Herpetologist Frank Cuesta is one of the most charismatic and followed television characters on television and social networks. His great leap to fame occurred no less than 12 years ago, at least in Spain, because before that it was already known in Thailand.
On September 28, 2009 a chapter of the program was broadcast Stray Travelers dedicated to Bangkok (T2 / 19), in which Frank Cuesta appeared as one of the Spaniards who acted as guides to the program team in the capital of Thailand.
“We set up a tennis academy here five years ago and part of this, an association that I am dedicated to collecting reptiles within the city“, Frank Cuesta appeared at that time, in a fragment of the program in which he is the protagonist and that barely lasted three and a half minutes.
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Frank, accompanied by the reporter of the program, went to the house of a guy where a cobra had appeared. Shortly after, he showed the snake bites on camera that he had on his body and by then he also wore his inseparable rubber clogs, his white T-shirt and his cap.
However, Frank Cuesta already had a certain fame in Thailand, where had already appeared on television rescuing animals and dealing with snakes, to the point that several local newspapers had even published bets on when he would die bitten by a serpent.
In addition, her relationship with Yuyee, a well-known Thai model and singer, had given her a certain notoriety. “Here’s the boss”, he would introduce her to the cameras, when they were still married then.
The fact is that that first appearance caught on and in Mediaset they knew how to see its potential so that shortly after, in 2010, it would arrive Frank from the jungle, a Four program in which Frank Cuesta showed the Thai fauna and from other places. He also stood before the camera to The jungle at home and Natural Frank.
The lack of agreement with Mediaset on certain aspects made Cuesta free and your successful collaboration with DMAX emerged, where between 2014 and 2020 was issued Wild Frank and various spinoffs and specials.
The television career of the Leon presenter was awarded, for example, in the 58th edition of the Ondas Awards, in 2011, when they recognized the effort of the Frank from the jungle giving him the award for Innovation in Television.
However, not all were joys in this long decade. Cuesta’s life and career were marked by the cancer that the presenter had to overcome and by the arrest and conviction of his now ex-wife, Yuyee, for allegedly trafficking 0.005 grams of cocaine, after a judicial process of doubtful validity and after a confrontation between Cuesta with the animal trafficking mafias. Six years later and after an incessant media, judicial and diplomatic struggle by Cuesta, Yuyee was released.
Now Frank focuses on his new Shrine, a gigantic tract of land on which he has built a recovery center and residence of exotic animals, while he takes care of his YouTube channel, voluntarily separated from television, a medium to which he does not want to return for the moment.
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