As expected, the interview with Julián Muñoz issued posthumously has given plenty of material to talk about Telecinco. The issuance of Fridaymade in an extraordinary way on Wednesday following the death of the former Marbella mayor, served to garner the audience’s interest, but also for the network to repeat a tactic of recent times: give the speaker to the former politician so that he could give his version of the criminal plots in which he was involved, softening his responsibilities and crimes.
TV remembers Julián Muñoz with a critical tone after his death: “He represents a Spain that is embarrassing”
It should be said that there have been voices from Mediaset that have disapproved of those statements that Muñoz recorded in advance. It is the case of Ana Terradillos. The critical look has addressed this as one of the key topics of Thursday morning, just after picking up the scandal around the published photos of the king emeritus Juan Carlos de Borbón y Barbara Reyand the presenter has chosen to maintain a distant stance with the network’s great “claim.”
“Where is the money that hasn’t turned up yet?”
After showing some totals of the interview with the exédil, Terradillos took the floor. “Let’s see… You see a man like that and all you have to do is convey your condolences to his family and others. But I wonder: Where is the money that hasn’t appeared yet?”. Terradillos recalled that according to Mayte Zaldivarwhom he bluntly defined as “his wife-ex-wife-wife,” “There are 46 million euros that have flown”. For Terradillos, the relevant thing was to know that, because “that money belongs to the people of Marbella”, but Muñoz had not given a response before dying on the matter.
“There are trajectories that cannot even be whitewashed after death,” he added. Esther Palomerataking the floor. “This man was a criminal and he died a criminal.” Terradillos agreed when the talk show host insisted that she was not asked the appropriate questions about those embezzled funds.
This was not the first time that Julián Muñoz, convicted of various crimes of bribery, embezzlement and fraud in the ‘Malaya’ case, stood before the Telecinco microphone, giving truth to his speech and without going into rebuttal or direct criticism. doubt his arguments. It already happened with the docuseries Julián Muñoz: It is not the time for revenge, it is the time of truthwhich aired on the network in January 2022 and caused people to talk when it was confirmed that Mediaset paid for his testimony. Later, Justice investigated whether Muñoz had incurred in crimes so that they would not seize him this charge.
Acosta cries when remembering the interview
In any case, the presenters of Friday They have defended, both in the hours before and after, the value of this testimony and its relevance. He did it, just hours before the broadcast, Beatriz Archidona.
“Nobody is going to be whitewashed here because there is a fact that was prosecuted and there are some convictions“, he maintained in TardeARwhere he defended that what was going to be seen “is the version of the intrastory behind all this about Julián, and how he knew he was going to die, he told absolutely everything”: “There are two and a half hours with the memories of Julián on the table.”
After the broadcast, Santi Acosta He has also spoken, and he has done so with emotion. During the presentation of Paparazzia docuseries that he directed for Movistar Plus+, the journalist cried when remembering how this interview was created that was to be broadcast after the death of the protagonist: “It was impressive and for me very exciting,” he said through tears before the press, as reported 20minutos. “I’m excited. Forty years in the profession and I still get excited about these things…And I’ve been trying not to get excited anywhere for three days.”
“First it disarms you, you can no longer do the same type of interview, because you know that they are his last wishes and that knowing the moment in which he is going to die and that everything is over, He will open his heart to you and tell you everything from his point of view.”, he explains about what that interview was like.
