On Cristina Tárrega's bedside table there are two things, a Bible and some texts by Gandhi. It is no coincidence, nor does she have them on her back because it seems that she is more Catholic than the Pope or more pacifist than a white dove, she has them on her bedside table because the real Cristina Tárrega, who is "like anyone" has a maxim in her life: "I am conciliatory by nature".

Probably, for that reason and because emotions is what best controls the journalist and presenter, Unicorn Content, the producer of her two great friends Ana Rosa Quintana and Xelo Montesinos, thought of her for the recently released Life without filters. An emotainment and talk-show reinvented in which Cristina Tárrega stands in the middle of the set without knowing what she is going to find, or who, or where what she finds can end up.

Although during these last two years -after the end of Nocturnal Animals- she has never left the medium, Tárrega did not find neither the project nor the opportunity she wanted to return to the front of a program. He has returned in a big way, in prime time on Saturdays and with competition from the hard, La Voz Kids, but he does not care. He compares himself to Cholo Simeone, "match by match, but without so much money". And laugh, Cristina Tárrega laughs a lot and makes you laugh with her.

Her cynicism, sarcasm and sincerity turn around that diva character that is usually had of her: "Well, as a diva, nothing, beautiful. You now tell me to go to the village market and I'm the first. You tell me that you have to scrub, then to scrub. You tell me to wash your hair and I'll leave it with a shine..."

Why now put yourself back in the front line of fire? Until now there was no feeling with anything they proposed to me. Look, I have done pedagogical work that has taken me a long time to be in profile waiting for a program like Life without filters. I got things I liked, others I didn't, but I didn't think it was all worth it. I had to wait for this moment to face the audiences, the viewer, to talk about myself and to host a program. I have education and respect. I'm very well raised (laughs). I have so much respect that sometimes I play dumb for polite. I shut up a lot and they think I'm stupid, but I don't have a hair silly. I'm not the smartest either, huh? You play dumb and when they least expect it, you take out the paw and catch them out of play. Leaving people out of the game is wonderful.
Have you left a lot of people out of the game? A lot...

Silence.

What or who would make you lose that education? I can't deal with injustices. With that I lose my nerve. I lost them once because they were being so unfair to me and I lost them because they were leading me down a path that was a lie. I had a terrible time. There is no need to tell the episode because everyone knows it. That's when my flesh opened.

The episode to which Cristina Tárrega refers, but which she does not want to remember or mention, is when Diego Arrabal, collaborator of Sálvame in 2019, assured that Cristina Tárrega had had an affair with Jesulín de Ubrique. That news crumbled the foundations of the presenter and was the only time she lost the papers. It was never repeated.


Who would you not have a filter with? The only person who wouldn't have it is Pedro Sanchez. Put me to Sanchez that I interview him and I do not escape alive. But not because I like it or I don't like it or it's from one party or another, but because with him I wouldn't have any filter. I do not go through the hills of Úbeda, I tell you that.

In reality, Life Without Filters is not a character talk show, it is a show about human beings, emotions, all of them, the good, the regular and the worst. And in the middle Cristina Tárrega to control and to suffer. He says that the eyelashes he wears are false and that in more than one of the eight programs that have been recorded he ends up with them on the floor.

Cristina Tárrega began her career in the 80s on the radio at Radio Valencia and later continued her professional career at Los 40 Principales and Cadena Ser. It is so particular that after working in La Razón and in the As he made the leap to television with a bullfighting program of Canal +. From there came Sola in the city, Comanche territory, Cristina, my friend ...

How do you cope with having been and being an erotic myth? You know that a spectator confessed that she masturbated watching you... What a need! I will tell you that grateful because, and this is true, everything is genetic. However, the reality is that I had a very bad time at the beginning because I wanted to do news and they did not like my image. I would go to the casting and they would see me blonde and busty and say 'where are you going?' Even today I am buying reducing fasteners. The only operation I've had is a breast reduction. I have always tried to hide these attributes because I was very exuberant and closed many doors for me. I took it fatally.

I don't like to play with anyone's bread, nor do I like them to play with mine.

He insists that, although everyone considered her a Hermida girl, she never worked with him. She only saw him once. At that time Cristina Tárrega had the pallets very separated and it was Hermina who told her that "with that Alibaba tunnel" she could never work in television. His first salary was spent on fixing his teeth. "I was like crazy, I loved it. He sent me straight to the dentist," she recalls.

In Life Without Filters there is a section, 100 seconds, in which two people with some pending account sit face to face and have to endure that time in absolute silence. Do you have any outstanding accounts? Yes, I have outstanding accounts like everyone else. I don't think there's anyone in the world who doesn't have any. But I don't know if I would be able to sit there. You have to be very brave to endure those 100 seconds. I don't know. You can't listen, you can't speak... I don't know if I'm ready.Who would you sit down? I say it and I beg it: to Macarena Olona with Santiago Abascal. That would be wonderful. They say you are very demanding. Yes, I am and it hurts to squabble. I am a person that when I demand you, I laugh at you, but then I have to reconcile with you because I know that I have been hard and I have to explain to you one and three times more why so that you understand it and you can grow, we can grow together. Does self-demand kill you? Self-demand, no, responsibility. We all have to be held accountable because we are always playing with someone's money. The worst thing is that they play with mine or I play with others. I don't like to play with anyone's bread, nor do I like them to play with mine. Whenever you play with someone's bread, you pay for it. Every day I see it more.


The networks are cowardly, very cowardly.

Are you afraid of criticism? I don't read the reviews and I closed the networks a long time ago for mental health. People are being hammered by criticism, but not just celebrities or journalists, anonymous people. You can't live if a hater comes in and tells you you're fat. I'm seeing this with girls who have gone into a very complicated eating disorder. What about networks? The networks are cowardly, very cowardly.Are we losing a little north? Without a doubt. I work in a communication agency and I work a lot in the digital world and media buying and it is not the same to work to position a brand than to inform. There is no control. You have been very critical of Shakira or Ana Obregón. Would you interview them? Of course. I know them both. I have not disrespected them, I have only said that children are very delicate.

Do you know what a PAS is? Highly sensitive person. Well, that's me.

Have you paid a high price for your sincerity? All the time. Every quarter of an hour.And you don't learn? I'm not going to change at this point. Those who love me already love me and love me very much. I already know what it's like to be alone. I have been alone with a family, with my parents in Valencia and me with a 9-year-old boy and a husband in China.Cristina Tárrega would kill for interviewing... To my husband -the former footballer José María Quevedo-. He is a very introverted person and when he was a footballer he did not let me interview him. Not when we were dating or before. It's something that unnerves me. He said, 'I'll never give you an interview.' And, of course, I fell in love...

La Tárrega gets up, asks you for a "kiss" and drops a question: Do you know what a PAS is? Highly sensitive person. Well, that's me. Sometimes I hate myself, but that fascinates people, because all that image of blonde with hair, with a very big mouth is not me. I am very humble and very sensitive." The humble thing was taught to him by his grandmother "with a slap".

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