I don’t know about yours, but my 2026 bingo card didn’t include seeing . Fantasy has worked Top Chef: Sweets and celebritiesthe new gastronomic program on TVE. There may be those who thought they were watching, but no, it’s almost the same, but it’s another program, so similar that it was like when in It dawns that it is not little The Civil Guard lost the elections and the secret one won, which were the same except for Corporal Fermín; Well, here they are the same except Damián Betular, replaced on the jury by the Argentine Osvaldo Gross. Yes, the balsamic Eva Arguiñano and Paco Roncero continue, whom, because of Roi Mendez, I can only see as a David Civera with an aging filter. A trio that functions as the luminous reverse of the sinister jury of Masterchef.
Paula Vázquez is also still at the helm because TVE likes the Vázquez, structuring a format that in previous editions lacked a guide, something that we did not know until we saw how much it won with a solvent driver at the helm. Having a job, they call it. I am unable to predict how the audience will treat this premiere – more coinciding in the same period as Big Brother Duowho, fearing Esteban’s pull, last night organized a kind of embarrassing coven of those that make you think that, no matter how much we talk about mental health, it is never enough—, but it has good points. It is dynamic, despite its excessive length, and has a balanced casting.
I don’t doubt that they are all sweet, but there are degrees in the fame of the contestants. There are some that you have to Google and also heavyweights like Belén Esteban. On her return to the public, she served up memes and phrases to remember: “Aren’t the reeds those little dolls?” she asked herself and, if it is the work of a screenwriter – although I doubt that anyone could script the one from San Blas better than herself – she kissed the corners of it. She made it clear that she is there to win and redeemed herself from what fans of save me. She acted as patron because she knows that she is the main attraction of the program and she was the voice of the people when she uttered a very sincere “But well, what is this?” upon seeing Marina Castaño appear, the most unlikely pastry chef and the only one, I venture, who has cooked in a blazer. What does Cela’s widow do there, I asked myself too. They say that love makes you do crazy things, but having to pay the rent, I won’t even tell you. Because I’m made up of water, carbon, and prejudice, I assumed I was going to hate it as much as the first person who decided that chocolate went with mint—there’s no hell hot enough for that person—but it was worse; When I heard her define herself as an “unsociable cook” and proclaim that she doesn’t like to get dirty and that she is very scrupulous, I realized that I can’t hate her because I am her, that is, the kind of person that no one ever wants on their team. Plus, she cooked my favorite dessert: tocinillo de cielo. My favorite dessert, which is also my favorite first and second courses, and even my appetizer; I am one of those who believes, like Homer Simpson, that the best menu is one in which all the dishes are desserts and the dessert is three desserts.
She and Luis Merlo functioned at a totally different speed than the rest; They wandered around the kitchen like Sims without an owner, which led them to the elimination test, the result of which I will not reveal to you because, if you are concerned about sleep hygiene, you will do the normal thing, which is to watch it today on RTV Play. Do it if only to listen to Merlo, what diction, what tables, what tenderness! His soliloquies in front of a shapeless mass (of flour, don’t blame me, I’m not referring to any other contestant) justify the late night. He is there to replace Antonio Resines at the last minute, and what a success; how healing its energy is in these dark times. I could listen to it for hours and that’s what I did because the program lasted three; they make it increasingly difficult to reconcile life with realities. , self-proclaimed first transvestite pastry chef in Spain and known mainly for her time in Drag Racewhere she obtained the title of Miss Congeniality.
Tell me it’s not pretty; I would only be more excited to be Miss Pretty with Glasses. Sympathy also comes from Roi Méndez, whose fine sense of humor will not be a surprise to those who knew him in Operation Triumpha format from which Natalia also emerged. What energy the first featured chef of the edition has. There are athletes in Milan-Cortina who have moved less than her preparing a cake.
In the group of actors, in addition to Merlo, we find his partner There is no one who lives hereEva Isanta. Bea and Mauri, together again. Surely someone sighed thinking that if there is a movie about Aidawhy not the neighbors of Desengaño 21? Of Aida Mariano Peña arrives, the ineffable Mauricio Colmenero, who admitted that he uses the oven to store the pans; We are legion, Mariano. Completing the acting quota is Alejandro Vergara, the doctor Abel Bueno from The Promise. He almost had to return to his fictitious job to suture some cuts caused by enthusiasm; Although the blood did not reach the river, some little finger did not have the best night. There is also no shortage of content creators among the contestants, that catch-all. Like Ivana Rodríguez, sister of Georgina, wife of Cristiano Ronaldo. This is from the second celibritile genealogy. Hers were the first tears of the contest and that was in my bingo Top Chef. He also creates content, and who doesn’t, if we think about it, and the person who can most often introduce the expression “divineo” into a conversation. Almost as many as there are jokes about losing a limb he has told, claiming that humor helps him cope with any situation and that is a truth the size of his good nature.
There was laughter, but also excitement. More than one person’s eyes glazed over remembering the desserts their mothers made for them. Mine considered making a dessert, opening a Comtessa, and that practicality is its most precious legacy for me. I think, as Vila confessed, that why are you going to make churros, with how complex it is, with the very good churros that there are in this country. The churro, a sweet so humble and so delicious. If you have been given a dozen churros on Valentine’s Day, that is love; let the flowers be happy in the gardens.
There were jokes about churros and batons, also about trios and about bananas that don’t stand up, because it’s about getting a group of people together and the camp humor comes out. The jokes were not very sophisticated, but they gave us something better: reaching the end of the first program without fervently wishing for the expulsion of one or more contestants, from the contest and from the country, if possible. The opposite is a miracle and the secret lies in the casting and in an editing room that chose to suppress tensions instead of reveling in them. Also in that we can hear beautiful and unknown expressions such as “abatador” or “impalpable sugar.” It would be therapeutic to end the week with the good vibes that this program breathes, but its stay on Sunday night is brief; next week. Lately, TVE lives to surprise us. The following program Top Chef will be broadcast on Wednesdays and the program that previously aired on Wednesdays, The Floorwill move to Tuesdays. This is how you gain audience loyalty.
