12 years ago Telecinco gave the Christmas bomb: Isabel Pantoja and Jorge Javier Vázquez were going to ring the Chimes. This morning, the magazine Diez Minutos gave the exclusive on its cover that RTVE and the tonadillera were negotiating for La Pantoja to be one of the presenters of this year’s Campanadas on RTVE.
It would have been, without a doubt, the television bombshell of this Christmas. However, RTVE has been categorical: Isabel Pantoja is not going to present the Chimes of La 1 nor is there any type of negotiation underway that could lead to this.
In fact, sources close to the public entity assured this newspaper this morning not only that they had not heard anything about the information from Diez Minutos but also that “it would be something impossible”, since “it would cost a lot of money, and this is a television not a private channel”.
According to the magazine’s information, the negotiations between the tonadillera and RTVE would be very advanced “on both sides.” However, the Public Corporation has categorically and officially denied that there is even any type of negotiation.
Diez Minutos assures in its information, from sources close to the tonadillera, that “the negotiations were going smoothly” and that for Isabel Pantoja this would be a job “the result of the most absolute desperation, given the suffocating financial quagmire in which she is mired. “.
The Treasury has seized all of Isabel Pantoja’s income as a natural person, except for the amount corresponding to the minimum interprofessional salary so that she can survive. It seems that the artist’s financial problems are not going to be solved with RTVE.
And the public channel does not even know yet who will be the presenters of the Chimes that will usher in the new year. There are many rumors that suggest that after this summer’s success of El Grand Prix, Ramón García could present the Chimes again, but the entity assures that they still do not have the names or anything closed.
In fact, La 1 is the only network of the three main networks that has yet to reveal its presenters for the most special night of the year. Telecinco announced a couple of weeks ago that Jesús Calleja and Marta Flich will be in charge of welcoming the year 2024 from Seville. While Cristina Pedroche has already confirmed that she will once again be on Antena 3’s Campanadas.
Last year, the public channel chose Ana Obregón and Los Morancos, three very familiar faces to bid farewell to 2022. In fact, last year’s Campanadas confirmed the defeat of Cristina Pedroche and Alberto Chicote after beating La 1. Although both networks lost viewers, Antena 3 won the New Year’s Eve crown with more than 6.6 million viewers on average compared to the almost 4.5 million that Ana Obregón and the Cadaval brothers gathered.
The truth is that Isabel Pantoja’s option would have been quite a coup, although it is not very clear if it would have served to recover the throne of the Campanadas, since the year that Isabel Pantoja presented together with Jorge Javier Vázquez the victory was stop at La 1 with Anne Igartiburu and José Mota.
The first time that Antena 3 was the most chosen channel to watch the Chimes, it was welcoming the year 2022, the year of Cristina Pedroche’s metamorphosis. Chicote and the presenter broke their record again and achieved an average audience of 7.5 million, while TVE’s 1 became the second most watched for the first time in its history with 4.8 million.