Tania Llasera, Nerea Garmendia and Ana Goitia will replace Valeria Ros in the second season of ‘Akelarre’

2023-10-16 16:35:27

The ETB2 program ‘Akelarre’ will premiere its second season on October 20 and will do so with important changes. The most surprising, that of its presenter. Valeria Ros will not continue to lead the talk show, one of the big bets of the Basque public channel. The communicator from Getxo, who rose to fame for her participation in ‘Zapando’ on La Sexta, will be replaced by three presenters and not one. EITB has confirmed this Monday that the essence of the space, humorous and with a hooligan touch, will continue with the help of Tania Llasera, Nerea Garmendia and Ana Goitia.

Tania Llasera, Nerea Garmendia and Ana Goitia. EITB

Garmendia and Goitia are already well known to the audience of ‘Akelarre’, since they had participated as collaborators of Valeria Ros. Along with them will be the Getxo journalist Tania Llasera, with a long career in television and who has signed her first contract with EITB.

‘Akelarre’ will be broadcast on Fridays, after the teleberri, starting at 10:30 p.m. Ana, Nerea and Tania will speak openly about what it means to be a woman in Euskadi and will provide large doses of audacity that will make more than one person blush. After last year’s controversy over the irony with which some elements of Basque culture are treated, EITB assures that there will be no “taboos or censorship.”

The “irreverence, hooliganism and Basque culture”, which are its hallmarks, raised some eyebrows. One of the strengths of this format is improvisation, since the presenter – formerly Valeria Ros – does not know who she is going to interview, which can lead to somewhat disconcerting moments.

The format was not to everyone’s liking. In March of this year, EH Bildu even claimed that it was being ridiculed from “a Spanish perspective” and the controversy even reached the Basque Parliament at the request of the nationalist group, which considered that “thousands of viewers could be offended by the approach.” of the program. The director of EITB, Adoni Aldekoa, had no qualms in defending the essence of the program and recalled that ‘Akelarre’ “is a comedy program that as such must be understood and is conceived from love and respect for the elements of reference and belonging to Basque society. It aims to put these values ​​in the maximum possible exponent so that they are seen and followed by new audiences.

Some of the moments that circulated then on social networks were some such as the interview with the writer Unai Elorriaga, who in 2002 won the National Narrative Award. «You write books, right? “And you won a literature prize, right?” the Biscayan communicator said. Another interview that was also questioned was that of the pelota player Juan Martínez de Irujo, since Ros told him that txapela seemed “anti-morbid” to him.

first guests

A few months after the controversy and the first season ended, the truth is that EITB and Valeria Ros have parted ways. In the statement released this Monday, the Basque public channel does not make any reference to the reason for the non-continuity of the woman from Getxo at the head of the program. They do confirm that her replacements Nerea, Ana and Tania will not be alone. Pirata and Juan Di Lago will continue as the Akelarre Band, providing music and sparks of humor. In the renewed ‘Akelarre’ each of her presenters will bring a guest character to present to her two companions and the audience. In the usual line of the program, the guests will be people from Basque culture and society and people from outside Euskadi who are very loved by the ETB audience.

In the first program of the second season, Ana Goitia will be brought on to IZARO, who will talk about the journey she lived from anonymity to the peak of fame and the subsequent descent into hell, from which she now returns with the new album cerodenero, which will perform on stage in January. Nerea Garmendia will chat with a professional colleague, Jordi Sánchez. The famous Recio from ‘La que se cerca’ will present the film Alimañas that she has written, directed and stars in. A conversation that will be joined by her great friend, and friend of ‘Akelarre’, the incombustible Sílvia Abril. They will end on a high because Tania Llasera will present Lola Dacosta, a well-known sex coach who will come with a suitcase full of adult toys.

Music and humor will also be part of the ingredients of the show, which will feature Basque singers and groups. The presenters will also talk humorously about their lives, review the latest viral videos on social networks, try to conduct a consultation in which they will answer sentimental, health, neurotic questions… and will go out into the streets to meet face to face with the public.