from last Thursday has continued to feed the contents of both programs in its installments this Monday night. The La 1 space has done it with endless jokes and with the statements of its two new guests. He has confessed to being another of those banned from the Antena 3 program. And he has intervened as the wild card that David Broncano’s program has resorted to several times when it lost its interviewee at the last minute. Pablo Motos, however, has addressed the conflict with a harsher speech with which he has tried to defend himself from “the aggression that has been done to the program team,” as he explained: “It happens every day in newspapers, magazines, radio and television, and it would not enter if things had not been told to make it seem like what they are not, nor had our professionalism been doubted.”
“This has happened to anyone, but this time it has become a state issue,” Motos stated bluntly in front of the camera and alone in a speech that he left for the end, although he had primed during the program. “You have us in suspense,” said the comedian El Monaguillo at the beginning of the gathering. “I’ll tell you when we’re done,” Motos responded to keep the audience tied up. And the presenter attacked not only the competing program, but the public television system: “It is very surprising that no one from TVE has called us or Atresmedia. If it was so important, the logical thing would have been to call the other party involved. This bad journalistic practice is closer to disinformation. “We find it difficult to believe that there are no other interests behind this distorted version.”
The revolt, as The anthill, has not taken a minute to refer to the aforementioned complaint that Broncano made last week when denouncing the sabotage of The anthillwho “has been vetoing guests” for his competitor for years, the presenter explained. The famous bass drum from the La 1 program with which it accompanies the audience’s applause has this time featured the image of a deer. This is a nod to what the space resorted to this Thursday to compensate for the fact that it had to cancel the interview at the last minute due to a conflict of interest with Pablo Motos. Before starting with their usual jokes and sections, deer cries sounded in the Madrid theater where it is recorded. The revolt. Almost immediately, Broncano addressed the reactions to his complaint about the way of competing The anthill. “The expression ‘it’s always been done this way’ is one of the things that annoys me the most. Also before, goats were thrown from the bell towers…”, commented the communicator, almost reacting live to Motos’ words. Broncano also assured that they would watch the competition program together.
If that were so, they would have seen how the Antena 3 presenter took advantage of the final monologue to send a message not veiled to the Government due to the relevance that the brawl had taken on over the nightly guests: “With what is falling in the country, the implications of the Government, the dana and the neglected people, having to talk about an interview, it bothers me, but I need to restore the truth. There are interests and smoke screens that one does not control.” Motos highlighted how “this distorted version was broadcast from public television, which we all paid for with our taxes, and which estimated that this was one of the three most important problems of that day. He took up minutes on the news.”
“I cannot allow the work to be questioned and things are told that are false,” he reiterated. In addition to the attack on TVE, Motos went on to explain what, according to his version, had happened. The presenter explained that the interview with Martín was “closed and agreed on October 29” and that they had a commitment from their team that it would be the first interview “to get the best program.” TVE claimed that it had been approved since November 8. Motos explained that when they saw that the pilot got on his stories from Instagram that I would go to The revoltthey called the team, and they explained that there had been “lack of coordination with the people in charge.” The anthillPablo Motos explains, he would let the interview be recorded, but not broadcast: “Jorge did the interview and it was recorded, although that was hidden, and it was known thanks to the independent media that told the truth,” he pointed out with the headlines. of newspapers appearing on the screen behind. One of the news items projected was one of The World which said: “RTVE opens its news with the controversy between Broncano and Motos in the midst of the outbreak of the Aldama case.” The newspaper had to change that approach, since this controversy never opened the News, although it was one of the topics covered. Broncano, for his part, wanted to downplay that recording with Martín: “We said that we would not broadcast it, but not that we had not recorded it.”
Rigoberta Bandini, the first guest of the night on La 1, added more fuel to the fire and confessed to being banned from The anthill and not knowing the reasons for that censorship. The presenter was conciliatory: “We are open to you coming here, to going there, to not coming to either of them, to going here first and then there…”. To continue with the joke, the program later gave way to comedian Raúl Cimas, as a tribute for having often been the wild card the team turned to. During their conversation, references to The anthill and the possible presence of the comedian in Pablo Motos’ show. “I would like us all to get along,” concluded a conciliatory Broncano. Motos has also had a message about the jokes that the program has been doing for years: “I had never entered into the tasteless and disrespectful taunts against me camouflaged with humor when in reality they were attacks.”
Ironies and reactions
In his first sentence of the day in The anthillMotos already took the controversy with irony: “How strong the one who got involved, Vinicius has been injured.” But shortly after, after announcing that Jorge Martín will be a guest on Wednesday, he raised the issue before the interview with Kira Miró and Salva Reina: “There are many people who are waiting for it, I never want to get into controversy, but today I don’t have any left.” “I have no choice but to defend myself from an attack that has been done to the program team and to me.” This morning, collaborator Juan del Val warned: “Smiles and patience (…) In everything, always, you have to listen to both sides…”.
Motos has already used the discussion table on other occasions to get into controversies, criticizing sexist attitudes on television: “They made an advertisement for me on TV! Spending more than a million euros from the Spanish while the country is the way it is is indecent,” he said in 2022. This time, however, it was not the current affairs table, but rather the comedians’ table in which Luis Piedrahita, Jorge Marrón, The Monaguillo and Susi Caramelo.
They were left out of the explanation, but the war is more open than ever on Spanish nighttime television. In these three days since the controversy arose, dozens of reactions from professionals in the television industry have emerged. In addition to the wave of solidarity from RTVE programs with The revoltBob Pop has also reported having suffered similar practices by The anthill while working at Late reasonby Andreu Buenafuente. He explained that the platform where his program was broadcast, Movistar Plus+, “did not let anyone talk about this.”
