From ideal son-in-law to enemy of the people. This is how the image of the presenter has deteriorated The Conqueror, Julian Iantzi, who, at 55 years old, and after more than two decades achieving success in Euskal Telebista, has once again tried to make the jump to the first division of the television arena.
But, once again, he has done so without luck: on TVE he is failing with the national version of the format produced by Globomedia (Mediapro), and hosted by the Californian (from Navarre by adoption) along with Raquel Sánchez Silva with more than discreet audience ratings for a space that costs more than 400,000 euros per delivery. It already happened on Antena 3 (with Jesús Mariñas and María Patiño, in What a couple of three, and in the reality With you until the end of the world), Cuatro (with the scientist Brainac) and La Sexta (the contest The infernal wall).
But if the national bet has gone wrong again, Basque public television is nothing to write home about: ETB has removed it from its successful regional version as punishment for having agreed to present the state one. The singer of Los Zopilotes Çirriaos He offered a harsh speech shortly before starting a concert and uttered serious insults towards the presenter, even wishing him dead. His death was invented on social media and his salary on TVE, real or false, has earned him more than one enemy. It was said that Sánchez Silva charged 98,000 euros for the two months of recordings in the Dominican Republic and Julian Iantzi added 68.282,64 euros, 30,000 less than her partner. But he has denied it. In any case, it is true that each of the programs that Jaume Roures sells costs 403,972 and that the entire season costs 5,653,101.07 euros.
“Julian Iantzi is a rat and a fucking bastard”
The reason that apparently led ‘Konejo’ Eseberri, singer of the aforementioned Navarrese-Mexican group to say such atrocities is that in the early nineties the presenter was active in the PNV youth, and asked for the closure of the Abertzale newspaper. do it “There was a shitty youth, a political movement that asked for the closure of the Egin newspaper, and among them was the fucking Julian Iantzi, who is a rat and a fucking bastard. There were people arrested, there were people tortured and there were people murdered in the fucking prison. It’s very nice to see the guy with his shitty highlights, who looks like a surfero shitty. The guy on top of that goes with the banner of being self-employed. But what the hell are you doing, you fucking bastard? How are you self-employed? “You’re a fucking rat,” he said.
But the unjustifiable disqualifications of ‘Konejo’ did not stop there and in front of his fans, in the middle of a concert, he went further and crossed all the red lines: “It would be cool if it were clear to you that there are people who have fought for this town, for “Make it nicer, so that the truth is more emphatic, and all this fucking rabble, all these people, too much. They should be six feet down, what the Mexicans would say. There were Egin leaders who ended up in the maco.”
And he concluded: “All these historical moves must be seen with perspective, because it is very easy to talk now. No, at the time they were there, shoulder to shoulder and heart to heart, I shit God. Julian Iantzi, fuck you, bastard. Rat!”
The response of Julian Iantzi
The ETB and TVE presenter answered him from Onda Vasca: “I already know what I have to do and I’m going to do it. I’m not even going to answer him, I’m not going to get involved. He doesn’t even know what he’s talking about. Obviously I’m going to go to court and go all out. “To a guy who is wishing death on me, six feet under, let someone come and bite him, someone brush my lining, which are Mexican terms.”
“He’s directly threatening me with death, he’s wanting me to be cut into pieces, and it’s not just the song, it’s the whole thing.” speech former. And he is doing it at all the concerts, which I had already received,” she assured.
The adoptive presenter from the Navarrese town of Lesaka added: “Freedom of expression? There is, but I say it will go to a certain point. Someone will decide if this is freedom of expression or if three towns have been passed. And, if it has been After three towns, you will have to pay it. You have to start doing something, because not everything is worth it. I don’t care about being insulted in my salary. You can be very critical, I accept criticism, from a constructive side. No “I accept the insult.”
A very complicated month
September was a difficult month for Iantzi, who saw that it was spread on social networks that he had died: “Calm down because I’m still alive, kicking and also happy! What do we do with this? What intention is there? Is it because of The Conqueror“?” The communicator was also upset because the Tvienes portal broadcast what he charged for presenting El Conquistador on TVE.
“It’s a lie, the salaries are public. I don’t know where the figure comes from, what they have published is a lie. It does a disservice to the serious press. There comes a time when you pick up a newspaper and, from the start, you ask yourself if they are lying to you,” he said.
No ‘bad cop’ in the north
His role as a ‘bad cop’ in ETB’s star program already cost him trouble last year: he received threats and he also hinted that he was going to go to court to defend himself: “I’m coming for you! Let everyone know that “These insults can be reported and whoever makes them will have to dig deep into their pockets.”
This year Iantzi said goodbye to the Basque version of reality show: “Very, very much to my regret, it is my last final and it will be my last edition as presenter of The Conqueror. Life goes in cycles and my cycle has lasted 19 years,” he lamented.
In the Basque newspaper Berria stated that he had been “working for Spanish television networks for years and until now there have been no problems. They have their reasons. I listened to them and that’s all. We are professionals and sometimes they hire us and decide whether or not to renew the contract. After 19 years, ETB has decided that it is time to make a change.” ETB2 has commissioned a contest with a lower profile than his previous project, the contest This house is a mine, that will premiere this season.