“Masterchef Celebrity will always be with me”

Jorge Javier Vazquez attended the closing ceremony of the Vitoria FesTVal to collect the award that this contest granted to Survivorsone of the programmes he presents on Telecinco. In his speech, the presenter took a dig at Mediaset for the audience crisis that the group is suffering and made fun of the crisis he experienced a year and a half ago, when he thought he was going to be fired from the channel.

“I am very happy to belong to this profession and to come to the FesTVal and meet all the colleagues whom I admire and respect. I love this profession more and more.“he said on stage, surrounded by executives and also by Mercedes Dearwith whom he had had a tense encounter during the orange carpet of the FesTVal.

“The truth is that, as we are at Telecinco, in reality shows only Supervivientes could be broadcast.“, joked the presenter about the situation of a chain that is struggling to stay afloat. And this is how he explained it to part of the Mediaset leadership: “Here we are, fighting and we will continue with great enthusiasm. Because the truth is that this profession is beautiful at any time: in the good times, in the average times and in the even more average times, because you always have hope of continuing and reaching“.

Finally, Jorge Javier laughed at his own situation, when rumors arose that he was going to be fired from Mediaset, in the spring of 2023. “Just in case, I have to get Macarena Rey’s phone number somehow.“, he said about the person in charge of Shine Iberia. “In the not-so-distant past of my professional career, I said ‘well, I’ll always have MasterChef Celebrity.“, he concluded, to the subsequent laughter of all those present.