2023-09-05 15:01:27
Tuesday, September 5, 2023, 07:52 | Updated 3:01 p.m.
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The mortal remains of María Teresa Campos already rest in the La Paz funeral home, in Madrid, where family and friends flock to say their last goodbye to what was the first “queen of mornings” on television. The journalist she died this morning, after five, at the Jiménez Díaz Foundation in Madrid, where she had been admitted since last Sunday with a “frame of acute respiratory failure.” In her last hours her state of health worsened and already yesterday the circle closest to her communicator went to the hospital to say goodbye to her while she was alive.
The daughters of María Teresa -Terelu and Carmen Borrego- and her granddaughter, Alejandra Rubio, who has acted as spokesperson for the family, have arrived at the funeral home: «It is a difficult moment. The only thing I can say is that she was fantastic and the best grandmother in the world ». She assures that both she and the rest of her family members were able to say goodbye to María Teresa and accompany her in her last moments: “We were all there to cover her and take care of her.”
Despite how expected the news was -María Teresa suffered severe deterioration-, the journalist’s friends and family could not hide their tears on their arrival at the funeral home. Especially dejected were her daughters Terelu Campos and Carmen Borrego. Along with them, other well-known faces have arrived, such as Pedro Piqueras, Ana Rosa Quintana or other television colleagues.
Also the President of the Government who has highlighted the communicator’s ability to “break glass ceilings and schemes.” Pedro Sánchez has spoken to the media about María Teresa Campos with love and respect: «I had to come to fire one of the greats. We had a very recurring communication, she always gave me her opinion a lot. She was an endearing woman and a reference that transcends the world of communication ».
Next to the coffin of the deceased journalist is the image of María Teresa Campos located in the Telecinco hall of fame. This has been requested by the two daughters of the ‘queen of mornings’, collaborators of the chain.
The popular television presenter, who has been away from public life for some time, has not overcome the “acute respiratory failure picture” with which she was admitted to the Fundación Jiménez Díaz hospital in Madrid on Sunday. At the request of her daughters, Carmen Borrego and Terelu Campos, the center issued a brief statement in which it reported that “her current prognosis for her is reserved within gravity.” 24 hours later, on Monday afternoon, her situation worsened to “very serious.” Some sources claimed that La Campos, as she was known, had suffered a fall at her house in the last week.
It has never been known what disease she suffered from, but it was known that she had problems fending for herself and that she did not like to be seen in that state. There was talk of “cognitive impairment.” And in fact, although at the beginning of her discharge, María Teresa wanted to return to television to present a new television format on Mediaset -although she never received a response from the directors-, in recent times she no longer saw herself with forces.
A few weeks ago, Terelu told the magazine ‘Lecturas’ that they were living in hard times: “I can’t bear to see my mother suffer.” At the same time, she assured that she was not in the hands of her family to make her feel better. “She is not even in the hands of medicine to provide her well-being.” As she insisted, her mother’s condition “not only takes away the patient, but also those who are next to her.” In fact, earlier this year it became known that the matriarch needed help to perform basic tasks.
Above, in ‘Pasa la vida’, on La 1. Below, in ‘Every day’, in 2005, together with the actor Fran Reyes, from ‘Pasión de gavilanes’, and in ‘La mirada crítica’, on Telecinco, in 2008 .
His other daughter, Carmen Borrego, warned a few days ago that she was going through a “delicate” moment and that her sister’s birthday was going to be something intimate. “Right now we don’t have much to celebrate, but hey, we’re going to be together, which is the important thing and have a quiet dinner, nothing more,” she told the media.
His last appearances
Icon of heart programs, he received the Gold Medal for Merit at Work in 2017, when he was facing the end of his journalistic career. María Teresa never came to retire of her own free will, it was her body that forced her to put on the brakes. First it was in 2019, two years after suffering a cerebral ischemia, when she stopped taking the reins of ‘What a happy time!’ on Telecinco, which she considered her house. A year before, she stopped broadcasting ‘Las Campos’, a docu-reality with her daughters, the last program she hosted before one last adventure in 2021 that did not have the support of the audience. La Campos then interviewed the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz-Ayuso, on board a bus that traveled through the streets of the capital. The space, ‘La Campos móvil’, only issued said installment due to the little success it had.
In addition, in the middle of the pandemic, he promoted a YouTube channel in which he chatted with current personalities. ‘Tangled by María Teresa Campos’ It featured such diverse figures as Santiago Segura, Anabel Pantoja, Raphael or Ágata Ruiz de la Prada. In her last video, she revealed the secret of the ‘Las Campos cake’ with her daughter Carmen and the yoga professional Meli Camacho. These casual interviews perfectly reflect the spirit of María Teresa, without ties of any kind or mincing words about her. She herself. The Fields.
In her last years she also spent as a guest on various programs. Many from Telecinco, like ‘Sálvame’, ‘Homigas blancas’ or ‘Viva la vida’, but others as different and hooligans as ‘The resistance’David Broncano’s latenight on Movistar+.
Cope, TVE, RNE, Antena 3, Telecinco…
María Teresa Campos has been one of the great communicators of this country. She was born in 1941 in Tetouan, capital of the protectorate that Spain maintained in northern Morocco until 1956, although when she was one year old her family moved to Malaga, where she was well known. Her maternal grandfather was a large merchant in the Andalusian city and her father ran a pharmaceutical laboratory.
His first steps in communication were taken after taking a degree in Philosophy and Letters at the university. She participated in a Radio Juventud contest presented by her brother Paco de ella and the station ended up hiring her. In 1968 she made the leap to Cope. By then, she had already married the journalist José María Borrego, with whom she had her two daughters. In the 70s she signed up for Radio Nacional de España and also deals with information and current affairs.
The decade of the 80s put her even more in orbit and she made the leap to Madrid. Just in time, she separates from her husband, who would commit suicide three years later, a tragedy that has haunted her ever since. The 90s were the golden age for her. From 1996 to 2004 she became the ‘queen of mornings’ on television. She was the first woman to hold this ‘title’ when she made the leap from TVE to Mediaset. Aznar had just arrived in Moncloa and La Campos and her team had a political gathering before lunch, a risk that she now devastates, but that nobody believed would work then. However, her left hand and a complete cast of flashy collaborators, such as César Vidal or María Antonia Iglesias, made him shine. Her brilliant career was rewarded with the Gold Medal for Merit at Work, awarded under the Government of Mariano Rajoy in 2017.
Above, María Teresa, together with her daughters Carmen Borrego and Terelu Campos. Below, in a cameo in ‘Aída’ and in a file image.
Rivalry with Ana Rosa
His million-dollar contracts were also in the news on more than one occasion. And from her departure from Antena 3 to Telecinco a rivalry arose with another great communicator, Ana Rosa Quintana, whom the first channel signed to compete with her. Later, they would meet on Paolo Vasile’s channel. Precisely, from the hand of the Italian he had his great triumph, ‘Día a día’, which lasted on the grid for a decade.
In 2008, Campos and Quintana faced each other in a face-to-face that was a ratings success and where the second directly asked the first what was wrong with her: “Do you like me?” The Andalusian’s response was as she has always been, direct: “You have hit me with some bandages.”
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