Jesús Mariñas dies at the age of 79 after not overcoming the cancer he suffered


Mourning in the press of the heart. Jesús Marinas has died this Tuesday at the age of 79 after not overcoming the cancer he suffered. The news has been advanced by the newspaper La Razón, in which she has collaborated for more than a decade, and has been verified by YOTELE.

The journalist from chronicle rosa was battling bladder cancer diagnosed in October 2021. Mariñas had been admitted for more than a month in a hospital center after his health condition worsened. Despite this situation, his vocation was stronger and it was active until a few days agowhen he published his last column in Diez Minutos magazine about Isabel Pantoja’s projects.

Jesus Marinas was born in La Coruna, but in his youth he moved to Madrid to work as a journalist, having previously passed through Castellón and Barcelona. In La Coruña he began to work as a bellman in “El ideal gallego & rdquor; and there he began to make friends with great figures of the theater such as María Fernanda Ladrón de Guevara.

Thanks to his relationships, he began to work in several magazines and to collaborate in Luis del Olmo’s ‘Protagonistas’, where he commented on the lives of the best-known characters. However, the highlight of his career came with the program ‘raffle’ of Channel 9. In the space of interviews with personalities of the heart they became mythical his discussions with Karmele Marchante. In fact, his phrase “Shut up, Karmele” became very popular at the time and is already part of the popular imagination.

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On television he has collaborated on other programs, mainly Maria Theresa Fieldswho counted on him for ‘Pasa la vida’ on TVE, ‘Cada día’ on Antena 3 and ‘Day by day’ and ‘What a happy time’ on Telecinco. In recent times she had sporadically participated in ‘Public mirror’ either ‘Save me’.

the journalist is dead accompanied by Elio Valderrama, his partner for more than 32 years, and with whom he had been married for six. Elio has been his great support during these last hard months and has stayed with the journalist until the last moment.


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