Jorge Javier Vázquez ends 2023 with a somewhat bittersweet taste. The presenter has gone through two cancellations of programs that he presented, but he begins a new year with another opportunity to resurface on the network that made him famous: he will be the host, once again, of Supervivientes. News that makes him happy, but he knows that he will anger those who consider his career over.
"I don't care if they call me a broken toy," says the presenter in the pages of the magazine Lecturas, in which he stars on the cover. "When you work in television, if you don't work one day, people think your life has been broken."
The Catalan takes stock of his year, which many thought was really going to be his television finale. After the cancellation of Sálvame and his farewell, to which he could not attend, many thought that his mental health was not going to allow him to return to the small screen.
"I am aware that I have lived through a time that is very unlikely to be repeated again," confesses the communicator, who spent no less than 15 years as the absolute audience leader. "My professional career, what I have done so far, has been or is much more than I could have imagined," he insists, ensuring that what comes from now on will not bring him many "headaches."
The one from Badalona has not been seen publicly too much since the cancellation of Chinese Tales last September, but it does not mean that he has been hidden. The presenter reappeared a few days ago to present the latest book by Pedro Sánchez.
"It's only been two months since I've been on TV. I haven't had time to miss it. It's like I'm on vacation," says the presenter. Still, he admits that this feeling has been the result of years of experience in the media and having resorted to therapy when he needed it to deal with his feelings.
The presenter returned to television and his program was cancelled, but it didn't matter. The stumble did not lead to such drama. "I had worked a lot on failure in therapy," he admits, "It was something that made me suffer." Therapy helped him enormously: "I have learned to accept negative feelings. Before I shied away from sadness, now I accept it," he acknowledges.
"The final reflection is that just as success does not depend exclusively on you, neither does failure."
Jorge Javier will be, once again, the one who takes the lead in Supervivientes, Mediaset's star reality show. The program will begin just after the new edition of GH Dúo, which Marta Flich will present, next spring.
