Juan García Postigo (born January 19, 1982) is a Spanish actor, model,

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, entrepreneur, and male

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titleholder who won the

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2006 competition, and then later on won the

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title in

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, China. He is the first Spaniard to have won the title of

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. As an actor, García is best known for his roles in the

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'' (2003), '' ¡A ver si llego!'' (2009), and ''

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Biography

Early life and education

García was born on January 19, 1982 in Málaga, Costa del Sol,

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. He attended the Colegio Público Ramón Simonet for his primary education. As a teenager, García played indoor soccer and was his school team's

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. He was discovered at seventeen (17) years old by Manuel Beltrán, a director of a talent management agency in Málaga, while García was commencing studies for a

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degree at the University of Malaga. His foray into modeling and beauty pageant competitions, and then consequently acting, was accidental and with much hesitation at first. García's parents, especially his mother, wanted him to pursue and complete his degree before anything else. His parents did not want him to get distracted from his studies.

Career and business ventures

As a lover of wine, García is also a licensed sommelier with professional training from the Escuela de Cocina de Barcelona, and official certification from the Federación de Asociaciones de Bármanes Españoles (FABE). As an entrepreneur and hotelier, García is one of three founding partners of the Hotel Málaga Premium. He is co-owner of La Terraza Oasis de Málaga, a terrace bar, and of the Alcazaba Premium Hostel Málaga.

Pageantry

García first trained as a model under a talent management agency in

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. A few months after training, he was already walking the runways of several Spanish fashion designers and gracing the catalogs of popular menswear brands in Spain. García's decision to enter pageantry was, at first, made in jest.

Mister Spain 2006

While García was working at his brother's bar in

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, one of his friends dared him to enter the Mister Málaga 2006 competition, a precursory contest that chooses the Málagan representative to the

competition. He disclosed in later interviews that the decision to compete at Mister Málaga and then Mister Spain 2006 was "just for fun... to have a good time," and that he did not expect to win both competitions.

Mister World 2007

After winning the Míster España title, García represented

at the

competition in

, China. During the preliminaries, García and the other

delegates competed in a number of events, including the sports and extreme challenge competitions where they had to hike and climb a mountain on

island, as well as practice

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and

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. For the talent competition, García, a licensed sommelier, opted to demonstrate the wine decantation process. On March 31, 2007 at the finals held in

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, China, García was declared

, besting 57 other contestants. García reigned until March 27, 2010, and then passed on his title to

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Kamal Ibrahim of

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. García is the first and only

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winner, thus far. As a former Mister World, García was a judge at the

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competition held in

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Views on cosmetic surgery

When asked if he had anything done on his face, Garcia said in an interview that although he has nothing against cosmetic surgery, he has done no aesthetic surgery to enhance his appearance, and that the only surgical procedure he has ever had is an appendectomy, as he once suffered from

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Filmography

Television

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Postigo, Juan Francisco Spanish male models Mister World winners People from Málaga Living people 1982 births Male beauty pageant winners Male actors from Madrid Spanish male television actors Spanish male film actors People from Andalusia Spanish beauty pageant winners Sommeliers University of Málaga alumni