As every year, open television channels are finalizing their lineup for the New Year’s Eve bells that will welcome 2026. After La 1 made a controversial popular request on social media to find presenters, and Atresmedia announced that Cristina Pedroche and Alberto Chicote will lead this year’s celebration on all the group’s channels (Antena 3 and La Sexta), now it is Mediaset that takes a step with its selection of presenters in the grapes of Telecinco and Cuatro: the duo will be Sandra Barneda and Xuso Jones.
Barneda, who already presented the gala with which he opened 2020, receives the order in the year in which The island of temptations It became a global viral phenomenon thanks to Montoya, as well as one of the few audience lifelines for a Telecinco in crisis. They also enjoy the attraction of the ninth season premiere of reality show of couples, which became leader this Monday.
The 50-year-old Catalan presenter joins a very famous face among younger audiences, that of Xuso Jones, a 36-year-old presenter from Murcia. He knows it, he doesn’t know it on Mediaset and very present on social media thanks to his viral jokes (he became famous for a video in which he ordered food while singing at McDonald’s) and podcast Not much is said. TOFurthermore, he participated in the winner of the Your face looks familiar to me and competitor of Celebrity MasterChef. He also tried, without luck, to go to Eurovision.
Mediaset is, in any case, the weakest rival in the competition for the bells. In 2024, those presented by presenter Ion Aramendi and actress Blanco Romero de Lanzarote reached just 4.8% to share and 753 thousand viewers on average on Telecinco, which added 1.5% share on Cuatro and another 234 thousand viewers. All, light years away, from La 1, which led in broadcasting from Puerta del Sol with 31.2% screen share and 4.8 million viewers on average, and 28.1% and 4.3 million from Antena 3. There is still no confirmed location for Mediaset.
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