On Cristina Tárrega’s nightstand there are two things, a Bible and some texts by Gandhi. It is no coincidence, nor does she have them there because it seems that she is more Catholic than the Pope or more pacifist than a white dove, she has them on her bedside table because the real Cristina Tárrega, the one who is “like anyone” has a maxim in her life : “I am conciliatory by nature”.

Probably, for this reason and because emotions are what the journalist and presenter controls best, Unicorn Content, the producer of her two great friends Ana Rosa Quintana and Xelo Montesinos, thought of her for the recently released La vida sin filtros. A reinvented emotainment and talk-show in which Cristina Tárrega stands in the middle of the set without knowing what she is going to find, or who, or where what she finds might end up.

Although during these last two years -after the end of Nocturnal Animals- she has never left the medium, Tárrega could not find the project or the opportunity that she wanted to return to leading a program. She’s back in a big way, in prime time on Saturdays and with tough competition, La Voz Kids, but she doesn’t care. She compares herself to Cholo Simeone, “game by game, but without so much money.” And laugh, Cristina Tárrega laughs a lot and makes you laugh with her.

Her cynicism, her sarcasm and her sincerity turn around that diva character that is usually had of her: “Well, as a diva, nothing, beautiful. Now you tell me that we go to the town market and I am the first. You tell me you have to scrub, well scrub. You tell me to wash your hair and I’ll leave it shiny…”.

Silence.

The episode that Cristina Tárrega refers to, but that she does not want to remember or mention, is when Diego Arrabal, a collaborator of Sálvame in 2019, assured that Cristina Tárrega had had an affair with Jesulín de Ubrique. That news crumbled the foundations of the presenter and it was the only time that she lost her papers. It was never repeated.

Actually La vida sin filtros is not an interview program with characters, it is a program of human beings, of emotions, of all, the good ones, the regular ones and the worst ones. And in the middle Cristina Tárrega to control and to suffer. She says that the eyelashes that she wears are false and that in more than one of the eight programs that have been recorded she ends up with them on the ground.

Cristina Tárrega began her career in the 80s on the radio at the Radio Valencia station to later continue her professional career at Los 40 Principales and at Cadena Ser. She is so particular that after working at La Razón and at As she gave He jumped to television with a bullfighting program on Canal. From there came Alone in the city, Comanche Territory, Cristina, my friend…

I don’t like to play with anyone’s bread, nor do I like them to play with mine

He insists that although everyone considered her a Hermida girl, she never worked with him. She only saw him once. At that time, Cristina Tárrega had very separated rednecks and it was Hermina who told her that “with that Alibaba tunnel” she would never be able to work on television. Her first salary was spent on fixing her teeth. “I was crazy, she loved me. She sent me directly to the dentist,” she recalls.

The networks are cowardly, very cowardly.

Do you know what a PAS is? Highly sensitive person. well that’s me

La Tárrega gets up, asks you for a “kiss” and drops a question: Do you know what a PAS is? Highly sensitive person. Well that’s me. Sometimes I hate myself, but that fascinates people, because all that image of a blonde with great hair, with a very big mouth is not me. I am very humble and very sensitive “. The humble thing was taught by her grandmother” with a slap “.

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