Jesulín had not returned to her childhood home in Ubrique for 37 years. His emotion was such when he crossed the door of that modest building, now completely in ruins, that he decided to take the bathtub covered in rust. “Two people from the team loaded her into her car, and now she is installed in a little house that she has on her farm,” describes Jorge Salvador, CEO of 7 y accion, the producer of El Hormiguero that he created. with Pablo Motos.
Albert Espinosa likes to define himself as a “tenderness”, although today tenderness passes for weakness. He confesses that even before Pulseras Rojas, an idea for a television program was wandering through his mind, a kind of pending account. “At the age of 14, my father came to look for me at home and took me to the hospital, and that trip home from school was over,” he recalls. Next Thursday, May 4, he will redeem himself with the premiere of El camino a casa, where he will travel that distance between the schoolyard and the childhood home with six celebrities in prime time on laSexta.
“It has been the easiest format to sell in my history as a producer”, assures Jorge Salvador, “it is not a normal program, it is boutique television, one of those jewels that you can do from time to time”. The structure is simple: a backpack on your back, a sandwich with the recipe of yesteryear and a walk with good conversation. “Albert Espinosa has a special sensitivity that makes these celebrities open up like never before and reveal aspects that have marked his life,” says Carmen Ferreiro, director of Entertainment Programs at Atresmedia.
The first return to childhood will be, indeed, that of Jesulín de Ubrique, who returns strongly to television as the first guest of the new season of En tu casa o en la mía and, in addition, has just been confirmed as a participant of MasterChef Celebrity 8 After him, they will travel the way home by the hand of Espinosa Luis Tosar, who will meet again with the teacher from the Lugo institute who inoculated him with the theater bug; Rosa López, who pays off the outstanding debt with her native Almanjáyar polygon that she hid, out of shame, when entering Operación Triunfo; Fernando Tejero, whose childhood in Córdoba was especially hard; Ana Peleteiro, victim of bullying that made her draw strength from weakness and took her to the Olympus of athletics; and Pocholo, with a youth surrounded by luxury in Marbella.
“By naming Espinosa, they have opened the doors of all the schools, except the one in Pocholo. What he must have done as a child…”, says Salvador. The recordings began first thing in the morning when the children entered class and continued throughout the day. In exchange for letting them record, the schools asked the students for motivational talks: “A hostage exchange,” jokes the creator and presenter of El camino a casa.
“The most beautiful thing is to see these celebrities turned into children, they hang their bags on their backs, take the sandwich from their childhood and transform,” describes Albert Espinosa, who acknowledges that his goal was for all six of them to end up crying: “The more difficult was Luis Tosar”. He is a scriptwriter, writer, playwright, actor, film director… “I needed to present a program,” he jokes. With tenderness as his flag, the creator of Pulseras Rojas will reconstruct the childhood puzzle that he could never enjoy: “If we already say: ‘Today he has come to have fun at El Hormiguero…’, now we will add: ‘Today he has come to get excited at The way home…”.
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