Christian Gálvez remembers María Teresa Campos with great affection a year after her death: “Look, it’s enough to remember her. For me personally, and rivers of ink have been written on both sides, for me it’s that, in addition to being a teacher, she was one of the most affectionate people I have ever met on television. It’s that every time it was, hey, María Teresa has asked you for the seventeenth time to that such a happy time, I’m going. I’m going, why? Do you have something to talk about? No, but no, no, I’m going, I’m going. And, in fact, when I asked her to come to my contest, she came, a delight, and the daughters, a delight, and with me.” Even so, the presenter assures that he is very sorry about the end of the journalist’s career: “It’s not fair, but in the end we have to learn that today we are here and tomorrow we are not, and I’m not saying in life that too, that we all know how we are going to end up, right? But that today I am in boom and tomorrow I cannot be in ‘boom’, and my wish is to be in ‘boom’ for many years, but there will come a time when I am not here, or ‘Boom’ is not here or whoever is not here, right? And we have to learn that now, that is, in the end, I, for example, will never say my programme ‘Boom’. No, ‘boom’ is not mine. ‘Boom’ is a gift and it is a loan that has been given to me and I am going to squeeze it and enjoy it as much as I can, but it is not mine, it has a series of owners who will do with the programme what they want, right? And Mediaset does it in a spectacular way and I hope to do it, come on, at least 99.9% professional, right? But it is not mine. Mine, then, of course, we never want to leave TV, but TV sometimes leaves us, so the end of Maria Teresa is like the end of so many others. In the end, well, what a shame, but it is true that the wheel does not stop and at some point we stop being indispensable. We never really are, but at some point things change, for me, particularly, as a person and with the affection and admiration I had for her, well, that end made me very sad and especially the personal end, right? But well, I know that she is somewhere else, that I believe in the other side and that I am sure that she looks at all this with a big smile.” Total Christian Gálvez: – Today, when we are here at the Television Festival and a year has passed since a great colleague, María Teresa, left us. I don’t know how you remember her. – Look, it is enough to remember her. For me personally, and rivers of ink have been written on both sides, for me it is that, in addition to being a teacher, she was one of the most affectionate people I have ever met on television. It’s that every time it was, hey, María Teresa has asked you for the seventeenth time to which such a happy time, I go. I go, why? Do you have something to talk about? No, but no, no, I go, I go. And, in fact, when I asked her to come to my contest, she came, a delight, and the daughters, a delight, and with me. And also – And she was an admirer of you and your contest, because María Teresa said so. – Yes, yes, and She came and came, so I was like, what do I have to do? Just to be with her for a while, to be with her for a while, because it was And, besides, I liked the way of making television, now they make another kind of television, or she learned from, or many of us learned from, but this point of, I’m at home, quietly, here talking, and now I’ll tell you whatever, and I’ll skip the script because I feel like telling you that you’re a monkey. That naturalness seemed so, so, so, so explicit, so, so, so sincere, so true, that later she tells me that she had her genius, okay, I didn’t see the genius, and if I had seen it, I would have rubbed it and asked María Teresa for three wishes, that’s what I’m telling you. But yes, well, well, from those great professionals that makes me, makes me. Let’s see, I feel sorry for the end, I feel sorry for that end, right? And this point that people have, the need to claim things that, but in the end – It’s not fair. – It’s not fair, but in the end we have to learn that today we are here and tomorrow we are not, and I’m not saying in life that we are also here, that we all know how we are going to end up, right? But today I am in ‘Boom’ and tomorrow I can’t be in ‘Boom’, and my wish is to be in ‘Boom’ for many years, but there will come a time when I am not there, or ‘Boom’ is not there or whoever is not there, right? And we have to learn that now, I mean, in the end, I, for example, will never call my programme ‘Boom’. No, ‘Boom’ is not mine. ‘Boom’ is a gift and it is a loan that has been given to me and I am going to squeeze it and enjoy it as much as I can, but it is not mine, it has a series of owners who will do with the programme what they want, right? And Mediaset does it in a spectacular way and I hope to do it, come on, at least 99.9% professionally, right? But it’s not mine, so, of course, we never want to leave TV, but TV sometimes leaves us, so the end of María Teresa is like the end of so many others. In the end, well, what a shame, but it’s true that the wheel doesn’t stop and at some point we stop being indispensable. We never really are, but at some point things change, for me, particularly, as a person and with the affection and admiration I had for her, well, that end made me very sad and especially the personal end, right? But well, I know that she is somewhere else, that I believe in the other side and that I’m sure she looks at all this with a big smile. Images by Christian Gálvez at the FesTVal in Vitoria.
