On April 8, the tenth anniversary of the death of Sara Montiel. The life of her son Zeus passed, a decade after the death of the legendary actress and singer, between sports, music and the project of a museum dedicated to his adoptive mother. Artist, like the protagonist of La Violetera, Zeus He alternated his work activity between his musical career and his work as a personal trainer.
But now, at 40 years old, he takes the media leap of his life after agreeing to be one of the contestants in the eighth edition of Big Brother VIP, which premieres this Thursday, with Martha Flich as a presenter.
Last spring, Sara Montiel was back in the news because her infinite fans did not forget her and we commemorated the tenth anniversary of her death, who died on April 8, 2013 at the age of 85, in her home in the Madrid neighborhood of Salamanca.
One of the objectives always pursued by Zeus has been to get rid of the label of “son of” m, as he has explained on occasions. “This already makes you have to prove twice as much, which I still don’t understand why it has to be like this,” she confessed.
Zeus All He was adopted by the actress born in Campo de Criptana with her husband Pepe Tous in 1983, four years after having adopted her sister Thais (44). Zeus decided not long ago to take the artistic surname of his mother, whom he claims to miss very much. Zeus He came to publicly acknowledge having suffered a depression when the woman from La Mancha died which led him to seek professional help. “I have gone to therapy and I have been with psychologists,” she confessed publicly. “It’s good for all of us, I’ve cried, I’ve felt frustrated and I’ve had depression,” said the brand new GH Vip contestant, who tonight will be one of the celebrities who will walk through the door of Guadalix de la Sierra’s house. .
“After so many years that have passed, and that I have obviously lived with her for so many years, now with the passage of time you realize everything she has achieved, no one has done it and no one will achieve it, I believe,” he said. of his mother, the last one who visited Telecinco, on that occasion to be interviewed in the disappeared in Friday Deluxe.
Your sister may not be too happy with the public exposure that his brother is going to undergo starting tonight. Thais avoids the media and is the one who, since 2013, has managed Sara Montiel’s estate. Zeus He spoke about his sister at the time: “She has had a bad time, just like me and just like people who have lost a father or mother. It is not something relevant, it is simply a thing of life. Normally, what happens is that it is magnified by who we are, obviously,” he said, denying that his sister had suffered from depression, as was said. Thais is not the only one who manages Sara Montiel’s inheritance: “I also intervene, but she has studied and has more knowledge to be able to manage it,” she clarified. If Zeus wanted to inherit her mother’s vocation, Thais chose to study Law. The youngest released his first album when his mother was still alive, in 2009.
Zeus and Thais get along very well: “As I have always said and will always say, he is really my only family. We support each other a lot, since my mother’s death even more. And obviously with our quarrels and arguments like all brothers, but “good,” said the new GH VIP contestant. However, the last time we saw Thaís in public was in 2017, when he and his brother had to go to trial at the Provincial Court for a fraud scam. Francisco Fernández Peñalver, the one who was the administrator of Sara Montiel and whom she herself denounced in 2010.
Zeus and his sister Thais have been trying for some time to organize a museum in Madrid of Sara Montiel’s dresses and material from her films, in addition to the one already dedicated to the actress in one of the mills in her native Campo de Criptana.
Zeus has been trying to find a niche in music for a long time, and maybe the springboard of Big Brother will help him. For a long time he abandoned the vocation inherited from his mother due to “an existential crisis”, although in April of this year he was promoting Dare again, version of the musical theme Carlos Berlanga and Nacho Canut composed in their day for the great Sara Montiel.
“I feel great pressure because I know that, inevitably, people are going to compare my song with the original,” he said months ago. “What happens is that they are very different genres. Although the essence remains, it sounds different because the type of music has changed and now the concept is disco dance,” she said.
Zeus lives in Madrid and produces his work. In April he reiterated his intentions to continue recording songs, make presentations in acoustic format and even succeed outside of Spain doing the Americas like his mother, since, as he assured, he has offers from both the United States and Latin America. “In any case, I continue to prepare myself on a vocal and interpretive level to improve day by day and not just to have to prove anything to anyone, but to prove to myself that I can achieve those goals that I set for myself in life.”
A good economic boost
In addition to the obvious personal promotion involved in entering a format like VIP Big Brother, Entering the house means a good shot of money because, sources from the production company, you confess that “it has not been easy” to have Sara Montiel’s son and that they have had to make him a generous offer. Zeus has never hidden how complicated it is to make a living from music.
Zeus is, in addition to being an artist, an exceptional athlete. “I do a lot of sports. It is my daily therapy, in which I connect with myself and disconnect from the world. Also eating a balanced diet and training are my key points to have improved in these years. The years go by and you have to take care of yourself much more than before,” explains the man who trained as a personal fitness trainer.
Sara Montiel and Pepe All They adopted Thais first, and then Zeus, after the abortions and different problems that the actress had in conceiving children. In 1979 they expanded their family with the girl, in Brazil, and four years later they did the same with Zeus in Valencia. For Sara, her children were always the most important thing in her life and she protected them until her death.