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Carmen Borrego, essential character of the pink chronicle

Carmen Borrego (Málaga, 1966) has become one of those essential characters of the gossip column. There is not a week in which she is not talked about in any of the programs in which she collaborates. But her relationship with television and fame has not always been the same.

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The most unknown of the fields

Until a certain moment, she was the most unknown of the Campos. So much so that much of the public thought that María Teresa only had one daughter: Terelu Campos.

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Why is the last name Borrego?

It may also have contributed to this that Carmen has kept that of her father, the journalist José María Borrego Doblas, as her first surname, while her sister Terelu has opted for that of her mother, the veteran presenter María Teresa Campos.

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One of the hardest episodes of his life

One of the hardest moments in Carmen Borrego’s life was in her adolescence, when her father, who became director of Radio Nacional de España in Marbella, decided to take his own life on July 25, 1984. Carmen was 17 years old and She was very close to him, so she was absolutely traumatized, as she herself has confessed in different interviews.

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Carmen Borrego took a long time to forgive her father

For a long time, the subject was taboo for both Carmen and her sister Terelu, but later they dared to talk about it in the media: “I didn’t understand how my father could have done that to my sister and me,” said Carmen in an occasion in ‘Save me’. “In the end you accept it and see that a person who does that is because he is not well.”

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Carmen Borrego and Terelu Campos have a brother on their father’s side

Until 2020, the public was unaware that Carmen Borrego and Terelu Campos have a half brother on their father’s side, the result of a relationship prior to María Teresa’s. This half brother lives in Malaga and prefers to remain anonymous.

Photo: Mediaset

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The professional beginnings of Carmen Borrego

Professionally, Carmen Borrego began her career on the radio, specifically on SER, as a producer. Although she soon made the leap to television, where she spent many years behind the cameras, both in production and directing.

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behind the scenes

He worked on the news on Canal+, on ‘Día a Día’ and ‘Cada día’ (programs presented by his mother, María Teresa Campos) or on programs on regional channels such as ‘Cerca de ti’ or ‘A tu vera’.

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his way to fame

But as of 2016, he decides to leave behind the ‘anonymity’ that being behind the cameras reported him to become a public figure due to his participation in the program ‘Las Campos’.

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Protagonist of ‘Las Campos’

‘Las Campos’ was a reality docu (as they themselves called it) in which María Teresa Campos and her two daughters, Terelu Campos and Carmen Borrego, documented some of the most intimate chapters of their lives in the style of the famous family reality show Kardashian. Hence for a time they were known as the Camposhian.

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absolute spontaneity

In it we saw them, for example, travel to New York or Miami, where they showed themselves with absolute spontaneity, giving away fun and iconic moments. But also talking about his most intimate secrets.

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The double chin operation

Carmen confessed in this program that she was self-conscious about a part of her body: the double chin, so she underwent a cervical lift, in addition to other aesthetic treatments to improve her image.

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jump to stardom

As a result of that, the popularity of Carmen Borrego grew like foam and she became, in her own right, the visible face of the Campos saga. She is the protagonist of covers and her own plots.

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television collaborator

She also began to acquire more prominence in front of the cameras thanks to her television collaborations as a talk show host in programs such as ‘Survivors’, ‘Sálvame’, ‘Sálvame Deluxe’, ‘Come to dinner with me’ or ‘Viva la vida’.

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It has even appeared in the series ‘Veneno’

It has even appeared in the series directed by Los Javis ‘Veneno’, based on the life of Cristina Ortiz. In it, Carmen Borrego appears precisely playing a collaborator of a television program. A role that came like a glove.

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The interest in the life of Carmen Borrego

Her life is often the central theme in the different programs in which she collaborates, which makes her the center of attention and on more than one occasion has caused her more than one dislike. Especially because of the back and forth that affect her sister, Terelu, and her daughter, Alejandra Rubio.

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family disputes

And it is that it is in the public domain that Carmen Borrego has maintained with her sister and niece different tug-of-wars. Things that happen even in the best families… But almost always the waters return to their course.

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his love life

Sentimentally, she was married to the sound technician Francisco Almoguera Haro, whom she met on Radiocadena Spain. They were married in 1989 in a religious ceremony but divorced seven years later, followed by a legal fight over custody of their children.

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Carmen Borrego has two children.

The couple had two children together: José María (1990) and Carmen (1993), of whom Carmen Borrego has always been very proud publicly, despite the fact that her children have preferred to stay away from the public spotlight, unlike her cousin Alexandra Rubio.

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other loves

From 1997 to 2009, she shared her life with Rafael García, producer of the Telecinco program ‘Día a Día’ (the same one that her mother presented and she directed). Rafael was by her side in one of the most difficult moments of her life, when she was fighting for the custody of her children and when she suffered different health problems such as a stroke (at the age of 34) and uterine cancer, which fortunately were detected in a initial state in 2001.

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the drama of cancer

Unfortunately, cancer has been very present in the life of Carmen Borrego, because in addition to her, her mother and sister Terelu have also suffered from it, which has caused her great suffering.

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José Carlos Bernal, the second husband of Carmen Borrego

Some time after her relationship with Rafael García ended, Carmen Borrego fell in love again. During her time at Canal Sur, she met businessman José Carlos Bernal Zamorano, whom she married in a civil ceremony in July 2014.

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A well-matched marriage

“I can say without a doubt that the man who has truly loved me is called José Carlos. He makes me happy every day”, she said about her second husband in 2020 in an exclusive interview for Semana magazine.

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live in front of the public

Like that of any neighbor’s son, Carmen Borrego’s life has had more or less happy moments. For a time she remained anonymous but later she decided to move to the front line and share part of her intimacy with the audience (despite the fact that she sometimes causes more than one headache…).

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