The morning television queen for a decade, María Teresa Campos, is in a “very serious” condition after being admitted for respiratory failure at the Jiménez Díaz Hospital in Madrid. The journalist, one of the best-known faces on the cathodic screen and leader of a saga of television faces (her presenter daughter, Terelu Campos; her other daughter, director of her programs, Carmen Borrego; and her granddaughter, collaborator, Alejandra Blanco) agreed to the hospital where she was admitted after suffering a “frame of acute respiratory failure,” according to the health center.
The situation of the veteran journalist is critical. Her own daughters appealed to the closest relatives to go to the Madrid hospital to await any event, given the presenter’s age and state of health. At press time, her prognosis was “reserved, within gravity.”
The situation is so complex that even one of her closest friends came to the hospital, whom she affectionately called her other daughter, Rocío Carrasco and her partner Fidel Albiac. The one who was Terelu’s husband, Alejandro Blaanco, also attended the family emergency call to congregate at the hospital.
La Campos, as many of her closest viewers and collaborators popularly knew her, had already gone through several complex health episodes in recent years. In fact, her family had warned of the deteriorating situation that the journalist from Malaga was going through, with conniving overtones. In fact, her last public appearance was after the pandemic, when she showed a visibly deteriorated state due to her age, almost speechless when asked by the press.
In fact, in May 2017 she was also hospitalized for several days after suffering a cerebral ischemia in the vertebrobasilar territory. That episode marked a turning point in his career, although until a few months ago Campos showed his intention to be willing to present a new television format on Mediaset, although he never received a response from what was then his CEO and friend, Paolo Vasile.
The last television intervention of María Teresa Campos was just before the pandemic, in 2019. Then she presented an innovative format, ‘La Campos móvil’, a program in which she interviewed and chatted with current personalities in an open-top bus while They toured various cities such as Madrid. The low audiences put an end to the format a few installments after it was released.
His last successful program was ‘¡Qué tiempo tan feliz’, an evening format on weekends on Telecinco in which he combined interviews, testimonials, the heart and, above all, live music, one of his great bets for television and that he defended so much against other channels. He did it hand in hand with Yusan Acha, the program’s director, with whom he maintained a close friendship that he reinforced over the eight years of the program.
However, the great television success of María Teresa Campos was gestated for almost a decade in ‘Día a día’, the morning program of the main Mediaset chain with which she rose as queen of the mornings. She was the first woman to hold this recognition when in 1996 she made the leap from TVE to Telecinco. The change was not trivial: the new Prime Minister, José María Aznar, had just arrived in Moncola and Campos and her team risked a political gathering shortly before lunchtime. A format now extended but that 30 years ago was a revolution. It was: it brought together opinion-makers from very different tendencies (from César Vidal to María Antonia Iglesias, among many others) to organize a debate in which the presenter knew how to impose her directive to give the floor to some gatherings very little used to having a focus like that of the sets to give all kinds of opinions on politics, economics and any social event.
a strong personality
His strong character – even shown publicly – has played a trick on him. After her stage in ‘Day by day’ ended, Vasile relegated her and made the leap to the mornings of Antena 3. It did not go well. Although in the first steps of the program she improved the audience, which led her to call the Mediaset executive an “asshole” for having despised her.
After a few years, Campos returned to what had been his home for years. He presented the morning newscast ‘La Mirada Crítica’, a format that Telecinco recovers precisely this month after the passage of Ana Rosa Quintana, his great rival, in the afternoon on the Fuencarral network. The face-to-face between the two presenters, in 2008, was a ratings success, a battle of television egos: “Do you like me badly?” Ana Rosa asked in an interview between the two. “You have hit me a few times,” Campos reminded him. Pure state.
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