Those who do not tune in to Telemadrid have lost track of Santi Acosta (Madrid, 1966) for years, who achieved great popularity 20 years ago with programs such as Salsa Rosa and Dolce Vita on Telecinco. Tonight, the journalist returns to the chain and to the social chronicle with a special that promises exclusive images of Ana Obregón's maternity process.
How did the idea for this special come about? "Our production company, Producciones Mandarina, is a neighbor of Gtres, the photo agency of the heart, and when the exclusive came out, I asked its owner how they had achieved it and the journalistic and detective story seemed fascinating to me," Acosta replies to La Vanguardia.
Based on a small clue from four months earlier, from Gtres they began to pull the thread until they got the photo of Ana Obregón leaving the hospital in a wheelchair with her adoptive daughter and biological granddaughter. "We proposed to Mediaset to make a documentary but they asked us to make the program that we will see tonight."
The history of the program begins from these images "and then we began to rebuild the skeleton of an issue that we can define as the exclusive of the year, if not of the century, because in the end it opens a debate with a thousand different aspects that crosses the world of the heart , of medicine, of law and of ethics”, points out the journalist.
"It is such a broad debate that it is impossible to cover in a single night, but the threads or the main paths of what is an intense debate right now in Spanish society can be pointed out, because science and technology have advanced us," Acosta reasons, who anticipates that they will provide some new information "with something that has not been seen or heard", but that is reserved for tonight.
The journalist, who reveals that they have spoken with those close to Ana Obregón, advances that the program will be able to follow Ana Obregón's entire journey. “From when she leaves her house to Madrid and arrives at the airport and tries to mislead the journalists by saying that she is going to New York” to the final image of her in Miami with her daughter in her arms.
The great novelty that tonight's special brings is from where the story is explained. "We always approach the exclusive from the point of view of the photographed character and in this case it is approached from the point of view of the paparazzi who is looking for that image of the famous".
This special supposes for Santi Acosta a certain return to the social and pink chronicle, from which he says he distanced himself because projects of a different type came to him, not because of any desire to reject. “Journalism has many facets and the good thing about it is that it allows you the possibility of working in different fields; I love investigative journalism, in which I worked for many years, and also making documentaries, the last one I did was 'Save the King'”.
Acosta, who welcomes programs like tonight with Ana being able to continue on Telecinco, believes that since the days of Salsa Rosa, the gossip has undergone a great change. "What's on television now is more reality than heart" and he claims to recover that pink journalism "with celebrities who have a story to tell and who are treated with the utmost respect." "Now in society there is a lot of radicalization and I think we have to recover that in debates you can change your mind without it meaning that you have lost a battle," he concludes.
