No one should be forced to marry, but the bullfighter Juan Ortega is reprimanded for not finishing the job with his girlfriend, Carmen Otte, halfway through his hairdo after a decade of relationship, and for maintaining absolute silence with the his partner humiliated and the case open to speculation. With Ortega watching the bulls from the barrier, several versions point to different causes. But at the moment we do not know if this fear of the bullfighter is due to whether he was afraid to say yes, I want it like the character of Julia Roberts, if he wanted to prevent his girlfriend from future fights outside the arena, if he intoned the " we were three” of Lady Di, whether a Hanover was made at her own wedding or whether all or none of the above.
The wedding was scheduled for 12:00 noon on Saturday in the church of Santiago de Jerez de la Frontera, which was attended by a small group of the 500 guests who did not have time to find out that the wedding was had canceled The pre-wedding was indeed celebrated and there are even videos of the (not so) lovers dancing and kissing hours before the wedding. In his defense, those who know Ortega say that he is a person of integrity and that, if he backed out at the last moment, he would have had his reasons.
Nor is it the first time that something has happened for style in the bullring circles. A couple of guests at the wedding of Ortega and Otte already went through a similar episode two decades ago, although with much more leeway. Twenty days before their wedding in 2003, Curro Romero sent a statement to the media explaining that the engagement was being canceled for "unspecified reasons" and his then-fiancee, Carmen Tello, learned from the press that the bullfighter 'was backing away.
By the appointed day, things had already been clarified and an intimate wedding was celebrated at the house of the bullfighter, in Espartinas (Seville), and not the mass wedding that had been announced. What hurt the bullfighter was that his wedding became a media circus. The first intention was to hold a ceremony with 80 guests, but the list grew in a few days to 400 and the bullfighter could not withstand that pressure, the same as the character of Mr. Big a Sex in New York.
"Personal reasons", was what Natalia Jiménez, vocalist of La Quinta Estación, cited for canceling her wedding with Antonio Alcol the day before it took place, in 2009. Some time later, he explained that he did not know what it had happened to the singer who suddenly packed her bags and said: “I'm going to Dénia with my parents. See you later". It turned out to be a "forever" and they never spoke again. He also explained Alcohol in ¡Hola! México that Jiménez woke up early that day to go to Pozuelo City Hall to suspend the ceremony and to the Casa Mónico restaurant to cancel the banquet and pay the bill.
Her namesake Natalia Verbeke also starred in her own Novia a la fuga in 2014 when she decided not to marry chef Jaime Renedo four days before the planned wedding. Apparently, it was family disagreements over the alleged sale of the wedding's exclusive juice that dynamited the relationship. The discreet Verbeke did not like the plans of his relatives. Renedo briefly visited covers and sets, but she never publicly stated her reasons.
Another who has never wanted to explain the reasons that led him to cancel his wedding in extremis is the bride who ran away par excellence, Julia Roberts. Years before participating in the film, the actress planted the actor Kiefer Sutherland on the eve of their engagement and escaped to Ireland with a good friend of his, fellow actor Jason Patric. She was all set for the celebration, even ordering a wedding cake in the shape of a Thanksgiving turkey to make up to Sutherland that Roberts wouldn't let her have a real turkey during the banquet, which eventually it was not celebrated. It was an international scandal, but it never harmed the career of the actress, who was 24 at the time.
