At the beginning of Mañaneros, the new morning show on La 1 hosted by Jaime Cantizano, they decided to pay tribute to the house and the strip with a video with images of all their predecessors, from José Antonio Martín Soler to Lourdes Maldonado. When they arrived at María Teresa Campos, she sang in front of her courtyard: “Today I cannot get up. I had a terrible weekend.” Oh.
In her memoirs, María Teresa says that a platonic love of hers, who was a priest, “once gave me a card that said, ‘Lord, give me the strength to change what can be changed and to accept what cannot.’ can be changed’.” Even today I keep it in my mind mainly because, apart from its religious aspect, it seems to me to be a great philosophy of life.” I don’t know if María Teresa would discover that in the repeated serenity prayer the third Missing request: “…and wisdom to understand the difference,” but if you think about it, maybe you don’t need that much wisdom, nor that much judgment, even though she has courage. , and she has plenty of it. It wasn’t for nothing that they called it Cojonudita de Málaga.
“When I came to television, I was already over 40 years old: me, not television. She was a small and normal lady. I remember they did an interview with me and I said that it was necessary to put an end to the machismo that women had to be tall, thin and beautiful to appear on the screen. And I added that a woman with the face of Andrés Aberasturi, who was then in the afternoon, would never appear on television. And there it goes. María Teresa Campos made television history in Spain with the face of María Teresa Campos and the artistry, character, professionalism and humor of María Teresa Campos. Then life happens.
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