In Spain at the end of 2025 there are many people whose dream is to enter the Big Brother. In the previous sentence there is no opinion, no hint of moral superiority nor a milligram of sarcasm. It’s pure and simple information, as we saw last night, when Jorge Javier Vázquez – we’ll talk about him later, he deserves at least a paragraph – inaugurated the house, which this year, with the program celebrating 20 editions, is bigger than ever, with another location – “Thank you, Tres Cantos” – and a kind of festival, an amusement park where Nagore Robles was accompanied by characters like Payasin – hello, Carmen Borrego – and other humans beings of interest.
In Big Brother You’re welcome if in the presentation videos you show that in your vocabulary you use verbs such as flow, live and enjoy. If you define yourself as an energetic, explosive, dramatic person, if there is something wrong, it could be the intensity, if there is any objection to that detail.
Big Brother and Big Brotherbut also Jorge’s diary. If the Jurado was “hard stone from Chipiona” according to Lola Flores, Vázquez is marble from Badalona. Start the program with a tour of the houseCome on, show the house you’ve always had, and while showing the rooms, you flirt with Super, the camera and even the furniture wherever you go. Here is the tropical room, here is the 24-hour gym with the heat it exudes, and here is the kitchen with you and me.
And he immediately starts doing what he does best, listening to the other, letting him enjoy his minutes of fame – “All of Spain is waiting for you, Noa,” he says to one of the contestants – and then asking him a question that will make him feel at home. Let’s go with another good example.
Two friends from Jerez enter, Rocío and Desiré. They are immediately separated and a drama begins that borders on catastrophe. They begin to cry with the kind of cry that turns into a scream, as if they were Siamese twins whose separation means death. “Don’t cry, your ink will disappear,” they shout at each other, as if they were angry instead of sad. The thing is hypnotic, live Jerez de la Frontera in its entirety.
The presenter gets in the car with Rocío, the one who stays outside, who grabs his hand with her long nails as if they were Siamese twins, and tells him about his dramas and his life while he makes that face he has worked on for decades that seems to have nothing to do with it and is about everything. He invites her to say goodbye to her friend from the set.
“Desi, how are you?” he says. “Oh shit,” Desiré responds. “Eat something, auntie, you have to cheer yourself up, make some pasta or something, drink some water”, orders Rocío or maybe that’s the tone with which these two ladies address each other. The story ends with a happy ending or so it seems, as the two finally participate in the contest, albeit in different rooms. So many tears and so much smudged mascara from that.
Let’s now go with a nice compilation of who will end up joining these women from the province of Cádiz. There are soldiers who say phrases like “where I put my eye, I put the bullet”. Damn Diego. He sports plucked eyebrows and says he dances bachata. He shows us rehearsing with a mop and enters the house with a shirt full of teddy bear drawings.
His brother Marcos – “I’m a Scorpio and self-employed” – is also dying to get into the Três Cantos house but they don’t speak to each other, so after some censorship and passive-aggressive comments, Diego stays in the house and Marcos, a Scorpio, self-employed and with his eyebrows also shaved like his brother, decides to stay as a collaborator on the program. You couldn’t know.
We have a creature called Aquilino, who claims that Beyoncé winked at him from the stage, who is a lover of rhinestones and claims that he wants to be “the Venus of GH”. He prefers to be called ‘Quili’. We have Aroa, the “Édith Piaf of Málaga”, who became a mother at 15 and claims to have 35 thousand personalities; the one who is an entrepreneur, a curvy model and who says she speaks for herself. Another boy who wants to join to be “GH’s first Soriano”. Another who says she identifies with Angelina Jolie “because she is a woman with a lot of presence”. “I work a lot on self-love,” he adds. Almudena, from Tomelloso, says that she is very fair and that is why if you do this you pay. She says really nice things, like how she tends to get along better with boys because “they are more noble.” Her boyfriend abandoned her when he found out she was participating in the pageant, so we feel like he’s not very noble. And so on, for countless people who say they are “shit”, “limited edition” and demanding of themselves and others.
Thank you, Three Corners. For letting these intense people out of the loop for a while. It’s not information, it’s opinion.