It was May 23 when they sat down The Anthillan entertainment program, with the sole objective of talking about their relationship and defending themselves from the criticism they have received since the bullfighter separated from Paloma Cuevas (51) in summer 2020.
It was about 30 minutes of friendly interview in which Enrique Ponce (52) y Ana Soria (24) they fired at the press and the “people” who have “slandered and mistreated them” during their more than three-year relationship. They did not even name the businesswoman from Córdoba, with whom the right-hander shared almost 25 years of marriage and has her two daughters, little Palomita and Bianca.
The young woman from Almería defended what was hers without further ado: “I wanted them to know me because there are many people who have given me a lot of love, they talk about me without knowing me. When I fall in love with him I become someone I know without being able to choose. “We have been enduring many things that hurt for three years and I wanted people to see that I am a normal girl, with feelings and judge me by what comes out of my mouth here today,” she said.
And he charged against the press: “There is a part of the press that has mistreated us a lot, we have been characters, not people. We weren't prepared to manage that and I leaned on him a lot. I have gone to therapybecause the situation was affecting me a lot and I didn't have the tools to manage it.”
The age difference
They also defended themselves against criticism for their age difference, a total of 27 years: “Love is not thought, it is something that is felt, and what is not an impediment for us should not be an impediment for anyone else. He is much most active, is the one that pulls me. Love is free and everyone should fall in love with whoever they want.“Soria said. “Age is just a number”Ponce explained. “Age is in the head, in the spirit, in the spirit.”
The beginnings of their love story
They did not talk about dates, because they have always maintained that their courtship began after the separation between Ponce and Cuevas. In any case, this is how they recounted the beginnings of their love story: “I went bullfighting in Almería and I saw her on the line. She noticed it. I asked a friend about her and I got a great job”Ponce said between laughs.
“I realized that he was looking at me and I felt embarrassed, but in a moment their glances met and I felt a crush. Our first date was dinner in a booth and he kept telling me that his sister was a lawyer. I was very nervous. Heart pounding. Before that we had been talking on the phone a lot,” the right-hander also recalled.
When they start?
Ponce said that the day he started flirting with Ana, the day when their eyes met and love sparked in them, it was during a bullfight in Almería in which he became very motivated: “That day I cut off four ears”, said the teacher on the set of Antena 3. Unless he lied or was wrong, The last time Ponce cut off four ears in Almería was on August 24, 2017. Ana Soria was just 18 years old and he would still boast of being a faithful exemplary husband for almost three more years.
After the confusion that arose, Soria wrote on his networks: “To the sad ones. Enrique remembers that he triumphed and came out on his shoulders, but damn, he doesn't remember the exact number of ears. So Tell me how many were cut at the 2019 Almería Fair and we're done with the topic. That's the year, handsome ones.”
According to Ana, the bullfight in which love emerged was celebrated on August 19, 2019 with Núñez Del Cuvillo bulls. Enrique and Paloma, at this time, had not separated either. In fact, on November 15, 2019, three months after that crush, the still husband and wife appeared in public and posed with Javier Conde at the premiere of the musical Chorus Line in Malaga. The newspaper library, in short, does not forgive. The separation was not known until July 2020, when he announced it Week.
