Marc Giró has come to El Hormiguero to present his new program on LaSexta, which he decided to title ‘Cara al Xou’, an ironic nod to the official anthem of the Spanish Falange. The space will open “after Easter.”
Giró has been irrepressible from the second zero, conducting the interview wherever he wanted and stunning Pablo Motos who was barely able to ask any questions.
In his role as a television provocateur, Giró was quick to affirm that with him and Motos there were “the two Spains together” on the same set. As he joked, the presenter of El Hormiguero has achieved with him what Arturo Pérez-Reverte has not achieved with David Uclés.
Giró has not hesitated to shake the conservatism of El Hormiguero from within, ensuring that the program’s waiting room “looks like a gay sauna” and launching a proclamation in favor of anal sex to counteract the homophobic joke that César Cadaval, of Los Morancos, made about Jorge Javier Vázquez the night before. When Motos tried to justify it as a simple joke, Giró responded that “anal sex is not a joke, it must be taken seriously.” He also threw a small jab at the presenter: “You were good, you’re starting to stop that kind of thing, although it’s still difficult for you.”
Giró has then led – as was seen coming from the beginning – the conversation towards a criticism of the extreme right within a program that many identify with that political sensitivity. In fact, it was he himself who brought up the subject of Pedro Sánchez, in the absence of questions about it from Motos. Giró even shouts “Long live Pedro Sánchez!” and reproaches the apparent affinity of the program with the extreme right, pointing out that in El Hormiguero “they work very finely” with the president of the Government, but not with the ideology defended by parties like Vox.
Motos, in response, limits himself to defending the importance of cordial dissent. Less correct is Trancas – one of the ants – when he asks Giró to say “something good about the extreme right to compensate.” The presenter responds, now more seriously, that the extreme right “has nothing good,” and warns: “You will see if you vote for it and it ends up governing.” Trancas, however, defends that in El Hormiguero “we are also against fascism: surprise.”
Tamara Falcó, collaborator of El Hormigueor and present on the set, is also not immune to Marc Giró’s provocations. Giró joked about his patriotism, recalling an awards event they worked on together: Falcó was supposed to recite a text in English, but decided to translate it into Spanish on the fly. “That is defending Spain,” Giró ironically said.
The presenter also does not miss the opportunity to throw a barely concealed shade at her by remembering that that night Isabel Preysler’s daughter seemed to be “flying away”, insinuating that Falcó seems to live completely oblivious to reality.
@el_hormiguero Marc Giró presents his new program ‘Cara al show’, which will premiere very soon on @lasexta_ #MarcGiróEH ♬ original sound – El Hormiguero
@el_hormiguero Trancas and Barrancas interview Marc Giró #MarcGiróEH ♬ original sound – El Hormiguero
@el_hormiguero The day Marc Giró decided to always wear a suit #MarcGiróEH ♬ original sound – El Hormiguero
