Pedro Piqueras’s confession shortly after his 68th birthday: “I’d rather be fired than retire”

Shortly after turning 68, Pedro Piqueras is in top form. All you have to do is see him accompany the great Jesús Calleja on his adventures around the La Palma volcano. His audience ratings on the 9 p.m. news program plunged after Telecinco lost the rights to Pass word and its competition, vincent valles It doubles from Antena 3 and even triples the number of viewers, but the man from Albacete knows that he is doing just as well as always and that it is not his fault for the disaster.

After months of comments about his replacement, weeks ago he was confirmed in his position because the new management of the chain wants him to continue directing the information services of Mediaset. contemporary of the ousted Paul Vasily, He already talks about retirement; Let’s not forget that he is two years away from entering his seventies. but for now Pedro Piqueras not only continues at the foot of the canyon in the newscasts, immune to the low audiences that devastate his chain, but it multiplies and this Wednesday he was the star of Planet Calleja. He says he’d rather be fired than retire. “When one day, far away, I stop working, I imagine a life like this, with friends, on some sidewalks, having a drink.”

“There are many things that you miss going out at ten at night every day. For example, you miss the first course of any dinner, because almost all your friends, when you arrive, are almost at dessert. Going to the movies on a Thursday in the afternoon, or the day of the spectator, I don’t know what it is. I haven’t raised my son.”

“I don’t regret what I’ve done, I regret what I haven’t done. You miss out on a lot.” “I am not addicted to work, but I have always liked it a lot. I have a very divided life: one is work, to which I dedicate myself intensely, and then part of my life is with friends, and they are the usual friends “.

Calleja investigates the private life of Piqueras

“We don’t know anything about you. We don’t know if you’re married or have children,” Calleja asked his fellow traveler. “I don’t want it to be known. I was married and now I have another type of non-marital relationship. I sometimes establish a wall to protect the people who are with me. Those of us who dedicate ourselves to this have established that kind of wall, as Matías Prats or Ana Blanco”, he answered.

Calleja asked if Piqueras had “premarital relations” when he was young. “Yes, but I’m not going to tell you that part. You can imagine, like any normal person,” replied the presenter, after referring to an anecdote with Antonio Resines, when they both “linked” with two girls, and one was his girlfriend and the other the current couple of the protagonist of The Serranos.