After ten years at the helm of The Hormiguero, Pablo Motos He has many anecdotes behind him that occurred on the set, as well as a huge list of renowned guests from both our country and internationally. Actors, musicians, athletes, singers, politicians, television stars or journalists have sat in front of Trancas and Barrancas, just as Javier Gutiérrez and Karra Elejalde did in the last program. However, there is a person that Pablo Motos remembers with special affection, since his time on the program was a great professional leap for the presenter’s career. That was, nothing more and nothing less than, ¡Will Smith! Or as Motos has preferred to call it: “the stroke of luck that changed his life. “
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The presenter wanted to ask the guests what the event or person had been that had been a turning point in their lives, changing them for the better. To do this, Motos told an anecdote about the recently deceased Larry King, who saw how success came to his professional career when Frank Sinatra gave him an interview on his local radio show. Comparing this story with his own, the driver of The Hormiguero said that to him The exact same thing had happened to the American communication starOnly instead of Frank Sinatra, his story was starring actor Will Smith.
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“That was his stroke of luck and I had one just like it. My stroke of luck was Will Smith because, when he came, he sang the Brave bull from El Fary and that made me exist in Spain and in Hollywood. That was my stroke of luck and, from that moment on, nothing was the same “, Pablo Motos revealed with a huge smile on his face. It is true that since that episode in 2009, there have been several encounters between the actor of The prince of Bel Air and the presenter, as well as the American’s visits to the program, the last with Martin Lawrence in January of last year.
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But this was not the first time that Pablo Motos has applauded the role of Will Smith in The Hormiguero praising his friend. In 2019 and during the visit of Paulina Rubio, Luis Fonsi, Antonio Orozco and Pablo López to promote The voice, the presenter announced the special for the 2000 program of the late show in which, of course, would be Will Smith. Already on that occasion, he did not hesitate refer to him as “his guardian angel”, explaining that there was a before and after their first visit and that it was precisely the actor who helped him arrange visits from Hollywood stars like Harrison Ford.
Words that have been mutual, since, in the different visits of Will Smith, he has told him phrases in Spanish as remarkable as “Pablo, you are my brother” when in 2013 he went to The Hormiguero with his son. In fact, one of the most memorable moments in the history of the show was precisely that anniversary, when they had to travel to London and record it there so that the American actor could be part of it, this being Smith’s sixth contact with the Antena 3 format.
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