“I was hurt by what he did to my husband”

Lydia Lozano’s book will be published on October 23, The revenge of the crying woman. A title loaded with intentions that gives a glimpse of what the reader will find on the inside pages. There is a chapter dedicated to Jimmy Giménez-Arnauwho died on Tuesday at the age of 80 and is being held on Wednesday at the Tres Cantos funeral home in Madrid, where friends such as Belén Esteban, María Patiño, Terelu Campos, Carlota Corredera and Kiko Matamoros have come. They have all supported the widow, Sandra Salagado, who the journalist was 35 years older than.

Lydia Lozano spoke about the charismatic commentator this Wednesday in Morning people (TVE), where he collaborates. About his book, which is already finished and can even be reserved in advance, he said: “I wrote this four months agojust as I have written about Mariñas, about Carlos Ferrando… It is part of my life on television or in radio and the press. I can’t regret something I’ve experienced.“.

Lozano’s anger with Giménez-Arnau was motivated by some statements made by the latter about Charly, Lydia’s husband: “In the book of I, Jimmy: My Life Among the Francoshe tells why he married Merry [Martínez-Bordiú]. My husband was the one who introduced Merry to me.. They were very good friends and there came a time when Jimmy did interviews and told things that weren’t true.” And she recalled: “He told terrible things and when he came on set, I left. But nothing happened. We are still good friends and he told me that he was going to tell me a joke so I could tell it to my husband.”

The wound that Jimmy inflicted on Lydia was deep: “I tell this because it is my professional life and I tell setbacks. Yesterday was a bad day for me. It is one of the grey episodes in my journalistic life.“I was very hurt by what he did to my husband, because they were close friends.”

Despite everything, Lozano has remarked on Adela González’s programme: “I’ll stick with Jimmy, who’s smart, quick on set, and has a British and acidic sense of humor.”.

The synopsis of the journalist’s book reads as follows: “Her tears have been nuggets of gold for the audience. But she is much more than Save memuch more than the creator of the chuminero or the journalist who always cries in front of the cameras. Lydia Lozano is part of the history of our television and the gossip press. Her resume has years of exclusives and anecdotes. After decades of experience, the journalist, away from the spotlight and without interruptions, tells us her version of the story.” And she concludes: “The time has come to write down in black and white all those things that I was never able to say on a set”.