Jesús Manuel Pérez Mariñas (3 October 1942 – 10 May 2022) was a Spanish gossip journalist.
Career
Mariñas was born on 3 October 1942 in
A Coruña
A Coruña (; es, La Coruña ; historical English: Corunna or The Groyne) is a city and municipality of Galicia, Spain. A Coruña is the most populated city in Galicia and the second most populated municipality in the autonomous community and s ...
, Galicia, Spain.
At the age of 14 he began to study declamation at the Conservatory of his hometown and, influenced by a teacher, because he wanted to be an artist, he studied journalism at the
Autonomous University of Barcelona.
Later he moved to Madrid where, thanks to the help of the journalist linked to the press of the Franco regime , he worked in the newspaper '. In 1967 he moved to Barcelona and working for ' he began to know the world of the
gossip journalism, working as editor of magazines such as ''Semana'' and ''
Pronto''.
At the end of the 70's he began to work in the program ''Protagonistas'', of , first at Radio Peninsular, then at
Radio Nacional de España
Radio Nacional de España (acronym RNE, branded rne, "National Radio of Spain") is the national state-owned public service radio broadcaster in Spain.
RNE is the radio division and Televisión Española (TVE) is the television division of R ...
(RNE) and finally at
COPE, until June 1988.
That year he joined Radio Miramar in Barcelona to be part of the program ''Cosas'' and ''Mitad y mitad'' and collaborated in COPE's program ''El primero de la mañana'' and worked for ''Época'' magazine, until 2000.
In the 90's Mariñas jumped to television, the peak of his professional career.
He then collaborated in successful programs like ''La máquina de la verdad'' –alongside
María Teresa Campos
María Teresa Campos Luque (born 18 June 1941) is a Spanish journalist and television presenter.
She was born in Tétouan, then Spanish protectorate in Morocco, the third of the six children of an upper-middle-class family. She moved to Má ...
– ''Pasa la vida'' and ''Día a día''.
At the end of that decade he began his career in the program ''Tómbola'' with
Karmele Marchante,
Lydia Lozano
Lydia Lozano Hernández (born 12 December 1960) is a Spanish journalist and television panelist associated with the Mediaset España group.
Biography
Born in Madrid, Lozano's family is from El Paso, on the Canary Island of La Palma. After sh ...
and , becoming one of the most highly paid periodites in the industry.
His subsequent career was spent in the TV programs such as ''En Antena'' (2006), ''¿Dónde estás corazón?'' (2007), ''A 3 bandas'' (2007), ''Tal cual lo contamos'' (2008), ''Vaya par'' (2009) and ''Espejo público'' (2009-2012), ''Sálvame'' (since 2013), ''Qué tiempo tan feliz'', ''Sábado Deluxe'' and ''La Mañana de la 1''. In Summer 2021 published his own book, 'Jesús por Mariñas, memorias desde el corazón'.
Controversies and legal problems
Mariñas was known to be quite controversial. He received a warning from the office of the Prime Minister of Spain
Felipe González
Felipe González Márquez (; born 5 March 1942) is a Spanish lawyer, professor, and politician, who was the Secretary-General of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) from 1974 to 1997, and the 3rd Prime Minister of Spain since the ...
for his treatment of his wife
Carmen Romero López
Carmen Romero López (born 15 November 1946), is a Spanish politician. From 2009 to 2014, she served as a member of the European Parliament, representing Spain for the Spanish Socialist Workers Party
The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party ( es ...
. In 1991, together with the director of the magazine ''Épocas'' Jaime Campmany, they were sentenced to pay 21 million pesetas for "moral damages" to the socialite
Marta Chávarri, since the court considered that her chronicles were "an unlawful interference in the rights to honor and to personal and family privacy". In August of that same year, he received a punch from the Nobel Prize writer
Camilo José Cela
Camilo José Cela y Trulock, 1st Marquess of Iria Flavia (; 11 May 1916 – 17 January 2002) was a Spanish novelist, poet, story writer and essayist associated with the Generation of '36 movement.
He was awarded the 1989 Nobel Prize in Literat ...
, because Mariñas accused him of selling his wedding to a magazine.
Personal life and death
He married Venezuelan photographer Elio Valderrama, his partner for 27 years, on 18 July 2016.
In October 2021 he announced that two months earlier he was diagnosed with
bladder cancer
Bladder cancer is any of several types of cancer arising from the tissues of the urinary bladder. Symptoms include blood in the urine, pain with urination, and low back pain. It is caused when epithelial cells that line the bladder become mali ...
. He was urgently admitted to the Ramón y Cajal Hospital in Madrid on 31 March 2022.
Mariñas died on 10 May 2022 at the age of 79 at the Madrilenian hospital of San Rafael.
References
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1942 births
2022 deaths
People from A Coruña
20th-century Spanish journalists
21st-century Spanish journalists
Spanish columnists
Spanish radio presenters
Spanish male journalists
Spanish LGBT journalists
Spanish LGBT broadcasters
Spanish gay writers
Gay journalists
Gossip columnists
20th-century Spanish male writers
21st-century Spanish male writers
Deaths from cancer in Spain
Deaths from bladder cancer
20th-century Spanish LGBT people
21st-century Spanish LGBT people