Carlos Larrañaga and María Luisa Merlo were lovers one season when the actor was married to another

Ámparo Larrañaga went to the Sonsoles Ónega set this Monday to promote the latest season of his play, Laplandwhich is performed at the Maravillas Theater in Madrid until December 8. The actress has spoken about her parents, Carlos Larrañaga and María Luisa Merlo, and has given surprising information about them.

“My mother is 80 years old. She is splendid and continues working in the theater”has said about her mother, while highlighting the effort and dedication of her parents in the profession: “My parents have worked a lot and I remember them rehearsing all morning for TVE in Studio 1. Then they went to do theater. It was very difficult to watch them”.

“This lady’s father was the seducer of the time”Sonsoles Ónega has also said about the actor, who died in 2012 due to cardiorespiratory arrest at the age of 75. Larrañaga, for her part, recalled that her father was married four times and the presenter was interested: “Was he a real seducer?”. Amparo Larrañaga explained: “He liked all women. He was very seductive. They said he changed the thermostat in the room”.

“And your parents always got along well”Sonsoles reminded him, to which Amparo replied: “Yes, and after a woman, whose name I won’t tell you, they became lovers. We told them not to be stupid and not to hide in hotels.”she has revealed “for the first time”, as she herself has joked. “It’s very nice”Ónega said about the love story of the two legendary actors.

The two were united between 1959 and 1975. From that union Pedro (Maribel Verdú’s husband), Amparo and Luis were born, who joined the son that the actor already had from a previous relationship with the Sevillian dancer Isabel Raya, Juan Carlos ‘Kako ‘.

Later, Carlos Larrañaga remarried Ana Diosdado in 1979 and they were together until 1999. His third marriage, which began in 2000, was with María Teresa Ortiz-Bau. His fourth wife was Ana Escribano, from whom he separated in 2010 after marrying in 2006. In 2007 they had Paula, the actor’s youngest daughter, together.