Jorge Javier Vazquez A new stage begins this Monday on Telecinco after it disappeared from the screen overnight last May. The presenter, absent for a baja medical, was not present at the farewell Save me and not in the goodbye of the Deluxe. Little has been heard from him in recent months, but now he is back with Chinese storiesa new project that will compete against The Anthill.
With few exceptions, the new project Jorge Javier (Badalona, Barcelona, July 25, 1970) has a group of collaborators who try to distance him from the universe Save me. Susi Caramelo, Anabel Alonso, Antonio Castelo will do their part in what seems like an attempt to wipe the slate clean and forget a program that made controversy its source of energy.
It has also been the driving force of the presenter himself, who in all the programs he has presented has almost always swam in the midst of tension and controversy, with endless moments of tension, discussions and bitter confrontations. That’s how it was in Save mebut also in Here is tomato, Big Brother o Survivors.
The destiny of Save me (and Jorge Javier) was marked the day he faced Antonio Montero to stop a political comment that the presenter did not like. That day he showed his most haughty profile and shouted the controversial phrase: “This is a program of reds and faggots. Whoever doesn’t want to see us shouldn’t see us!” It was not a simple anecdote, because he angered Paolo Vasile and ‘expelled’ a part of the public, the right-wing viewers, from the program (and from the network). For many, that was the moment when the end of Jorge Javier began, a presenter who has always made clear his way of imposing his opinion. “I’m the little dictator, yes, I don’t cheat and this is what it is,” he said in an interview. An expression, “little dictator”, that he has used for himself on more than one occasion.
He has had more fights on the sets. Another of the most remembered is the one between him and Aída Nízar in Survivors 2011. Completely leaving aside the impartiality that he should have, he reproached the contestant’s mother for her daughter’s attitude and did so… insulting her. “If she had been on the street he would have called her a whore,” said the driver. Aída Nízar herself denounced him.
With other contestants, Lucía Pariente and Alba Carrillo, he also had a huge dispute. The presenter did not allow Pariente to question her attitude as a presenter and surprised with an outburst like few others remember on television. “I don’t threaten, I execute,” he snapped after expelling her from the set.
Jorge Javier’s most embarrassing situation as a presenter, however, occurred in the Deluxe during a tense interview with Oblivion Ants that the Catalan decided to end ahead of time. The two got into a big fight that ended with Vázquez grabbing her arm. “You are one of the dirtiest people who has ever been through Sálvame Deluxe. Fuck off! Scoundrel. “You’re already dirty!” He stated bluntly, while she defended herself against her and he continued: “How disgusting!” An attitude that was harshly criticized in the press and, evidently, on social networks.
More recent is the unpleasant collision with Paloma García Pelayo (now at Atresmedia) during an interview at Deluxe when the journalist wanted to put on the table a sentence for injuries to the guest’s ex-partner, something that Jorge Javier Vázquez tried to nip in the bud so as not to make the interviewee uncomfortable, even though he has always boasted about feminism in his programs. “This leaves us all in a very bad place,” he began by reproaching her, ending with “I wouldn’t like to coincide with you on several programs.”
On another occasion, viewers called him sexist for a comment he made on Save me when the program was celebrating International Omelet Day. Kiko Matamoros and María Patiño started cooking and Patiño couldn’t get a tortilla to turn out well. Jorge Javier made an unfortunate comment. “But what kind of woman are you?”
In GH Revolution, the presenter asked Rubén’s mother, one of the contestants, and Alyson, who was his girlfriend and contestant. “Your son has to have it big, right?”, “Rubén has it big?”, “They say that short people have it big,” were some of the embarrassing comments that the presenter made. Criticism flooded social networks. And something similar happened with the continuous comments he sent to Tom Brusse.
“I’d rather be in shit than by his side”
In Big Brother He also made an unfortunate comment in the middle of the storm over the ‘case Carlota Prado’, the contestant who suffered sexual abuse in reality. Jorge Javier presented a gala that was broadcast on Telecinco and then went to Cuatro. Just when he ‘jumped’ the channel, Vázquez made a most inappropriate joke. “It’s like when they do it to you and you don’t realize it.” Just in those days was when the case had exploded in the media.
Pantoja, Isabel Gemio and Carles Francino
Nor should we forget Jorge Javier’s brutal attack on Isabel Pantoja after the singer’s first appearance in The Anthill. Vázquez attacked the tonadillera with maximum harshness and chained an endless number of comments really impressive from the ‘pulpillo’ of Sálvame. “Once I don’t serve him he kicks me and sends me to the shit; I’d rather be in the shit than next to it,” she said. “I come from working, you from prison, from the trullo, from the dungeon! That’s where you come from,” she snapped another time. But beyond moments on the set, we have seen him publicly confront half of Spain, with disagreements with Isabel Gemio o Carlos Francino and a string of characters who once thought of giving their opinion on something they were not enthusiastic about.
Now Jorge Javier returns with Cuentos Chinos to face El Hormiguero and Pablo Motos with a format produced by La Fábrica de la tele, which is taking a chance. The set they use is not in Mediaset and they say that Jorge Javier does not set foot in Fuencarral more than is strictly necessary. He tells whoever wants to listen that these Chinese Stories are his great project, where he feels comfortable, because, as he explains, he was terrible in Sálvame. He is getting so involved that he himself is picking up phones and calling potential candidates to interview, including some important politicians who have so far said no to him. But Mediaset, La Fábrica and Jorge Javier himself already have candidates to fill their first week of battle against the ants. They say that the pilot they have presented “is fine.”
