Galilea Montijo before the Latin American Music Awards, where she hosted in April 2023 (Credit: AP Photo/John Locher)
Perhaps Galilee Montijo She’s the host with the most media exposure on the show, and that’s nothing to complain about. She stands out as one of the veterans of the morning magazine Hoy and is one of the most experienced presenters, hosting reality shows from Televisa such as La Casa de los Famosos or at events such as the Latin Grammys.
Those who deal with her daily, or who have known her a little, describe her as a beautiful person with a kind, simple soul. “Galilea has something else that even gives me something to pimp her because she’s going to give it to you. You can’t tell her how nice your pants are because she will give them to you,” shared Natalia Téllez with Partner at Netas Divinas.
It was in this very room where Gali once again opened her heart to explain why she almost always strives to be the provider of her environment: because of the precariousness she experienced as a child.
Montijo was born and raised in Guadalajara, Jalisco. Despite being so hermetic about her family life in this western Mexican city, she has always maintained that she grew up without a father and that it was her grandparents who raised her along with her brother, since their mother, Rebeca Torres, was the mother of one , who worked as a secretary. The driver later got two sisters.
However, during these years he also had to take care of his siblings and contribute to the family household, as there were repeated deficits due to his father’s neglect. “I often saw my mother cry because she had nothing to eatso I always do this… because everyone tells me, “But why does your dressing room always have to have food?”
“In my house I have something that when I arrive and see an empty part in the fridge, it invades me … it takes away my peace. I go (to the supermarket) and buy and I tell everyone.” ‘Do you want to eat, do you want to eat?’” Montijo added.
His concern has become so great that even in his dreams he feels the need to remedy this deficiency. On the show, his partner Daniela Magún revealed that the same day he entered Galilea’s dressing room, she was asleep and woke up suddenly to offer him something unusual: “Do you want chicken?” he said.
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“I was sleeping but I was dreaming, I don’t know, I had chicken, I stuck (to this idea) ‘There’s chicken,’ I want everyone to be well fed,” she added, somewhat embarrassed and amused Experience.
Luckily for Gali, her childhood is behind her and little by little her wounds are healed, one of them on her father.
Several decades later, Gustavo Montijo Talamantes searched for the family he had abandoned. “I accepted it for my mother’s happiness, it has always been my intention to see her happy. Only they (my parents) know their stories, I didn’t go into that, I just always wanted to see my mum happy.” she told Today in 2021, when he shared his father had died of Covid .