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What has become of Andrés Burguera?

Andrés Pajares Burguera (Madrid, 1968) has been famous all his life. His parents are the actors Andrés Pajares and Maby Burguera, so he has suffered the weight of fame since he was a child. Later, as an adult, he also participated in the ‘show business’, although now he has been missing for a while. What happened to him?

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away from television

After those convulsive times in which the Pajares family was entangled (televisionally speaking) in one and another controversy, Andrés Pajares has been away from television for some time, focused on his current profession.

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He is a cabin crew

Currently, Andrés Burguera has found peace in the heights, converted into a flight attendant for a major airline, Iberia, where he has been working for more than 30 years.

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the weight of fame

Like many children of famous Spaniards of that time, Andrés Pajares Jr. lived closely with the weight of his father’s fame and half of Spain was a participant in his evolution and in some episodes of his most intimate life.

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His mother died when he was five years old.

His mother died in 1973, following a long illness. He was only five years old and that was an episode that marked him. In fact, he artistically uses his mother’s last name. Perhaps as a tribute or to reduce the weight of the responsibility of being called the same as his famous father.

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He studied marketing and also trained as an actor

Although he studied marketing, he also became interested in acting, following in the footsteps of his parents. In 1989 she made her film debut in the movie ‘Todos al piso’ and, a year later, in 1990, she participated in a play by his father, ‘El Extranjero’.

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He studied Dramatic Art in New York

Some time later he went to live in New York to continue his acting training. And she even got to star in a play in English at the alternative theater Actors Studio.

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In New York they confused him with the murderer of Gianni Versace

One of the most difficult episodes of his life was precisely in New York in 1997, when he was mistaken for the murderer of the designer Gianni Versace.

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The real killer was Andrew Cunanan

Three New York police officers asked him his name and he replied: “Andrew”, which is why the agents believed they had found Andrew Cunanan, the real killer of the Italian designer, who was killed by this man on July 15, 1997 at doors of his Miami Beach mansion.

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the worst day of his life

This is how he told it in an interview for La Otra Crónica de El Mundo in 2017: “It was the worst day of my life. I was in the Chelsea neighborhood and I noticed a patrol car following me as I left a barber shop, where I had gone to get a haircut. They asked me my name, I answered and ended up held at gunpoint and handcuffed. I thought it was the end!”

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detained at police station

What happened? He was arrested and taken to a police station under the Twin Towers where he was given the opportunity to make a call. He contacted the vice-consul, who managed to prove that he was Andrés Pajares Burguera and not Andrew Cunanan.

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Everything was in an anecdote

Finally, the dramatic episode was left in an anecdote that he continues to remember years later. The police apologized and gave him a Green Card as compensation, a card with a social security number that allows him to live and work in the United States.

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needed psychological help

However, he needed psychological help to overcome it. The good part is that, due to the impact of the case, she increased his fame and began working on the series ‘Tío Willy’, starring his father, Andrés Pajares.

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Jobs as a model and on television

Later he worked as a model (he even starred in a sunglasses campaign) and we even saw him collaborating on José Luis Moreno’s program ‘Noche de fiesta’ and other programs such as ‘Humor is written with H’, on TVE, or ’12 hearts ‘, from Univision.

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Protagonist of the pink chronicle

This is without counting the television moments that the different members of the Pajares clan starred in in the gossip shows such as ‘Tómbola’ or ‘DEC’ (‘Where are you, heart?’), where one and the other (Conchi, Chonchi…) aired without modesty all kinds of intimacies.

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His relationship with his father is good.

In recent years, the relationship between father and son is good. In 2019, at the presentation of his father’s memoir, entitled ‘My memories… before they forget me’, they posed together in the most affectionate way before the media.

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his father is his family

In fact, Andrés Burguera has assured in his latest interviews that his only family is his father… And on his Instagram profile he appears in many photos with his father.

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Cold relationship with his sister Mari Cielo

With whom he does not have a very good relationship (or not very fluid) is with his sister Mari Cielo Pajares, daughter of a later relationship between her father and Chonchi Alonso.

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He assures that he leads a normal and boring life

In his social networks it can also be seen how the now flight attendant leads a completely normal life, traveling from here to there, going to the gym a lot and accompanied by friends. He himself has assured that he leads a boring life.

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I go flying, i come flying

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