Ramón García: "Only fools ask to break the law so that there is heifer in the Grand Prix. And I'm a bullfighter"

• PABLO R. ROCES

  @Pavlinrodriguez

  Madrid

Updated Wednesday,16August2023-01:32

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Presenting Ramón García (Bilbao, 1961) is perhaps the most absurd act one can undertake in life. Because, unless he has lived locked in a cave for the last 30 years, there is no average Spaniard who does not react to the name of Ramontxu, does not relate the cape to the Chimes or does not hum the tune of What we bet or the Grand Prix. And if anyone missed, the grandfather program and grandfather's child are back. Feel comfortable as it begins.

How does it feel to be on that Grand Prix set? Have you fallen any tears with the return? The word is the emotion of reliving what happened 28 years ago when we created that format. I am sewn to this format, I remember the colleagues who are no longer there. In fact, in the last recording came retired colleagues who have worked on the Grand Prix and it was beautiful. And if some tears fell when I saw the stands full of people bouncing the first day.Did you never think you would not do it again? Carlo Boserman, the executive producer, and I have struggled every year. Carlos has never given up but he did say at some point that we still had to leave him, but the date came and we would fight back again. And the audience is proving us right, the Grand Prix is an eternal format, it just has to be attached to the times, without losing the essence. The data among children who had never seen it are spectacular, study. It is always said that this country has changed a lot in 20 years, but at least in children it seems that not so much because of those dataIt has changed for the better, we are much better in everything, but the Grand Prix is so entertaining, so simple and after fun that children are hypnotized. Those of now, those who will come and those who were. Therefore. In that renovation, do you miss the heifer? There is no such debate anymore. When there was no Animal Welfare Law, I always fought for the Grand Prix with heifer, there have always been complaints and problems, right from the beginning. When the law comes out, the conversation is over, it's like when smoking was banned in the places. The law is above any reasoning. I am a bullfighter and I am the one who has fought the most for the heifer to be there, but you cannot go against the law. That's only thought by fools, that there are more than bottles.Has it taken too long for the Grand Prix to return? Yes, I could have gone back two years after removing it with impressive data, let the managers who said no look at it. They were removing these programs because they are very expensive, but they give good performance. Those were different times, I in TVE have taken away programs with a 20 or 22% share and now it is at 9% the average. We have done 26.1% in the first, we have tripled the audience of the chain. No one does it and it has a lot of merit. It is a lesson for many people in the offices who do not value the work, effort and memory of the public. I hope that those who told us do not reflect on the very serious mistake they made. No, what the hell, on the contrary, is work. I only ask you to reflect and understand that we were right to defend this project. Time has given it to us. Maybe we have to go back to entertainment and not just political talk shows. Maybe, what needs to be done is television, not televised radio. Today four people sitting talking about politics or heart are already a program. That is televised radio, television is spectacle and image. But it's much cheaper to seat four guys with three cameras and that's it. Therefore, people who did not know the Grand Prix have signed up mostly for the color, the sets and the games.Can Ramón García be the most beloved uncle by the peoples of Spain? I don't know, but they made me a statue in a village that was at the Grand Prix and I was amazed. Some free food would also fall, wouldn't it? No, no, no, I am very respectful and very shy. I never gave a proclamation, and they asked me for many, because I did not have time and it was A comparative grievance to give some yes and others no. I have felt very loved, we live in cities where we do not even know who the neighbor opposite is. That closeness of the peoples is wonderful and I feel very close to them. If we have dusted off the Grand Prix, can we dust off the cape again? My cape is always kept and when there is an interesting opportunity I take it out. I keep doing the Chimes, but in a different medium. I've given the bells in four different decades, since 1995, nobody has done that. I've covered it, I've had audiences that no one else is going to have anymore and I like to do new things. That's why I proposed it to Ibai because I like to get together with young people, it gives me life. Ibai is a great communicator, undoubtedly one of the best in this country. And with a flexibility that many veterans would like. I would like it. Those who criticize him is out of pure envy and because they are mediocre who are not able to get to him. Have you ever entered? In my life, and I still don't get in. There are some little things that interest me, but there is a generation gap. I spend my little free time on other things and you have to take time for those platforms. But they are the present and the future, whoever does not want to see it is wrong. That's why I was the one who proposed those bells to Ibai, not him to me as they say. If 400,000 people watch a guy on a platform eating pizza with friends, they do something interesting. And on top of that, he is a countryman and a follower of my programs since he was a child.

If I lose the illusion or slacken, I will leave the television alone, nobody will have to tell me

Your beginnings are as a DJ, are you still with it? I play music in my program in Castilla-La Mancha every day and the previous Grand Prix I always do it with music. It is a shot of adrenaline and I enjoy it very much.¿In trap and reggaeton has entered? I put everything, absolutely everything. I'm not very reggaeton for my years, but if there is a song that sounds a lot of reggaeton that summer I put it. How can I not put it if a majority audience likes it? You can not go against the majority, I do not listen to reggaeton in the car, but if people like it I put it. In my parents' clubs I always told the DJs that you have to play the music that people like to dance to. And I do the same. Now, together with Juan y Medio, you are the cupid of the elderly but in Castilla-La Mancha.Son seven long years with three hours of live every afternoon in In company. I don't know anyone who does it at my age, but above that is helping real people and it makes me very happy to work here. We have made more than a thousand couples, elderly people who were alone, who come later to kiss you and cry from the illusion. There's no money to pay for that right now. It is a brutal beating to combine it with the Grand Prix, but in my 40 years of profession this is a gift. And it was Juan, who is like a brother, who encouraged me to do it. No, not at all, my professional and emotional expectations are perfectly met in company. The Grand Prix has been a gift, everything that comes already at this age is a gift in the professional. I haven't lost an ounce of excitement every time the camera light is turned on because it makes me happy. People tell me I'm better than at 40, throwing myself on the floor and enjoying myself. Desire to retire, none, from what I seeFor now no, this is my job and I still like it. But the first critic with Ramón García is Ramón García and the day I see that I slack, that I have lost the illusion or I am not in conditions, I will leave alone, nobody will have to tell me.

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