Pablo Motos draws the attention of many viewers in Spain with ‘El Hormiguero’. The host of this format, originally from Requena, has managed to position the interview programme as the most watched in our country, attracting millions of viewers every day. Although the presenter has always maintained a close relationship with his audience, it is surprising that so little is known about his personal life.
The controversial figure of the communicator has not at all broken Motos’ discretion regarding his private life. For almost three decades, the owner of the production company ‘7 and action’ shares his life with Laura Llopisscript coordinator of his program, whom he married in a secret wedding. Before meeting her, the presenter I had already been marriedalthough he has rarely spoken about this situation that represented a “failure” in his life.
We tell you everything you need to know about Pablo Motos, his relationship with his current wife, the house worth more than 2 million in which they live and his life before meeting her.
25 years with Laura Llopis and a secret wedding
They have passed more than 25 years since Pablo Motos and Laura Llopis crossed paths for the first time, long before the acclaimed communicator rose to fame. It was in 1997, when the Valencian was still working at the subsidiary of Wave Zero in Valencia directing programs such as ‘Aquí hay más de uno’, ‘Mareando la perdiz’ or ‘Hacia el dos mil’. There, on the airwaves, both coincided and were never separated again.
«We met on the radio, in Valencia, I was the presenter and she was in production.“, recalled the Valencian when talking about his love story. However, things were not reciprocal from the start: “I liked her, but she passed by.. The greatest contempt is nothing compared to hers. One day I thought I couldn’t die without kissing her,” he commented then, before having taken the plunge.
Motos is not a man who gives up easily, as he has shown, and he insisted on winning her over with small gestures: “Once he commented that it was very cold, and I ran out and bought him a heater. Then, for the first time She looked at me, I looked at her and love at first sight arose“, she said during her program. A nice gesture that had nothing to envy her first kiss, which happened in the presenter’s car: “We entered a roundabout and I asked her if she liked it or not. She said ‘well’… And I didn’t even take the roundabout, I walked straight ahead, stopped and kissed her».
Pablo Motos with his wife, Laura Llopis, in Pronto magazine
From that moment on, both began a relationship and have shown that love and work can be mixed with excellent results. In fact, Llopis is script coordinator at ‘El Hormiguero’ for years, although he has always avoided the public spotlight and has wanted stay discreet First of all: “If I tell my wife on social media ‘I love you’, the next thing she answers is ‘are you an idiot?'”
Such is the intention to keep her private life separate from her husband’s public figure that both decided to marry secretly in a civil ceremony: «We got married in secretwe didn’t feel like having a party. At the courthouse they took me in through the back, we went through some very strange rooms and they took me upstairs,” Motos recalled. After getting married, they also avoided celebrations: “We ate paella, drank and went home.».
Your luxurious 300 square meter house
The couple has not wasted any of the presenter’s success in his professional life. With the fortune they have amassed during this decade, the couple bought a flat a few years ago. 300 square meterslocated in the Madrid neighborhood of Salamanca. This property, located in a historic building and valued at about two million eurosis located very close to the Withdrawal.
As the presenter has shown on his social networks on occasion, the house that Pablo Motos and Laura Llopis share has all kinds of comforts. Likewise, the presenter’s posts have also given a glimpse of some of the corners of his home, such as the office, the large living room in light tones, details of some of his guests on ‘El Hormiguero’ and even a wall full of guitars.
Pablo Motos’ stepdaughters work at ‘El Hormiguero’
Laura Llopis is not the only woman in Pablo Motos’ life. Although the presenter has no biological childrenhas shown that he loves his two stepdaughters as if they were. The young women, the result of a past relationship of the presenter’s wife, also work for ‘El Hormiguero’: «One is a scriptwriter and the other is in props“They are very beautiful, two talented girls and, above all, very good people,” said the Requena native in an interview with Bertín Osborne.
Pablo Motos had a complicated divorce
Before meeting his current wife, Pablo Motos was married for several years and went through a complicated divorce about which he has rarely spoken. However, he did so during the interview with Dulceida and Alba Paul on his program, who came to talk about his new podcast and the «second chances» after their temporary separation. On this subject, the presenter opened up for the first time about how the relationship was separation from his ex-wife.
«I really like the subject. I think we could do a bit of therapy because there will be millions of people, this program is watched by many people, who are either in a position to do so and are thinking about it. [el separarse] and you don’t know what’s going to happen, or you’ve already done it and you’re in that moment of vertigo “You don’t know what’s going to happen either, because it’s like the ground is being taken away from you,” began the Valencian, before becoming the first to give his point of view.
The presenter recalled this moment with great nostalgia, assuring that he felt somewhat freer once it was resolved: “When I separated, in order, the first thing you feel when you separate, without lies, is release. There was a release in my case, as if a weight had been lifted off my shoulders, mixed with quite a bit of guilt. And a little bit of it too feeling of failure“, explained the man from Requena.
