Juan Francisco "Kiko" Matamoros Hernández (born 27 December 1956) is a Spanish television personality.

Early life

The son of Manuel Matamoros Ripoll and Enriqueta Hernández Martín, Matamoros was born into a middle-class family. For a year, he studied law at the Complutense University of Madrid. A little later, Matamoros started a career as a model and met Marián Flores, who would later become his first wife. Marián was one of the models on the game show '' Un, dos, tres... responda otra vez'': little by little, Flores left showbiz and lived a quieter life with Matamoros. Whilst married to Marián, Kiko started to work as an agent for artists, including his brother-in-law Mar Flores. He and Marián split in an amicable divorce, but he broke off all communication with her family. Kiko started a new relationship with Makoke, and restarted his career as an agent. He was the agent of socialite

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until her passing in 2004: she became one of his best friends. This friendship helped him to rise to fame. In 1999, he had his first TV appearance as 'Juan Matamoros' on ''

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'', on which his younger brother Coto worked. In 2002, he worked on the chat show ''

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'' on Telecinco. In 2005, he took part in the

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of ''

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'': he withdrew after two weeks. After this Matamoros started to work on other Telecinco programmes including ''Sálvame'', '' A tu lado'', '' La Noria'' and '' Resistiré, ¿vale?''. He also started an acting career on the Telecinco drama ''Esposados''. He also had a small part in the film '' Torrente 4: Lethal Crisis''. In 2017 and 2018 he appeared as one of the country's worst debt defaulters, surmounting to €1,016,643 in 2018. In 2022, Matamoros was confirmed as a contestant on ''Supervivientes: Perdidos en Honduras''. He finished 8th, voted out on the 73rd day.

Personal life

Matamoros had four children with Marián Flores: Lucía (1985), Diego (1986), Laura (1993) and Irene (1998). He has one niece and one nephew: Matías Matamoros (2018) and Benjamín Matamoros (2021), children of his sister Laura. He also had a daughter with Makoke: Ana (2000). Kiko's younger brother is media personality Coto Matamoros, with whom he worked on ''Crónicas marcianas''. His cousin was the writer

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, until her death in 2021.

References

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