Anne Igartiburu turned 54 splendid years last February and as a gift they gave him to understand on TVE that, after a quarter of a century being the visible face of Heart, and of the chain, the situation was going to change.
The Biscayan woman has been the great presenter of the public channel, the one responsible for giving the New Year’s Eve Chimes, one of the great moments of any channel, as shown by Cristina Pedroche and their abracadabrant dresses.
That February notice, which had been chewing for months, is being fulfilled and the marriage from TVE and Anne Igartiburu is about to end in divorce. It is the romance that has lasted the longest for Elorrio, much longer than any of her known relationships, including those of her two husbands, the dancer Igor Yebra, with whom he married in 2004 to separate in 2006; and that of the conductor Pablo Heras-Married, with whom she secretly married on November 30, 2015 to break up in 2021.
Yes, TVE has been the great love of Anne Igartiburu but the flame of telepassion it has died down between the Basque and the Corporation and for some time now, with each passing day, it is further away from reviving. The latest data on the salaries shown that TVE had to show show it off.
Only fifteen salaries have been made public (and the main ones have been left). One of them was that of Anne: “Something that until recently would not have happened. She was very protected and all of her seems to indicate that she has lost that protection,” she confirms to Informalia an internal source of the chain. And it is that the repeated flirtations of the presenter with other means put jealous to the current heads of RTVE. “These flirtations did not like their bosses at all”, they assure us.
“The presenter began to lose points when she decided, without giving options, to accept doing more work in other chains such as Mask Singer o Your face is familiar to me on Antena 3 o 10 Moments on Telemadrid”. Until then, Anne was a face closely linked to the public channel, which incomprehensibly is losing almost all familiar faces. Anne was the image of TVE, as it could be Anne White, who has been the face of the network’s news for more than 30 years. Nobody could imagine them presenting any other news program on Telecinco or Antena 3 or participating in another format outside of the public corporation. In fact, according to what was published, the contract that Anne had with the public corporation at that time did not allow her to work in other channels that were not regional and she not only did so but, apparently, did not communicate it in writing.
“This created a malaise among the directors of the chain that has completely changed their relationship with Anne. Take away the chimes this year It was a consequence of all this. And it should not be ruled out that he will leave the public channel shortly”. In fact, last season they canceled their daily broadcast Heart, the mythical space for society figures with more than 30 years on the air. Who does not remember Anne opening the program with her phrase: Hello hearts?
Now it maintains the weekend presentation, the only one that exists, heir to the mythical Heart heart, released 30 years ago by the hand of Cristina Garcia Ramos. Anne already knows that her farewell is in the offing. Renewals in this format are not annual. They are done every three months and at any moment they could decide to end the program or the presenter and then the phrase will be “goodbye hearts”.
Continuous disasters on TVE
The public is going through a delicate moment with numbers and with identity. It hardly has any familiar faces and those that it has tried to import have some regrettable audience data: Julia Otero, Toñi Moreno o Maria Married they are the proof. they have left Carlos Franganillo, the incombustible Jordi Hurtado, Jacob Petrus and a little more. If we save the soap opera The promise, which works well, every release this winter has been a flop: all against one, presented by Raúl Gómez and Rodrigo Vázquez, has been cancelled, the overpriced and disappointing TV days, with Julia Otero, said goodbye on April 12 with just over 7% audience. Worse was the bump of Let’s get along con Ana Morgade, that in its first and only program it made 4.8%, and they decided to cancel it directly. Another destruction has been Cover Night, which has marked shares of 5.8%. They didn’t work either Now or never con Monica Lopez in front; 10,000 days, with Carlos Franganillo, who did not reach 5%, although the public admitted that it was made with great quality. Dustinto is the case afternoon plans, con Toni Moreno, which in its last record did not reach 7% on average, but which, inexplicably, seems to be given a chance for the moment. And the worst: the jewel in the crown of the house, Masterchef, suffers the consequences of a debatable decision such as dividing its broadcast into two installments, and is setting all-time lows.
TVE is giving its grill a tour and they have not counted on Anne for any of their new bets. “And they won’t count,” they assure us. She has gone ahead looking for projects in which they tell us that “we will be able to see her soon”, without specifying. Until now, she is focused on collaborating with some brands and on her Instagram account, acting as a psycho-emotional coach, in which she has been trained. She is actually giving talks as well. And she just published the book life begins every day. Without a doubt, Anne’s working life will start again outside of TVE and the signing of her by a private channel will surprise more than one.