''La Fan'', is an American

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produced by

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, is a story written by Marcela Citterio and inspired by an idea of history

Angélica Vale Angélica María Vale Hartman (born November 11, 1975), known professionally as Angélica Vale, is a Mexican-American actress, singer, impersonator, comedian, and radio personality, known also as the daughter of Angélica María, "La Novia de Me ...

. The story revolves around the life of a famous

telenovelas A telenovela is a type of a television serial drama or soap opera produced primarily in Latin America. The word combines ''tele'' (for "television") and ''novela'' (meaning "novel"). Similar drama genres around the world include ''teleserye'' (P ...

actor and his faithful follower who is his number one fan. The series stars

as Valentina, Juan Pablo Espinosa as Lucas, and

Scarlet Ortiz Scarlet Ortiz (born Hevis Scarlet Ortiz Pacheco) is a Venezuelan actress known for her role in telenovelas. Biography Scarlet started her acting career in a children's show called Nubeluz in Venezuela. She also participated in Miss Venezuela ...

as Salma. On January 12, 2017, the first chapter of the telenovela was published with a duration of 20 minutes as a special before the premiere.

Plot summary

Vale (

) is a cheerful, humble, simple woman, and a fanatic of a soap opera actor, the famous Lucas Duarte ( Juan Pablo Espinosa). The lives of Vale and Lucas cross one day, by what they call destiny, luck or magic. While she is hidden inside a giant Pizza outfit, handing out flyers of the place where she works, she saves her beloved actor's life, but in reality, everything is part of one of the scenes of the telenovela. That is the first meeting between Lucas and Vale, but not the only one. Lucas's representative, Gabriel (

Gabriel Porras Gabriel Porras (born Carlos Gabriel Porras Flores, February 13, 1968 in Mexico City, Mexico) is a Mexican actor. He began his acting career working for TV Azteca in telenovelas like "Tres Veces Sofia" along with Mexican diva Lucía Méndez and " ...

), comes up with the idea of creating a contest for all his fans and after cheating a little, names Vale the winner. Vale, delighted, has lunch with him and ends up saving his life, now for real. After this Vale becomes his personal assistant and shadow, in other words, his guardian angel. Vale begins to know who Lucas Duarte really is (is hobbies, his defects) but even so, she loves him more and more. Lucas begins to realize who his real fan is...her strength, her light, her brilliance and, in spite of himself, he begins to fall in love with her. But like in every story, there is a dark past, a past that can transform their love into something impossible. Even though neither of them knows, Lucas is the father of Tomás (Emmanuel Perez), the son of Lucia, Vale's friend, who Vale has raised as if it were hers since her friend died. He is the man Vale hates for abandoning her friend. Vale is at a crossroads, she must decide whether to stand up for her deceased friend or to remain what she has always been: the fan.

Cast

Starring

as Valentina Pérez * Juan Pablo Espinosa as Lucas Duarte *

Miguel Varoni Miguel Américo Belloto Gutiérrez (born 11 December 1964), known professionally as Miguel Varoni, is a Colombian-Argentinian host, actor and director. He is married to Colombian actress Catherine Siachoque. He is the son of the actress Teresa ...

as Justin Case / El Director *

as Salma Beltrán *

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as Adriana Zubizarreta *

Jonathan Islas Jonathan Christian Islas Porras best known as Jonathan Islas (born on November 15, 1979, in Mexico City, Mexico) is a Mexican actor mainly known for his roles in various telenovelas. Career He started his acting career in theatrical shows i ...

as Diego Castro *

as Gabriel Bustamante

Also starring

* Omar Germenos as Carlos Zubizarreta * Gloria Peralta as Eloisa Romero * Elsy Reyes as Felicitas * Begoña Narváez as Jessica González *

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as Benicio Torres * Gabriel Rossi as Miguel Castro * Josette Vidal as Miriam del Carmen * Ricardo Kleinbaum as Enrique Julio Gardiazabal / Quique * Lorena de la Garza as Natalia *

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as Nicolás *

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as Bárbara Blanco *

Maritza Bustamante Maritza Bustamante Abidar, better known as Maritza Bustamante, (born September 26, 1980) is a Venezuelan actress and model. Sister of the animator Nelson Bustamante. She is mostly known for her participation in Venezuelan telenovelas with the TV ...

as Lucía Hernández / Úrsula Molina * Mario Espitia as Agustín Peterlini * Freddy Florez as Roberto Flores / Bob *

Roberto Plantier Roberto Plantier (born May 26, 1979, Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico), is a Mexican actor of telenovelas A telenovela is a type of a television serial drama or soap opera produced primarily in Latin America. The word combines ''tele'' ...

as Dr. Damián Arévalo * Fernando Pacanins as Víctor Carrizo *

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as Rodrigo Gómez * Emmanuel Pérez as Tomás Hernández

Special guest stars

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as Paloma *

Daniel Elbittar Daniel Elbittar Villegas (born April 30, 1979), is a Venezuelan actor, model and singer, considered one of the 50 Most Beautiful TV, is also famous for acting in telenovelas. Personal life Elbittar has been married since 2014 to Venezuelan ac ...

as Leonardo Márquez / El Potro *

Catherine Siachoque María Alexandra Catherine Siachoque Gaete (born 21 January 1973) is a Colombian actress best known for her (mostly villainess) roles in numerous telenovelas. Early life Siachoque was born in Bogota, Colombia. Career Siachoque has appeared ...

as Isabel *

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as Silvia *

Jorge Luis Pila Jorge Luis Pila (born August 3, 1972) is a Czech-born Cuban actor, known for acting in Telenovelas like La Patrona (2013), Yacaranday (1999). His debut was in Al norte del corazón (1997). His mother is from Czech Republic and his father is from ...

as El Tuerto *

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as Franco Villar *

David Chocarro David Chocarro (born 5 April 1980) is an Argentine actor, model and former baseball player. Career Born in Buenos Aires, Chocarro entered the Mexican market for telenovelas through the front door as part of the cast of '' Los Exitosos Perez'' ...

as Ricardo Ernesto / Richard Ernestón * Ligia Petit as Roxana *

Angélica María Angélica María Hartman Ortiz (born September 27, 1944), known professionally as La novia de Mexico (Mexico's sweetheart), is an American-Mexican actress and singer-songwriter. Her songs El hombre de mi vida (The man of my life) peaked at No. ...

as Valentina Gardiazabal / Mamita *

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as Carmen Córdoba *

Wanda D'Isidoro Wanda Catherine D’Isidoro Arcolín (born October 20, 1977 in Boston, Massachusetts) is a Venezuelan actress. D'Isidoro was born to an American mother and a Sicilian father, who met when her mother was an actress. They married and moved to Ven ...

as Guadalupe "Lupita" * Laura Chimaras as Renata Izaguirre * Eduardo Serrano as Pascual Blanco *

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as Dolores "Lola" D'Alessandro * Fabián Ríos as Guillermo "Willy" del Castillo *

Henry Zakka Henry Zakka (born July 29, 1956, Caracas, Venezuela) is a Venezuelan actor and director who began acting in the 1980s and 1990s in RCTV Radio Caracas Televisión (RCTV) was a Venezuelan free-to-air television network headquartered in the Cara ...

as Dr. Machado * Fernanda Castillo as La Parka * José Ramón Blanch as Rogelio Gutiérrez / La Bestia *

Carlos Ponce Carlos Armando Ponce Freyre Jr. (born September 4, 1972) is a Puerto Rican actor, musician, model, and television personality. Ponce began his acting career by participating in Spanish language soap operas for Televisa and Telemundo. Ponce contin ...

as Luis Alberto Fontan *

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as Himself *

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as Karina * Dad Dáger as Patricia

Production

The production of the telenovela was confirmed on July 5, 2016, and the production concluded on December 22, 2016. The production is mainly recorded in

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, the first scenes were made in

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. Vale explained that the idea arose as she wanted to pay homage to all her fans and followers of the telenovela ''

La fea más bella ''La Fea Más Bella'' ("The Prettiest Ugly Girl or the ugliest the most beautiful “) is a Mexican telenovela produced by Televisa. It is the second Mexican version of the popular Colombian telenovela: '' Betty la fea'' (the first is Azteca Tre ...

''.

The series is an original idea written by

in 2009, which has a promotional video uploaded to

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that same year. The story is adapted by Marcela Citterio based on the idea of Angélica, is directed by

, Claudio Callao and Otto Rodríguez and as executive producers

Carmen Cecilia Urbaneja Carmen Cecilia Urbaneja is a Venezuelan producer best known for her association with Telemundo and RCTV Radio Caracas Televisión (RCTV) was a Venezuelan free-to-air television network headquartered in the Caracas neighborhood of Quinta Cres ...

, José Gerardo Guillén and David Posada and as general producer

. Vale said that the series will have a bit of

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format.

Promotion

The first advance of the telenovela was presenting during the event broadcast by

entitled, ''La Fiesta Latina de iHeart Radio''. The telenovela was presented in Natpe the same day they finished the production.

Casting

In May 2016

confirmed her return to the

, after being 10 years away from the dramatic genre. On August 3, 2016, Vale confirmed the participation of Juan Pablo Espinosa as the protagonist of the story.

was chosen as the main villain of the story, and marks the debut of the actress in the network

who besides being the director of the telenovela, his character Justin Case will have the same role of Varoni in the production of the

as it will be a character who works as director, also confirmed the participation of

in the production. Espinosa confirmed through his

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the participation of

in the telenovela, the actress and presenter who was 8 years away from the telenovelas.

Shows cancelled

A total of 114 episodes were confirmed for series. Due to the low rating of primetime that had the series,

canceled the series, despite the number of cliffhangers, and only 54 episodes were programmed to be transmitted.

Ratings

Episodes

The series premiered in

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at 2pm and had a total of 65 episodes, while in its original broadcast had 54 episodes.

Awards and nominations

References

External links

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