‘Pinocchio’, the alleged brother of Anabel Pantoja, on the warpath: “Bernardo told me to fight for my last name”

Luis Manuel ‘Pinocchio’ (38) sat this Friday in the Deluxe to speak openly about her desire to have a DNA test with Anabel Pantoja (36) and thus confirm that they are brothers. According to him, it was his own Bernardo Pantoja who recognized that he was his son and who, before dying, encouraged him to fight for his last name.

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“In 2017, in the middle of breakfast with Junko, Bernardo told me that he had a friendly relationship with my mother and that I was born as a result of that relationship,” he says. Information that Pinocchio later asked her mother and she, far from confirming or denying, she began to cry and asked him for forgiveness. his mother is Josefa Rico and was a neighbor of the late Bernardo, who died in November of last year. Rico was present at the mass that Junko organized in her honor in December, in Triana.

Luis confessed that he has in his possession a DNA test that he did without the permission of the brother of Isabel Pantoja and that the results prove him right. “The problem with the test is that it is done in my name and that of an anonymous donor. We planned to do it together (with Bernardo), but it got complicated. I collected his samples in a bar and did the procedure,” he explained.

According to him, taking the test with his niece has no interest beyond recognizing his origins: “I don’t care about the last name Pantoja, it’s the least of it. I want them to recognize my origins. I do it for my mother and because Bernardo At the time, he told me.” Luis Manuel does not understand Anabel’s change in attitude towards him. He affirms that they had always had a good relationship and that everything changed when she recorded a television program Who is my father?the format that presented Charlotte Sliding about alleged illegitimate children and was canceled due to low ratings after only a few installments.