Mercedes Milá

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Mercedes Milá
Television Presenter, Journalist
Years activeEarly 1970s–present

María Mercedes Milá Mencos (born 4 April 1951) is a Spanish

Big Brother
.

Biography

Mercedes Milá was born in

Sevilla.[3] Shortly afterwards she began working in the newsrooms of Spanish public broadcaster Televisión Española. She joined the sports division, where she remained between 1974 and 1978, when she was selected to co-host, along with Isabel Tenaille, the talk show Dos por Dos ("Two by Two"). After the show was cancelled, Milá returned to radio. She worked with Iñaki Gabilondo in Cadena SER.[4]

Milá's TV comeback came in 1982 with the program Buenas Noches ("Goodnight"), which became one of the hits of the season and lasted until 1984. Her personal style and directness with her guests helped her turn into one of the most popular Spanish TV personalities of the 1980s. After a brief stint with the

Antena 3
in the early nineties, where she stayed until moving to private broadcaster Telecinco in 2000.

In 2000 she found renewed success as the host of the Spanish franchise of hit reality show

Gran Hermano, earning poor critical reviews but massive ratings.[5] As of 2017, Milá has hosted fifteen of the seventeen regular seasons of the show (all except for season 3 in 2002 which was hosted by Pepe Navarro,[6] and season 17 in 2016 which was hosted by Jorge Javier Vázquez)[7] and two All Stars seasons.[8]

In 2016 she hosted a TV program named Convénzeme, con Z de Zweig which motivates people to read.[9][10]

In 2012 she published a book based on the blog she writes in Telecinco named Lo que me sale del bolo.[11]

In February 2019 she will host the TV program Scott y Mila in

Movistar+.[12]

Shows

Televisión Española

TV3

  • Dilluns, dilluns (1988)

Antena 3

  • Queremos saber (1992–1993)
  • Más que palabras (1995)
  • Sin límites (1998)
  • Queremos saber más (2002)

Telecinco

  • Gran Hermano
    (2000–2015) (excluding Gran Hermano 3 and the VIP seasons)
  • Diario de... (2004–2011)
  • La tribu (2009) with Javier Sardá

Cuatro

  • Diario de... (2011–)
  • El comecocos (2011) as a judge

References

  1. Hearst Magazines International
    . 24 April 2017. Retrieved 10 February 2019.
  2. ^ "Mercedes Milá y el periodismo en 1989". Canal Sur (in Spanish). 2018. Retrieved 10 February 2019.
  3. ^ "Mercedes Milá y Sevilla". Canal Sur (in Spanish). 2018. Retrieved 10 February 2019.
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  5. ^ "GH 18: Las redes piden el regreso de Mercedes Milá a Gran Hermano". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). 26 September 2017. Retrieved 10 February 2019.
  6. Prisa
    . 24 March 2002. Retrieved 10 February 2019.
  7. Hearst Magazines International
    . 30 June 2016. Retrieved 10 February 2019.
  8. ^ "Mercedes Milá se despide oficialmente de 'Gran Hermano 17'". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). 9 September 2016. Retrieved 10 February 2019.
  9. ^ "'Convénzeme', programa literario presentado por Mercedes Milá". Telecinco (in Spanish). Mediaset España. BeMad TV. 8 June 2016. Archived from the original on 9 June 2016. Retrieved 10 February 2019.
  10. ^ Herruzo, Ignacio (November 2016). "Mercedes Milá estrena 'Convénzeme', un programa de libros sin escritores ni críticos: "Por fin nos hacen caso a los lectores"". Fotogramas (in Spanish). Hearst España. Archived from the original on 11 November 2016. Retrieved 10 February 2019.
  11. ^ "Mercedes Milá publica un libro basado en su blog 'Lo que me sale del bolo'". El Economista (in Spanish). Editorial Ecoprensa, S.A. 26 February 2013. Retrieved 10 February 2019.
  12. El Periódico
    (in Spanish). Grupo Zeta. 12 September 2018. Retrieved 27 February 2019.

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