From her beginnings on TV, Magaly Medina caused controversy. In 1991, she in the extinct television space “Crossfire” Augusto Ferrando was being interviewed when the host asked “Urraca” if she liked “Springboard to Fame”, to which she replied negatively and explained her reasons.
“To say that I like it would be a huge lie. I don’t like his show, I don’t like him. In other words, as a person I have never treated him, but I do not think of the people he criticizes as a person; that is apart; Personally, I never leave. But as a person I don’t like it because it has made the need of the people its show” Medina said at first.
“He has made the rating of the humiliation of the people. It has achieved its rating and is undoubtedly successful. (People) don’t like to be humiliated, but if people have needs in this life, in our country there is a lot of need, and if they have to go to a program where they will receive money in exchange for, well, clowning around on the show or letting them call him the green candle, he does,” he added.
Magaly Medina and her two ex-husbands
Although Magaly Medina is very much in love with her current husband, Alfredo Zambrano, it is known that he was not the first to steal the heart of the controversial presenter. Before him, the host of “Magaly TV, the firm” married Marco Mendoza, and then César Lengua, who was her professor at the university and also press officer.
The time Magaly Medina said that Alan García wanted to pardon her
When Magaly Medina was in jail, she received an offer that few would reject. It was about her forgiveness for her crime that she was charged with and the offer came from none other than former President Alan García.
It was the driver who confirmed the case after being asked by Beto Ortiz in 2014 on his program “La hora de la Verdad”, but at that time she did not give details.
However, in 2017 he returned to the subject and on the newscast “90 matinal” in Latina he reiterated the proposal made by the former president. After interviewing Rafael Rey, a Peruvian politician, about the pardon given to Alberto Fujimori by the then Head of State, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, which was later invalidated by the Supreme Court.
“When I was in jail, President García offered me a pardon through his close associates. They offered me a pardon because they felt like it, because there was no reason to get me out of jail. I still hadn’t completed my period, I wasn’t sick, neither to the point of madness nor on the verge of death”, specified the ‘Urraca’.
Why did Magaly Medina not accept the pardon offered by Alan García?
Through her YouTube channel, the TV presenter shared a video where she explained the entire process that happened in Santa Monica. In addition, she remembered why she never agreed to be pardoned despite Garcia’s offer.
“We could go out with the pardon, but I refused, and not out of arrogance. I refused because I always considered the sentence to be unfair. I considered that I went to jail to prevent people who worked with me from going to prison, ”she maintained.
Who was the protagonist of Magaly Medina’s first ampay?
On December 18, 1997, Magaly Medina He made his first ampay public for his program. The material starred the actor Paul Martin, who, apparently, was enjoying his vacations in Cuba. “Here is the video where Paul Martin is seen in Varadero, Cuba, away from the cameras, away from the people who know him here in Lima and see how unprejudiced he is when no one sees him,” commented the presenter.
Paul Martin starred in Magaly Medina’s first ampay. Photo: capture YouTube
How many times have Magaly Medina and Alfredo Zambrano separated?
Magaly Medina and Alfredo Zambrano celebrated five years of marriage on December 9, 2021 and to celebrate they held a ceremony in Cartagena (Colombia), in which they renewed their wedding vows. However, not everything has been happiness for the couple, because on two occasions they have separated.
The first separation occurred in 2015 when Magaly Medina and Alfredo Zambrano took different paths due to the incompatibility of their characters; however, months later they decided to continue their relationship. The second estrangement occurred in 2021 but, just 2 months later, Magaly Medina explained that she decided to resume her relationship with Alfredo Zambrano.
Magaly Medina and Alfredo Zambrano were married in 2016. Photo: composition/La República
Magaly Medina and the time she faced Servando and Florentino
In 2006, the duo from Venezuela returned to Peru to hold a massive concert. However, the tension between the salseros and Magaly Medina was so great that it became one of the most iconic moments on Peruvian television. As is recalled, the television host rebuked them for the concert they gave in our country, in the 1997 Home Fair where five young women died because of poor organization.
What career did Magaly Medina study?
Magaly Medina studied at the Jaime Bausate y Meza University in 1980; however, she did not complete her studies at the then School of Journalism.
