For participating in a contest with celebrities, many of the participants receive a cache higher than the minimum interprofessional salary (SMI) of a whole year ,. Open television grills. Therefore, they need to find known faces again and again to star them. Some of those popular characters have already been professionalized in this type of content and, in recent years, they have passed through five or more of them.
Some have learned to sew, imitate, sing, make extreme challenges and dance. Others have made pirouettes from a springboard, have cooked recipes for restaurants with Michelin star or the best possible desserts; Or they have been self -sufficient on a farm, they have become monologuists or, simply, they have suffered the Sartrian hell of living with other strangers (and even with enemies of the past), locked in the most famous house in Spain, that of.
Telecinco, despite the change announced by its new directive a year and a half ago, it remains the chain that resorts the most to realities y talents With celebrities. So much so that this season, after successfully recovering Big Brother With anonymous, in its 19th edition, it has chained its broadcast with one of its VIP editions, that of Big Brother Duo 3, While preparing the imminent premiere of Survivorsin which it will be its 22nd edition, with celebrities since Antena 3 premiered in 2003 THE ISLAND OF THE FAMOUS. For this new installment they have already confirmed to six names, some unpublished in these lides, such as and actress Beatriz Rico, along with others who have already lived similar experiences, such as Pelayo Díaz, who has just passed through . There are those that are already officials of this type of programs, such as Makoke and the Rider and Socialité Álvaro Muñoz Escassi, who was even in Survivors 16 years ago, in the 2009 edition.
Such is the dependence of Telecinco for the contents with celebrities that already prepares for September a second edition of All Stars Survivorsthe modality in which famous contestants return to the competition after having done so in previous years. The main Mediaset channel is also closing the distribution of a new installment of Dancing with the starsanother of those programs with celebrities that have passed through all the chains.
For its part, the 1 has managed Celebrity sewing teachers y MasterChef Celebrityall of them achieving in the prime time Audiences higher than the average of the chain.
Three of the great hits of Antena 3 in their nights are competitions with known faces. A few months ago endOh His fourth season, in which celebrities sing hidden under a disguise while other celebrities try to guess their identity. The fifth season of, which leads every Friday with contestants such as Victoria Federica, the niece of the kings of Spain, and the humorist and reporter Susi Caramelo, is currently in broadcast. This extreme test contest has already announced to the contestants of the next installment, of 2026, with the journalist José Yélamo and the humorists and presenters Patricia Conde and Eva Soriano. The premiere of, with singers Bertín Osborne and Gisela, actor Manu Baqueiro and the Yenosi digital star is already imminent.
Caches, and agreed expulsions
A year ago, Baldomero Toscano, former director of Production of Mediaset, which costs the communication group to produce a contest as Survivors, in which more than 150 people work. “There are many hours of production, programming; It will be around 1.3 million euros per week. The deployment that is there and the satellite open so long costs money, ”he explained. Another of the most relevant factors of this budget is the cache of the participants. Although not everyone charges the same, Toscano estimated that the program needs an average of 20,000 euros per week for each famous participant. “There is a scaling, depending on the time they endure on the island, which is decreasing over the weeks,” he revealed.
Precisely, the recent statements by the creator of content for social networks Paula Gonu, first expelled from the first edition of Bake Off With famous contestants, released in prime video in 2021, they have generated controversy. The Catalan has assured that the participants agree on the minimum of weeks that will be maintained in the contest, making the expulsions scheduled and have not to do with their performance as contestants.
Ganu has affirmed a few days ago that his expulsion had to occur in the second chapter and not the first, as indicated according to contract. “They were supposed to cast hope Aguirre. She had said yes, ”he added. “They started telling me a lot of contestants that how many chapters I had signed. I said that none, and they told me: ‘You are a jerk or who has made the contract is a jerk, because here we have all signed a minimum of chapters, ”he said in the interview. There was even a participant who confessed to having signed “with a minimum of five chapters.”
Recurring names
With your signing for Survivors 2025 Already officially confirmed, Álvaro Muñoz Escassi is one of the celebrities who has passed more times in these formats: in addition to his two times as a survivor, he has participated in Look who jumps, Cornered, Dance as you can (all of them from Telecinco), MasterChef Celebrity 8 (1). There are six without their own, I love Escassiin which a group of women tried to conquer it.
Leticia Sabater has also appeared in six: twice Survivorsin Antena 3 and Telecino; Cornered, This kitchen is hell y The strong house (Telecinco) and Impossible expeditionand Express Beijing With known faces, in four. And he still has formats to try.
But who holds the record is Marta Peñate, who has appeared up to seven times in this type of programs, all in Telecinco: in two editions of THE ISLAND OF THE FAMOUSin two of Survivorsin What a vacation y The strong house and in Big Brother 17although he did it in the edition of strangers and was the springboard that allowed him to participate in the rest of them.
Other contestants who have become famous in a reality o talent show and that they have chained up to five of them are singer Rosa López and Adara Molinero, while Marta López holds a record: having been the only person to compete in four different editions of Big Brother: Big Brother 2 Canonymous, the first edition of Big Brother VIPthe second of Big Brother: The reunion y Big Brother Duo 2, In addition to doing so in Survivors.
Others who have become famous for their profession and who are regular contestants are singer María del Monte (in six of them, of Your face sounds to me y MasterChef Celebrity a Incredible duos) and, five times, bullfighters Víctor Janeiro (won The Island of the celebrities: Aventure in Africa y Nightmare in paradise), Óscar Higares (won the monologues contest The Flory Club And currently participate in Celebrity sewing teachers), And the Cordoba (To dance!, Mask Singer).
