“I asked my children not to Google me”

Happily in love with Helene Condis (37 years old) for four years, Juanma Castano (48 years old) tries to keep his personal life strictly private, although he often cannot prevent details about his life outside of his workplace from being leaked.

This … week, the sports journalist made an exception and spoke about his family in the show ‘Se fait que peut’, Gemma Nierga, Alba Carrillo and himself. In conversation with his colleagues, the communicator reflects on the use of the telephone and social networks among young people. And he spoke from his own experience, since he has two children, aged 14 and 17.

Castaño explained that he gave his children their first cell phone after his divorce from Noélia Diegoin 2019. “It’s the ideal excuse to give them a phone, to be in direct contact with them,” he began by saying. “I put him in a sneaker box and inside he dug and there was the phone. I turned that moment into a special moment and I probably shouldn’t have done it that way,” he admitted. Despite everything, Castaño has always tried to educate his children to use cell phones and social networks responsibly.

Paternal example

Something that is not always easy because he has a professional obligation to be practically always connected to the phone, which he does not consider to be the best example for his children. “In my case, I’m waiting for a call for work, his thing will be because he is aware of his subject, his world and his world is as important as work for us,” he said. “What I see is that adults have a lot of intervention in the child’s life. It starts with cell phones, we have to put in place some control, but in the rest of the areas, we have to let them use it,” he reflected.

But without a doubt, one of the things he insisted on most was that his children avoid looking up their father’s name on the Internet. “I told them not to search for Juanma Castaño on their cell phones, on Google, because they would read things that would disturb them and hurt them. I think they listened to me. I want them to suffer as little as possible. The father’s mistakes are obvious to them. Once they told me not to criticize the Spanish team, because they had lost a match, because they were going to criticize me. What they say about their father is revealed,” he confessed.