It will be this Thursday, March 16. This is how the presenter Roberto Leal dropped it on Wednesday afternoon at the end of the last program of ‘Pasapalabra’. This Thursday, starting at 10:45 p.m., the competition between Orestes Barbero and Rafa Castaño will come to an end in the Antena 3 contests and the winner will win the coveted jackpot of ‘El rosco’, which already exceeds 2,250. 000 euros and that it is the largest in the history of the contest. The afternoon is expected to be exciting.
The expectation is maximum and that is also noticeable in the high audience ratings that the program is reaping. Last Tuesday, without going any further, it scored a spectacular 27.1% ‘share’ and brought together 3.1 million viewers around the television. Some data almost impossible to see on current television and that, surely, this Wednesday’s edition and Thursday’s will once again raise the highest.
With a degree in Hispanic Philology and born in Burgos 25 years ago, Orestes is the first contestant who has remained in space for 300 programs. He debuted in 2016, when the contest was in the hands of Telecinco. Already in 2019, the contestant accumulated 119 programs and 68,400 euros. In this way, he played the jackpot during many duels against another well-known protagonist, Jero García, which added up to a total of 75 confrontations.
Tomorrow…. The biggest jackpot in the history of @pass word.
➡️ At 20:00, special “Orestes and Rafa”: the great duel.
➡️ At 22:45… The outcome.
— Roberto Leal (@RobertoLealG) March 15, 2023
On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of ‘Pasapalabra’, the man from Burgos, who has participated in other contests such as ‘El tirón’ on Telecinco or ‘El cazador’ on TVE, returned to try to win 100,000 euros and the chance to compete again on the program again. It was then that he competed against Rafa Castaño for the first time, with whom he has starred in duels for almost 200 programs.
Rafa Castaño is 32 years old, from Seville and has a degree in Journalism. In the Andalusian capital he owns a bookstore that he opened just over five years ago thanks to the money that his television adventures have brought him. His first step in TV contests was taken thirteen years ago, in the program ‘Guess who is who’, on Canal Sur. The first time that Rafa Castaño participated in ‘Pasapalabra’ was in 2015. Later, he rejoined the space in 2017 and, finally, he tried his luck in 2019, before this last time, in which he has the opportunity real to take the pot.