The life of María Patiño (52 years old) changed completely when the Mediaset executives decided to end ‘Sálvame’. It closed on June 23, 2023. The set that had been her home for so many years was dismantled and the television personality, like the rest of her colleagues, had to look for a new occupation. They were not good times for her. “Each one has dealt with that process in a different way. I have had a very bad time, but not because the program is over, but because I felt like I was disappearing from the map and that all that wonderful newspaper archive was despised,” he confessed months later. This farewell was accompanied by his end at the helm of ‘Socialité’. Time has passed and his luck has changed.He presents the revival of the Fábrica de la Tele format, ‘Ni que fueramos Shhh’, and is also regarding to host Ibai Llanos’ ‘La noche del año’.
He will never understand the reason for the cancellation of ‘Sálvame’ following having given so many good audience figures for so many years, but the most inexplicable thing was the behaviour of the channel. Many of the workers found out regarding the news live and it is something that he will never forgive them: “I’ve given a lot of thought to why.But since I think I’ll never have an answer, I prefer to look ahead. Because in the end I’m just an ant in this whole story and they’ve run me over.”
The drastic change that Maria Patiño suffered
María Patiño, one of the most recognisable faces of the small screen, experienced difficult times when she suddenly found herself without a job and without going to a studio every day. Thank goodness the production company of ‘Sálvame’ gave her the opportunity to host ‘Ni que fuéramos Shhh’. This format recovers her essence alongside some of those colleagues with whom she had shared so many followingnoons, such as Belén Esteban, Kiko Matamoros or Lydia Lozano.
As if that were not enough, Ibai Llanos has trusted her to be the co-presenter On July 13th, one of the events of the year in the world will take place streaming: the fourth edition of La Velada del Año. “Let me tell you something very important. It’s very brief. I’m going to co-present the fourth Ibai Llanos Evening of the Year. They proposed it to me this morning and I’m very happy and They will see me in the world whole. In Japan included,” she announced on Canal Quickie. After what she has been through, this marks the beginning of a new stage for the woman from Ferrol who began her professional career in the Seville branch of the Europa Press news agency.
A graduate in Journalism, María Patiño has had a varied career before establishing herself on the small screen. She was at Giralda Televisión, at the official agency of ‘Diez Minutos’ in Andalusia and at Canal Sur Radio. It was precisely the latter that gave him the opportunity to appear on television for the first time on the programme ‘Ven con nosotros’ in 2001. From there she moved to Antena 3 with ‘Sabor a verano’ and between 2002 and 2004 she participated alongside Ana Rosa Quintana in the programme ‘Sabor a ti’. Her first time as a presenter was alongside Dani Martínez and Jaime Cantizano on ‘A3Bandas’, in 2007.
The moment when Maria Patiño rose to fame
None of these projects was as important to his CV as ‘Where are you, my heart?’, presented by Jaime Cantizano. This was what made María Patiño so famous.Her strong character and her way of laughing at herself, as well as her wit when dealing with interviewees, caught the public’s attention during the eight seasons in which she worked as a collaborator, a role she held until 2011. That would only be the beginning. After the disappearance of the major gossip formats on Antena 3, she moved to the competition. It was on Mediaset España where she developed a good part of her television career.
Following a very personal interview he gave on the successful Telecinco programme ‘La Noria’, They decided to sign her as a collaboratorShe joined other formats such as ‘El Programa de Ana Rosa’ and ‘Sábado Deluxe’. She joined ‘Sálvame’ in 2014. She gradually made her way until she established herself as one of the format’s presenters.
Her career has not been limited to this, however. She has also made cameos as an actress in ‘Torrente 4: Lethal Crisis’, an episode of ‘Aquí no hay quien viva’ and in the short film she released in 2015, ‘La cara del diablo’.
