Every country has its ‘Queen of the mornings’a title that is passed around by the most powerful ladies on television and that, until recently, was held by Ana Rosa Quintana, the one who has most resembled the figure of Oprah Winfrey in Spain, although with many nuances.

Not everyone knows that he was a New York correspondent for Cadena COPE in the eighties. In those times She was married to Alfonso Rojocurrent director of Periodista Digital.

He appeared on several news programs from different stations and the big leap to television came in the nineties, on Telecinco, with Verdicta space in which trials were simulated.

On Antena 3 he led Extra Pinka magazine show that he presented with Rosa Villacastín. Everything very fine. Nothing to do with the “semen of strength” that Ortega Cano would refer to in his program years later. That The set soon became too small and they put her alone in the afternoons. with flavor of you. Some collaborators passed by there and ended up flying alone years later: Antonio Hidalgo, Jaime Cantizano…

In the 2000s he tried his hand at writing and, as it seems that he was not very good at it, he published a book that was said to have been written by his brother-in-law, full of plagiarism. The publisher withdrew it after the controversy broke out, doing a favor to millions of potential readers. TV presenters and literature is a combination that does not always translate into quality. There is evidence of this.

In recent months, the Madrid presenter has been highly criticized for a comment she made more than twenty years ago, when in flavor of you They addressed the issue of the sexual assault of the mayor of Ponferrada, Ismael Álvarez, to Nevenka Fernández. “A girl who has a degree, who has a master’s degree, who is a councilor of the Treasury, who has cultural solvency… First, how do you allow yourself to be harassed? And then, how does it take so long to report?” This comment, unthinkable now, went unnoticed, but director Icíar Bollaín has rescued it for her latest film. Cinema can also be historical memory.

The big bombshell of the time came in 2004, when Telecinco signed her to occupy the space that, until then, belonged to María Teresa Campos. The one from Malaga, in turn, moved to Antena 3. That battle was won by Ana Rosa and her new format for the mornings, Ana Rosa’s program. It makes a little cringe, but that’s nothing compared to what came immediately after, when the girl took out also the magazine A.R. in which she was always on the cover. It is not ruled out that he may have the living room of one of his houses covered with his face.

Crowned ‘Queen of the Mornings’, she remained invincible for years. Her personal life rarely appeared in the magazines, although it was the talk of the whole world when it was learned that she was expecting twins with her second husband… at 48 years old. Believe me it was controversial then. No one could imagine that twenty years later Ana García Obregón would ‘give birth’ to her granddaughter.

The mornings gave him his space for political gatherings, just as Campos had. In principle, Quintana’s role was that of moderator of the table, but something clicked in her production company when Pedro Sánchez presented a motion of censure to Mariano Rajoy and Spain took an ideological turn. We don’t know if she changed or simply decided to stop keeping quiet about what she thought, but she became the worst nightmare of the PSOE- Podemos coalition government.

AR knew how to win over half of the Spaniards in this way, but the bad thing about taking sides in such a polarized country is that the other half can no longer support you. nor see. His production company was forced to deny some hoax during the pandemic and it came to light that, in the midst of the housing crisis in Spain, the presenter manages more than forty tourist apartments in Madrid and Barcelona. She was the ‘Queen of the Mornings’, not the ‘People’s Princess’, friends.

In the end, enmities began to appear even on Telecinco, where Jorge Javier Vázquez, who became known with her, stopped cutting himself off when talking about a woman from Usera, a neighborhood that she described as “worker and worker, before it was Chinatown.

For a few months he was missing due to cancer, but he returned with the same strength and the same hatred accumulated by the still President of the Government. This year he said ‘this far’ – or they told him -, he took off the crown of the mornings and moved on to the afternoons with AfternoonARwhere he continues to reserve a few minutes of ‘anti-sanchista’ editorial.

She is no longer the queen of the afternoons, but she is still our Oprah Winfrey… although a ‘Trumpist’.