Despite his undisputed leadership in audience every night with his news programs, the personal life of Vicente Valles remains an enigma to many of his followers. Despite his dominance in the television field, the journalist has managed to maintain a discreet profile when it comes to his life outside the cameras.
His humble childhood among “shanties”
was born ago 60 years in Madrid, in July 1963, although he never wanted to reveal the exact date of your birth. Behind the well-known television character hide very humble origins that he himself has never denied. And, although he is now a national figure, the truth is that The journalist was born among “shanties”.
«The first memory that I think I have from my childhood is that of, being very little, being in my neighborhood, which was Vallecason a street full of mud, because it was not paved. “I was born in a shanty town behind the Rayo Vallecano field,” the Madrid native revealed in an interview with ZendaLibros.
At just three years old, the journalist lived with his parents in his paternal grandparents’ house: “I lived in a shack that my grandfather built with his own hands during the post-war period,” Vallés said at the time. «Let’s say that I am a typical Madrid native, because none of my four grandparents is from Madrid. They met and I was born and raised there, in Vallecas,” he explained, pointing out that He comes from a “very humble” background.
A prestigious career as a journalist and presenter
Was during his childhood when his great interest in journalism began to awakensomething that came to him absolutely spontaneously. Vallés remembered that, from a very young age, he would sit and read the newspaper with his father, thus revealing that communication was always something vocational.
He graduated in Journalism from the Complutense University and, although he is known for his television appearances, the truth is that his career began on the radio. It was Cadena SER that gave him the first opportunity to practice the profession and, some time later, he would become part of the sports section of Spanish Television until 1989.
Vicente Vallés was part of the Spanish Television Sports team until 1989
Telemadrid meant a big change for his career: although he began working in the information services team, he would end up being editor-in-chief of Nacional, and editor of the 8:30 p.m. news program, presented by Hilario Pino. In 1994, he would make the leap to Telecinco as head of National News Telecinco and, just a few years later, he would become director and presenter of the weekend edition.
However, absolute success has come at the hands of Antenna 3, chain in which he is one of the best-known faces and which has allowed him to win absolute national recognition.
His love story with the journalist Ángeles Blanco
On the personal side, the presenter is very well accompanied by a professional colleague. For years, Vallés has shared his life with his television rival, the journalist White Angelswhich has been linked to Mediaset Information Services since 1993.
The television presenter, born in Badajoz in 1972 (50 years old), has a degree in Information Sciences from the Complutense University of Madrid. All His professional career has been linked to Telecincowhere she began working as co-host of the now-defunct ‘Between Today and Tomorrow’ and where she now continues in the weekend edition along with José Ribagorda.
The marriage coincided for the first time in 1999, when both began working together on the Fin de Semana edition of Telecinco. Although their first contact came during Vallés’ time at the Mediaset network, their relationship did not begin until years later and It wasn’t until 2013 when it became official.
Although both are communication aces, the truth is that on a private level they have proven to be very jealous of their privacy, although they have regularly boasted about their love on social networks – Vallés only follows her on her account from Instagram‒. The little that is known about their life together is They live together in the north of Madrid and they both have a sonDaniel, born in 2013.
His traumatic divorce from Lucía Méndez
Before meeting your current partner, Vallés was married for several years to Lucía Méndezjournalist for ‘El Mundo’, with whom he had two children, Laura (1991) and Diego (1997). However, little is really known about the couple’s relationship before their discreet and painful divorce, which marked a turning point in their lives.
Although Vallés himself has avoided talking about their separation, his ex-wife has, who then stated in an interview that one of his greatest personal tragedies It had been “the destruction of his family.”
“Was a very traumatic event. I had a somewhat mystical concept of family, as a unit of destiny… professionally and personally. It cost me a lot of suffering,” Lucía Méndez explained about her divorce in an interview for ‘El Mundo’.
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