On any given afternoon in any bar. There's a bowl of chips on the table and the TV is muted in the background. Appears on the set of And Now Sonsoles (Antena 3) Javier Herrero, known as the blonde from Los Pecos. I don't know what he's saying, but I can see he's still alive. Because television on conventional channels has become a series of life beliefs, of nostalgia through metal and color, of famous people we have met and wanted to be like. Of children who could be ours, who could be us.
This country continues to vibrate and live the story of Ángel Cristo and Bárbara Rey, now through their descendants; María Jiménez and Pepe Sancho in their son's mouth. The death of Carmina, La divina, Ordóñez 20 years ago, thanks to Francisco, Cayetano and Julián. We do not know the exclusion if it was chosen by Isabel Pantoja through Kiko and Isa Pi. And he remains true to this path. This week TVE celebrates the premiere of “Bake off: Famous in the Oven” and among the participants are the biological daughter of Rocío Jurado, the youngest of Miguel Boyer, the third of Julio Iglesias and the youngest of María Teresa Campos. And we don't care, as Ortega Smith would say, if they get the cake, because the point is to remember those who went before them, when neither they nor we had wrinkles.
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Spain has not produced new celebrities for a long time, not because there is no quarry, but because we continue to feed on the past while thinking with joy about the future. Because we would live better than our parents and good things were ahead. Now the future sounds like miserable salaries, impossible housing and climate change. We are left with the sofa and the screen as an anesthetic. And TV executives know it.
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