Ion Aramendi is a happy man. And it shows: «I have arrived where I am without dreaming about it. I live in the present, I let myself go. I have a job I enjoy and a wonderful family.». It would be unfair to say that he has been very lucky to reach the moment he is living in, because it would detract from both his talent and his personality. He is a happy man because he has earned it. Professionally, Ion has established himself with ‘Chain Reaction’ and ‘Big Brother, El Debate’, on Telecinco.
With the daily contest he enjoys “when I record it, when I watch it at home with my children. Tests with words are as fun as they are educational, so much so that speech therapists use them for learning. The program combines culture with entertainment“I hope I retire doing it.” With the ‘reality show’, of which he declares himself a fan, he can now boast of knowing both versions: «The VIP has an advantage, that of knowing their stories, even if they later remain in the background. The anonymous ones have that point of naivety, they forget about the cameras and they discover coexistence, the management of conflicts.
“Everything I have experienced has helped me work on television,” acknowledges the journalist, who has been a basketball player, a factory worker, a butane tester, a waiter and manager of a Greek restaurant in Australia, among other things: “That experience and my curiosity make me empathize with people“I pour out all my baggage when I present.”
Ion is proud to feel like “a good person. I can make mistakes, but what is not is doing harm by wanting to. And it’s not hard for me to ask for forgiveness. However, he does not show off his humor so much: “It’s just that sometimes I have a sudden feeling that scares… I have a short fuse and that generates tension around me. “It also makes me angry to be woken up from a nap, I inherited it from my father.”
He does not consider himself a detail-oriented man: «My wife can attest to this. Nor am I very romantic, although I make up for it in some way because I am affectionate, loving, but I don’t go beyond that. He also doesn’t consider himself a dreamer: «I have my feet on the ground. “I face life with the attitude of willingly accepting it to take me wherever it wants.”
On May 28, Ion published a post with a photo of his wedding with María Amores to celebrate their thirteen years together. He did it with the lyrics of ‘Te amaré’, the song by Miguel Bosé. María has many things that make Ion continue to fall in love with her: «She is the most intelligent, funniest person and with whom I talk the most in the history of my life. I continue to admire his way of thinking. I love that she is the best mother in the world. For his ability to understand me, to accompany me. And because every day she is more beautiful. Quite a statement.
But his three children have made his heart grow so that there is more love: «I feel proud of them. The little girl is like a toy that arrived unexpectedly and late. Due to their ages, each one lives at a stage with certain needs and that implies that at home we live at three speeds. Nothing gives Ion more peace than his family, his children: “if one day I am touched, I look at them and it goes away. When I come home and see that everything I’m fighting for is them, that gives me peace». Curiously, it is not easy to get on his nerves: “I am tremendously spiritual. Maybe things that are not arranged geometrically can bother me. But I don’t usually get angry. And if I do it, it doesn’t last long because I like to resolve conflicts, fix things with others.
Ion in a photo as a child
The photo: Girls’ best friend
When he was little they called him ‘Ion smiles’, he always had one lighting up his face. “I was very cute, without bad ideas, maybe a bit of a hooligan, but I behaved well,” Ion recalls: “I studied little, but I was good at academics and I was good at mathematics.” But his thing was basketball, which he started playing at the age of eight: “Playing with the elders made me mature.”
Curiously, he got along very well with the girls: “So much so that they invited me to their birthdays and I was the only boy.” And he knew how to overcome the cruelty of the schoolyard: «I made friends with the bad guys so as not to be the butt of their jokes. But I also had some. I was always a defender of the weak. “I think it came from home, from my brothers, because I understood the importance of protection.”
He is very close to his three brothers: «The eldest, José María, was the leader, my reference, my caregiver. Then there is Íñigo, who is more special, different. And Santi, the little one, was my pulilo. I was his teacher for good and bad. Due to his age and complicity, he also continues to be a great friend. All four have been good basketball players and have played together for many years. Brothers at home and on the court.
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