2023-08-17 17:38:53
The journalist Hilario López Millán died this Thursday, August 17 as a result of “extreme dehydration.” The communicator, a native of the Albacete town of Hellín ―where he has a street named after him―, was one of the pioneers of the gossip and a contributor to various media outlets, especially on radio and television, but also in magazines and newspapers, as well as a singer of couplets.
The news of his death has been confirmed in a post on the social network X (Twitter) by his friend and also journalist Albert Castillón. “A few hours ago, a genius of the radio and copla, my friend Hilario López Millán, died. Extreme dehydration ended with one of the greats of communication. My condolences to her husband Alberto. She will rest with her mother and her friend Rocío Jurado. DEP”, Castillón has written. Alberto was a partner of López Millán for 46 years and her husband for 17 years.
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López Millán was one of the pioneers of heart television programs thanks to La Palmera, the space directed by Xavier Gassió that aired on TVE in 1991, and he collaborated with presenters such as María Teresa Campos on Día a día, by Ana Rosa Quintana in Sabor a ti and Carolina Ferre in Tela marinera, on Channel 9. He was also awarded an Antena de Oro and took part in multiple radio programs, such as Protagonistas, La lengua viperina, Aquí te espero y El rincón de la gloria. But if he was known for something, it was his great friendship with the singer Rocío Jurado. In fact, his last television appearance was last year to support Rocío Carrasco ―daughter of the late artist― during the broadcast of the documentary series Rocío, tell the truth to stay alive. He did it in one of the Save Me Diary programs. “Dew [Jurado] She was unique and great, every day I miss her more… She was tremendous, she had her three minutes of bad temper, which on this occasion she would take them out, “he commented then.
The chronicler was one of the television stars of the tabloids of the late 1990s and early 2000s, but he acknowledged in an interview with EL PAÍS in 2020 that returning to television was not among his priorities. “I don’t know, I’m not excited. You don’t vibrate like before, and I have to take care of Alberto. There also comes a time when you are the oldest and they don’t call you. Or I don’t conform. I have never been loud. I have counted things, but to hell I have not fought, nor have I stepped on the other, and now he takes that. Now I choose ”, he assured then.
She chose to share the time with her husband, Alberto, who has been in poor health for years. They met in a bar where she had met some friends, as she revealed in 2021 in an interview with Spanish. “Let’s say it was love at first sight,” the journalist would confess, who in that interview described his partner as a faithful companion, a good friend, a great conversationalist, affectionate and cultured: “I can’t ask for more from life.”
During the pandemic, when he was interviewed for EL PAÍS, López Millán acknowledged being “very afraid of death”, of leaving “without even having someone to shake your hand” and of deterioration. But he also demonstrated the great sense of humor that has always accompanied him: “I am very flirtatious, I have dyed myself since I was 24 years old, yes, what people think is a wig is my great hair. Now is not the time and I am not going to go into an operating room for the pleasure of what he is falling for, but, when this happens, if I get out alive, I will get a facelift ”. Castillón’s post announcing the tragic news has received numerous comments from Hilario López Millán’s followers, who have fondly remembered his appearances on television and his love for the copla.
The mayor of Hellín, Manuel Serena Fernández, has said goodbye to the communicator with a heartfelt tribute published on the Facebook of the City Council. “As a hellinero I cannot feel anything other than the deepest admiration for our dear countryman Hilario; who left the narrow streets of the old town of our old Hellín in search of the light and brightness of the city, of art, of the candlesticks and of communication”, the message begins, accompanied by a photo of Hilario López in the House Brother of the Royal Brotherhood of El Prendimiento de Hellín. “He left his city forever as a young man to never stop leaving, his voice came out of our Hellín to never stop naming him. His town and ours, whose name he always wanted to remember and which we heard him repeat with such pride in the national media. Anyone who believes that Hilario López Millán only has one street in Hellín is wrong, Hilario has a town in Hellín. Dear Hilario, I have to congratulate you on your life, full of professional and personal victories. You are an example of rebellion, of struggle and of overcoming customs and clichés, happily normalized today, but not in your time”.
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