Risto Mejide met again with Esther Aranda in the delivery of Viajando con Chester issued on Tuesday, April 4. The woman from Malaga became famous for participating in the sixth edition of Operación Triunfo, broadcast on Telecinco in 2008. She had to deal with harsh criticism from the Catalan, who was a judge of the ‘talent show’. He apologized to her 15 years later.

The guest, who left music and became a businesswoman, commented: “I’m interested in knowing how you lived it and why so many criticisms of me.” She confessed that she was afraid of the evaluations of the jury on the program: “My legs were shaking.”

The presenter explained: “I was trying to make a show of my evaluations. Didn’t you see that it was a television program?” She replied, “Nah! I was pissed off on the bus on the way to the Academy.” She later pointed out that she was very young at the time: “I was green in every way. I didn’t watch the show. I was wondering why this guy is such an asshole with me… Why with me?”

The host of the Cuatro space shared about OT: “I hated that format with all my might and I told the producers before I went in. I told them ‘if I go, I’ll say what I think of absolutely everything and it’s not good.’ .. My motivation was to go for the program. My enemies were not you.”

Aranda asked him: “Why do you get into a project that you don’t like and that you hate?” He replied: “To destroy it. It wasn’t that bad for me. Where is Operación Triunfo?” She pointed out that the ‘talent show’ jumped to another chain years later and lived a different stage “with the ‘hashtag’

Mejide ended up apologizing to the former contestant: “We are not going to be hypocrites. I had a goal, yes. You were collateral victims of my goal, I admit it… I apologize for anything that could have hurt you in the slightest “.

The presenter later took the Andalusian’s hands and opened up: “This Risto that you see is not the same as 15 years ago… I want to tell you with all the letters that I’m very sorry, I’m really sorry. I wish you hadn’t had to go through it.” She accepted her apology and assured that she does not hold a grudge against him: “I am very fond of you. I do not live in hatred, neither with you nor with anyone. I am very happy to be here with you.”

Virginia Maestro was the winner of OT 6, an edition in which she coincided with Esther Aranda and Pablo López. The host of Traveling with Chester admitted that he had been very critical of almost all the contestants of the ‘talent show’, but not with the one she ended up being the winner.

“Suddenly, at a gala I found out from the videos that there was a contestant who was being completely marginalized from the rest. That made me react… I also took up that cause to again go against the producer and the program, to say: ‘How do you allow this to happen?'” he declared.

Aranda pointed out that he did not consider that the participants had ‘mobbed’ Maestro: “I don’t remember it like that.” Risto contradicted him: “Look at the videos because what was being done with that girl was incredible. Not only you, the Academy, the galas…”.

In addition, he revealed that there was another contestant who was the favorite of one of those responsible for Operación Triunfo. “That producer told me: ‘But don’t you see that this is the one that has to win?’ It was the beginning of the end of my relationship with him… I had to apply my criteria in those galas, not what he told me the producer… I started to defend this girl from the bullying of her classmates and the bullying of the rest of the Academy and the production. I don’t make her win, the public votes for her,” he shared.

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