Raquel Sánchez-Silva (50 years old) is one of the best-known faces in our country. After more than 25 years of career, the presenter continues on the front lines, participating in high-class projects that place her as an essential on Spanish television.
Her big smile, her exquisite taste for fashion and the closeness she shows in each and every one of the projects in which she participates have made her have one of the best journalistic careers in living memory.
She always had a natural talent for communication and from a very young age she focused on making a name for herself in the world of journalism. Now, three decades later, Raquel can boast of having achieved it.
Extremaduran by birth and heart, the journalist studied her degree in Salamanca, where she already began to do her first jobs as a trainee editor in the Sports area of TVE's Information Services. Since then, the journalist has not stopped working on what she is passionate about, managing to present mythical television programs such as Survivors or Beijing Express and participate in projects such as Blood Ties or Talk to Them, which have provided her with tables that are difficult to achieve in the television industry.
The beginning of the writer's career was marked by her participation in the Televisión Española newscast, where she worked as a reporter, editor and substitute presenter for Jesús Álvarez Cervantes and María Escario when they were absent from the presentation of the sports block.
Shortly after, the woman from Placenta signed for Telemadrid to present the Telenoticias 2 news program, along with Luis Sanabria, Rafael Lechner and Alfonso García. Although Raquel never dedicated herself to this type of journalism again, the charismatic presenter has assured on multiple occasions that she remembers that stage of her life with great affection.
Few styles, formats and types of programs have remained for Raquel to try. Although she allowed us to discover a more serious and professional facet on the news, shortly after she began her professional career in successful formats such as La hora wiki, Peking Express, Oído cocina or Survivors.
It is in these programs where Raquel was able to shine with a more casual tone that ended up making millions of viewers fall in love every day. Her joy, self-confidence and security on her screen was what made her one of the regulars of prime time on Spanish television. In addition, due to her growing popularity, she began to attend many programs as a guest such as I am the one who knows the most about television in the world, El Hormiguero or Caiga quien caiga.
Communication has always been everything to her, but fashion has also held a special space in the heart of Raquel Sánchez Silva. The journalist has always been a fan of haute couture, designs and catwalks, and she can't help but get excited when she wears suits from important firms belonging to many of her friends and acquaintances.
For some years now, he has presented the space of the public channel dedicated to sewing and design, Maestros de la Costura, where he shares the screen with great designer friends: Palomo Spain, María Escoté and Lorenzo Caprile.
Thanks to the Spanish Television program, the presenter wears heart-stopping outfits every week and shares with millions of viewers the high quality of the fashion industry in our country.
Her love for fashion is also visible through the presenter's social networks, who does not hesitate to share her day-to-day life and the looks she chooses and wears to each of the events she attends.
Raquel has been linked to competition contests on many occasions during her career, but always from the role of presenter, collaborator or guest. Programs like Sewing Masters, Survivors or Beijing Express, have made her aware of all kinds of strategies, games and rivalries, but she had never dared to live the experience in first person.
This changed when she was offered to participate in the culinary talent of Televisión Española and Shine Iberia, Masterchef Celebrity 5. Despite having been preparing hard and being described as one of the "nerds of the class", Raquel could not overcome the high level that the contest demanded and became the fourth expelled.
We were also able to see how he performed as a contestant on the Antena 3 program presented by Roberto Leal, El Desafío. In this format we were able to see a fighting Raquel focused on victory who worked her ass off every week to give the best of herself.
Sánchez Silva is so professional and a perfectionist that, despite doing a good job, he always demands more. Due to this obsession with giving the best version of him, we were able to witness in El Desafío a tough clash between the presenter and the jury Santiago Segura, who supposedly was laughing at the Extremaduran's performance in one of the tests of the contest.
In 2013, millions of people in Spain and Italy were stunned when they heard the sad news of the death of Raquel Sánchez Silva's husband, Mario Biondo, after what appeared to be suicide or extreme sexual practice. Despite these early beliefs, the Italian's death aroused much controversy as some professionals and his family argued that it was a murder.
Although the case was dismissed in our country without finding guilty, the parents of the deceased are convinced that it is a crime and are not afraid to blame Raquel as the alleged perpetrator of the crime. After some very difficult years in which the Italian's family has not stopped fighting for justice, a Barcelona law firm has taken on the challenge of opening a legal case in Spain, great news for them.
Raquel Sánchez Silva is a model, mother, journalist presenter, cook and a host of other things. Dedicated to her loved ones, passionate about sports, a writer... it is difficult to list each and every one of the issues that Silva has addressed throughout her career.
This year the journalist has celebrated her 50th birthday surrounded by friends, family and people who accompany her on a daily basis. When taking stock, it is difficult not to admire a person like her, who after more than 20 years of work and effort, has become an icon of television in our country.
