“There is an assault on my private life,” declare Sonsoles Onega; and he says it no less than from the temple of the famousMagazine Hola, the epicenter of the social chronicle, the place where the private lives of the best-known and most important people are talked about and photographed. The weekly publishes this Wednesday one more interview of the many that the journalist and writer, brand new winner of the Planeta award with her novel The Maid’s Daughters, is giving. The author, who turns 46 this November 30, combines the promotion of the work with the presentation of her daily magazine show on Antena 3. Sonsoles Ónega obtains good audience data and wins over her former boss and competitor Ana Rosa Quintana, weighed down by the duration of its program (one hour longer than its former employee), several advertising cuts (the Sonsoles program does not have it), the Telecinco average (several points below the main Atresmedia channel) and a very effective context in the grid: Yo Ahora Sonsoles is sandwiched between the soap opera and the infallible Pasapalabra.
But without a doubt, the best asset that Sonsoles Ónega’s victory gives each afternoon is its content: current events, some humor, events and a lot. famous They are the basic ingredients of the invention. To snoop into the private lives of famous people, Antena 3 surrounded Sonsoles with leading figures in the social chronicle, some of them from The Ana Rosa Program, like Beatriz Cortázar or Paloma García Pelayo, two of the greats in the cuore business. Paloma is also the director of Look, the cuore news portal that the agency Gtres prepare for OK Diary. Gtres is the medium that caught Genoveva Casanova con Frederick of Denmark in Madrid, the Lecturas report, the same one that photographed Ana Obregon in Miami leaving the Miami clinic with her daughter-granddaughter and was the cover of Hola. It is directed by another great of the heart and a member in this case in the production company of Ana Rosa Quintana: journalist Sandra Aladro. Curiously, it is the same agency that, as Sonsoles says, “assaulted” the “private life” of the Planeta winner by photographing her with her boyfriend, days after we discovered the presenter’s new love from this website. Photos of the little daughter Fernando Onega and Soledad Salcedo (first wife of the Galician journalist) were published in Ten minutes, that brought the issue to its cover, as we gathered, and confirmed the identity of Juan, the financier the presenter is dating.
“Gift? Gifts do not pay the Treasury”
In the responses he dedicates to Hola, They ask the writer if the Planet “has been an early birthday gift2 and Sonsoles responds like this: “There is a lot of work, some sleepless nights, and the sometimes tortuous path of Literature,” she says. “If you want to see it as a gift, very good, but gifts do not pay the Treasury”, judgment. The award is the literary prize with the largest financial award, one million euros. Asked how she is going to spend that fortune, Sonsoles remembers that she has not yet collected it but gives clues to her intentions: I have many debts and I will pay off some,” she says. What ninety percent of Spaniards owe are houses. I have a mortgage, like everyone else; so I will try to cover some holes”, be honest.
Another possible source of income, apart from her good salary as a presenter (she was a star signing for Atresmedia), is the possibility of the successful Las hijas de la criada becoming a series. “There is interest from some production companies,” admits Sonsoles. “I like that it happens because it hasn’t happened to me before with any book. I would love to see my characters on screen and learn how a script is made,” she explains. “But there is nothing yet,” she clarifies.
Sonsoles Ónega and his generous assets: one million euros for the Planeta Prize and up to three homes in Madrid
About his friendship with Doña Letizia, Sonsoles comments on the surprise of the visit he made when he was signing books at the Corte Inglés in Callao: “He has a brutal power in everything he does, it was bookstore day; it was a very nice gesture “He had not told me absolutely anything nor was he organized or anything like that. I would have been a little better off if I had known,” she says, admitting that she is “quite flirtatious.” It is at the end of the interview when she, asked about the price of her success, complains about the part she doesn’t like about being famous: “There is an assault on my private life,” dice.
Sonsoles began to be known to the general public in June 2015, when she changed her registration to present Already It’s Midday on Telecinco after having cut her teeth in other branches of journalism such as political information and with many hours spent in Congress. She had not worked in entertainment or gossip shows. Her father advised her: “Be yourself, be honest and use common sense.”
He followed the instructions of Fernando Ónega and it went well because the political table carried out the same thing as the so-called Fresh, the one who dealt with the private lives of famous people, the one that bothers her so much when the character is her. However, she came to present alongside Jorge Javier Vazquez The strong house, a reality with celebrity couples in Mediaset.
Born in Madrid in 1977, she followed in the footsteps of her older sister and father: she studied Journalism at the CEU San Pablo University. She worked at CNN+ in 1999, where she coincided with Letizia Ortiz, who presented the news. From there she went to Cuatro and in 2008 she joined Telecinco news where she specialized in parliamentary chronicle and she was a reporter in the Congress of Deputies for ten years.
Sonsoles was one of the witnesses for the then Princess of Asturias at her wedding in May 2004, and the current Queen attended with Don Felipe at the wedding of her good friend four years later in Galicia.
His father made speeches to Suárez: ‘I can promise and I promise’
Fernando Ónega is a journalistic reference. Born in the Lugo parish of San Salvador de Mosteiro, at the end of the seventies he worked at Cadena Ser as a political commentator and in 1981 he was appointed director of the channel’s News News, coinciding with the Coup d’état of 23-F, a position that He also later served at COPE. In 1992 he directed Onda Cero. He has also worked in television, where he has done everything, as director of External Relations for the public channel. Thirteen years later he moved to Telecinco. In 1997 he signed for Antena 3 as presenter of Antena 3 Noticias in its 9 p.m. edition.
Ónega wrote speeches for Adolfo Suárez as Press Director of the Presidency of the Government. His is the phrase ‘I can promise and I promise’, which is already the history of our country’s politics. Fernando’s brother is also a journalist. Ónega separated from his first wife, Soledad Salcedo (mother of Cristina and Sonsoles), Fernando and then began a relationship with the journalist Ángela Rodrigo for years with whom he has another son, Fernando Jr, half brother of Sonsoles and Cristina .
Since August 2019, she has not lived with her ex-husband and father of her children Yago and Gonzalo. Carlos Pardo Sanz, to whom she had been married for 11 years. They met in Madrid where he is a lawyer and has worked as managing partner of the tax area of the prestigious law firm Giménez Torres & Yufera for decades. Carlos, born in Barcelona, also has Galician family origins (his family is from near Villagarcía) so they got married in Santiago de Compostela, in July 2008. They did so in the chapel of the Compostela manor of San Lorenzo, where they also celebrated. then the wedding banquet by the chef José Manuel Ferradáns. Among those invited to the ceremony were the then Princes of Asturias, Felipe and Letizia.