María Celeste Arrarás, who was the face of ‘Primer Impacto’ and ‘Al Rojo Vivo’, revealed that a news editor made life impossible for him in his career and dubbed him Octavio.
IN CONTEXT: The news director who despised and humiliated María Celeste Arrarás
Maria Celeste Arraras She shared in her column, titled “That’s How I See It… Reflections from María Celeste,” that years later she saw the person who had humiliated her when she was her editor.
When she started her career, Octavio ignored her and humiliated her, over the years she evolved until she achieved the success she fought so hard for and found it when she was called to be the star of Al Rojo Vivo .
At the time he was a reporter for a local Miami magazine while she was on the bad show, apparently he had to write some type of content for her and so he would be present at the press conference.
“I saw him under the sea of reporters … in an instant countless memories of all the times he despised me as my boss, the times he humiliated me and treated me like I was painted on the wall,” he said .
“I was backstage in the conference room at the Biltmore Hotel, where the presidents of NBC and Telemundo were preparing to announce some big news to the press: that I had been hired as anchor and editor-in-chief of a new news magazine that would air my name: Al Rojo Vivo with Maria Celeste”.
“There I was up there celebrating my success and he was down there with a career practically on hold, Octavio was no longer news director for Channel 41, he had moved to Miami and was working as an editor for one of these supplements that come with the newspapers thing was definitely a drop in rank,” he said.
“With a shy smile, he stood erect and from far below held out his hand to greet me and as I leaned down to shake it, I remembered the prophetic words that my ex-husband Guillermo said to the time of Octavio’s mistreatment repeated to me: ‘He’s going downhill, Mari. And you’re going uphill.'”
“I could have ignored him, but that never crossed my mind. I had no desire to make him feel insignificant like he had made me feel, ‘Congratulations,’ he said, ‘thanks for coming,’ I replied with a genuine smile.
He then shared the lesson he learned from that episode:
“In life one should not harbor resentments. If I wasted my time blaming Octavio for everything he did to me and felt sorry for myself, I wouldn’t have been able to focus all of my energy on achieving my professional goals, which cost me that day to this scene.”
After commenting that the event was on the front pages of several newspapers the next day, I said: “I imagined Octavio reading the article somewhere in town. What an irony! Life turns around and certainly never stops surprising us. This confirmed that I had chosen the right slogan for my new program: ‘Expect the unexpected’”.