Those who want to spend New Year's Eve at home can now choose which popular faces can accompany them to say goodbye to the year 2023 and welcome 2024. The television networks have already presented who will be the celebrities who will broadcast the bells : some protagonists repeat in this traditional event, others return after some time absent and there are also those who make their debut.
Antena 3 repeats the formula to maintain the audience leadership taken from RTVE two years ago: in the last few hours, it also set a historical record in screen share, registering 39%, with more than 6.6 million viewers. Cristina Pedroche and Alberto Chicote are back as a couple for the eighth time (the tenth for both of them separately) and, once again, most of the eyes will focus on what will be the dress that Pedroche, who became a mother in July, will wear of a girl called Laia. The second channel of Atresmedia, La Sexta, also repeats protagonists: for the sixth consecutive time, Cristina Pardo will be the presenter of the chimes and next to her will be Dani Mateo for the third year.
RTVE's La 1 proposal this year is to bring back an old acquaintance, Ramón García, and to bet on new blood, Ana Mena. In the case of the presenter, who this year has successfully returned to the network by reviving the Grand Prix competition after 18 years of absence, it will be about his fortnights on La 1 (the last, in 2018). For the singer and actress Ana Mena, it will mean her debut in the bells of the public network, which are broadcast from the Puerta del Sol in Madrid. Last year, RTVE relied on Ana Obregón and Los Morancos, who could not recover the lost lead and remained in second position: 4,469,000 viewers and a 26.1% share. Obregón already advanced a few weeks ago that this year he was giving up presenting the bells because he had another priority: to be with his granddaughter Ana Sandra.
But the great novelty and surprise of the broadcast of the bells by RTVE is that it will have the presence of soccer player Jennifer Hermoso, world champion with the Spanish national team, "to celebrate the triumphs of 2023 and toast to equality in 2024", as announced by the chain. The footballer has been one of the great protagonists of the year because, after winning the Australia and New Zealand World Cup in August, the then president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation, Luis Rubiales, kissed her on the lips during the celebration events. The player reported the manager, who had already been suspended by FIFA, to the Prosecutor's Office. The incidents sparked a movement of solidarity towards the players of the Spanish team under the slogan
Curiously, Hermoso will not be the only world champion who will eat grapes on television. Olga Carmona, author of the goal that gave victory to Spain in the final against England, will be in charge with the presenter and comedian Manu Sánchez of leading the bells on Canal Sur from the Plaza de l'Arenal in Jerez de la Frontera .
At Mediaset, a popular face from Telecinco and another from Cuatro, Jesús Calleja and Marta Flich, will take over from Risto Mejide and Mariló Montero. The presenter of Gran Hermano VIP and the adventurer of Planeta Calleja are the ones chosen to take the twelve grapes on all the channels of the group, this time from Seville. The objective: to overcome the historic low of last year when Telecinco averaged just under 800,000 viewers and a 4.7% share.
And in Catalonia, it will be the influencer Laura Escanes and the singer Miki Núñez who will present the New Year's bells on TV3. Escanes is the host of the new adventure reality show on the 3Cat platform La travessa, and Núñez, co-presenter of Eufòria with Marta Torné, repeats after participating last year with Mariona Escoda, winner of the first edition of the music competition . In the last hours, TV3 remained the leader in Catalonia with 962,000 viewers and a screen share of 39.2%.
