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If you made Fernando Simón talk to a diving team and even underwater in the middle of a pandemic, what would he not be able to do Jesús Calleja with Miguel Ángel Revilla, one of the most mediatic politicians and television fans who convinced the presenter to travel to his land. With the president of Cantabria out of his comfort zone, sweating the fat drop on his ascent to a mountain to discover caves and stories about the Civil War, the adventurer opens, tonight at Cuatro (21.30), the eighth season of ‘Planet Calleja’, whose last installment garnered just over a million viewers. «It is the most emotional program that I have shot in my life. I never cried so much», Admits the presenter.
The true merit of the Leonese mountaineer is not, however, to challenge celebrities of all kinds to great challenges, who try harder and complain less than Telecinco’s ‘Survivors’ in idyllic national and international settings. By challenging his guests to extreme activities, Jesús Calleja gets what he nor the feared polygraph of Conchita in ‘Save me’: that the ‘celebrities’ forget the camera, open their hearts and be close, thus revealing intimate details far from the corset of the sets.
«We filmed in post-pandemic conditions, where everyone’s feelings were altered and that has made us reflect on where we are going and the priorities of life“, Says the presenter, who admits that he does not do interviews, but wastes” empathy “:” That’s how the conversations go. ”
The presenter from Leon, expert in bringing out the most intimate emotions of famous people that accompany him, will also make the viewer travel without leaving home, in a particularly difficult year in which dreaming has been easier than catching a plane or moving between communities. The eighth season of ‘Planeta Calleja’ has been perhaps the most difficult, due to the contingencies, but Cuatro’s off-road vehicle never lowers his head. «We had more precautions, but we are not afraid. It is scary on Everest, in the Arctic mountains. Here we chose countries that are freer from Covid, where everything was stable, so we had no problem, “clarifies Jesús Calleja, who acknowledges that eThe most complex program was that of Kiko Rivera, not because of his conversations about Isabel Pantoja – «the longest breaks I’ve ever made in my life have been with him; it has such shocking stories that they overwhelm you »- but because of the situation in Nepal, where they recorded the episode that will be broadcast in the ninth season of the program. “We had to change dates, speed up filming and come back because we sensed what could happen.”
In a year of coronavirus, even if you can travel, the biggest challenge could not be other than the protocol for entering and leaving different countries. In Iceland, where he invited Willy Bárcenas – «he is the son of who he is, he has not chosen where to be born and he has to adapt to the situation that has touched him»-, they did several PCRs, one of them in the frozen street, at 18 degrees below zero; On the exotic islands of São Tomé and Príncipe, Jesús Calleja admits that “Maribel Verdú’s screams were heard” when he saw that the test of rigor was with a homemade cotton swab with a giant cotton ball. “I have recorded a ‘making off’ with all the strange protocols that they did to us”.
The most charismatic adventurer in MediasetAble to live these “experiences” with politicians, singers or one of the highest paid stars in Hollywood, he has managed to get “the beautiful and stylish” Paula Echevarría to change her beloved beach for the wildness of the savannah. In the only program shot before the pandemic, Calleja took the actress and her partner to Kenya, where they listened to lions and had the instinct that “something crazy was going to happen.” Days later, confinement was imposed.
Those who resist
In the eight shows of the new season of ‘Planet Calleja’, made in collaboration with Zanskar Producciones and which can be seen at Mitele plus before its open premiere in Cuatro, there will be no shortage of exotic destinations such as Maldives, with laughter by Toni Acosta and Silvia Abril; the most surprising confessions of Santi Millán in Ethiopia and chef Ángel León in Dubai, and the revelation of Omar Montes, whom Calleja took to Swedish Lapland: “It leaves no one indifferent.”
It has been able to circumvent the mobility restrictions of the pandemic, but Jesús Calleja is not invincible. He says that almost all his guests become “friends” after the experience of the program, but, for now, celebrities such as Antonio Banderas and also Miguel Bosé, who he promises to invite again despite disagreeing with his denial, have resisted him: ” No matter who it costs, vaccines are the only solution; I am absolutely against the statements of Miguel Bosé, you cannot think that, I am respectful of everyone, but science is science, you have to have a culture about it ».
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