the father of the Basque presenter dies

Anne Igartiburu (Elorrio, Vizcaya; February 18, 1969) has not had the best year of his life. Although you have experienced good times both professionally and personally, a loss will make you remember this 2024 that we now say goodbye.

She has been showing her best smile on television for more than twenty years and that is what she has also done in recent weeks, although only she and those closest to her knew that the procession was going inside. His father has died, José Manuel Igartiburu. A hard blow that leaves the Basque presenter orphaned, since her mother, Lourdes, He passed away 38 years ago, leaving Anne, her father and her brother Urko immersed in the greatest sadness. The patriarch is now the one who has left, practically without making a sound but accompanied by his loved ones, his children and his grandchildren, whom he adored; Noah, 24 years old, Carmen, 14, and little Nicolás, 9.

Anne has preferred to keep her pain in silence although she has spent a few days in her town, Elorrio, Vizcaya, perhaps to feel closer to his father. Only a few days before he went to collect the Golden Antenna for his career and there he spoke about his parents, paying them a tender tribute: “I am the daughter of a school teacher and a very anarcho man who didn’t let us watch TV, I hid it in a closet. I was going to my grandmother’s house to watch some shows,” he said, remembering those moments from his childhood.

Very recently he also wanted to talk about him on his social networks. Along with a beautiful image of the two, in their homeland, he wrote: “Walk next to you. I know that we do it less and less. And that each step is one more to give instant importance. I tell my desire that there are still walks, talks and silences. In the background our mountains. Our path. You have let me walk mine, in the distance, without overwhelming you, creating a perceptible and at the same time very lax bridge. In which we have approached when we have needed it. I like what has remained in me and what continues to emerge from your teachings. The books, the music, the poetry, the art, the sport, the attitude, the start, the criteria, the going against the current and questioning everything. The laughter and the silences. Go for a run, climb a mountain, read an essay or listen to Bach and Paco Ibañez or Laboa. Everything, everything, everything contributes. Travel by bike and interpret newspaper articles, cut out news and look for solutions to an elevation plane. Visit places, sleep outdoors and share a sandwich when you reach the top of the mountain. Everything, everything contributes and nothing falls on deaf ears. Your management of the duel and your “palante” shooting. Well, let’s move on.”

Anne was referring to the grief of her mother, Lourdes. Her disappearance was sudden and marked the life of the presenter, who was barely 16 years old, and her entire family forever. They didn’t have time to say goodbye. She was a teacher at a children’s school and a volunteer in a mountain rescue group. “The helicopter crashed… You have the satisfaction of knowing that you were doing something important for others, but it was difficult to get your head back…” Anne confessed to Bertin Osborne in Your house or mine. “The mother is missing and the axis of any family cracks and each one moves forward as best they can. I have memories of profound loneliness about my father because they were companions and I, in quotes, had to take my mother’s place,” he said. Anne had just gone to the United States to study, on a scholarship as a professional athlete, and returned as soon as possible but there she changed her life.

After studying Business Management, he decided to enroll in Dramatic Arts at the University of the Basque Country and then made the jump to television. He has been there for more than thirty years and many of them on Spanish Television. However, for some time now his professional stability has been affected. According to what they tell Informalia, Anne is not of the rope José Pablo López, new president of RTVE and it has already been shown. Since he arrived and now the presidency, he has not presented again the bells and this year they have been given to Broncano and Lalachús. Nor has he started new projects in the house, except Baila como puede, which was not liked by the public.