Chelo García Cortes (72 years old) and Isabel Pantoja (67 years old) had a friendship of more than three decades but then they did not speak for more than seven years until they met again in ‘Survivors’, when both competed in the same edition. Since then they went through phases in their relationship and they supported each other but it seems that After the end of the program everything went cold again. In fact, the journalist has just said that she has realized that what she felt was not bidirectional.
“Have been seven years without seeing each other. At first it was a cold meeting, but day by day I have been recovering that friend who has been with me for 30 years, almost since I started singing. I have left all the moments behind and it has been my support,” said the tonadillera. Some words that were just that and that seem to have been carried away by the wind. And the fact is that Chelo has not been able to hide his disappointment with Isabel, in addition to count in ‘No way we were Shh’ What was the amount she left her friend to get out of the dungeon.
“I provided her with reports but Isabel Pantoja did not ask me directly for money. She did not ask me for money either, It was María Navarro. She asked me for it and returned it to me before a notary.“Chelo began by saying, highly criticized by her colleagues because even though the money was going directly to get the singer out of jail, she did not say that Kiko Rivera’s mother had asked her to do it, but rather her other friend on her behalf. ” It seems to me that they were between 12 and 18,000 euros,” the communicator explained.
“How well you drove!” said María Patiño, who then responded to herself with “well, of course we were paid very well.” It was then that García Cortés explained the reason why Isabel returned the money to him before a notary. “She gave them to me with the first concert she did in Madrid and I left them for María. If Agustín Pantoja asks me for them, I won’t leave them to him. Why did it have to be at a notary’s office? Because I had given it to them in A and they had to give it back to me in A and it was so that I wouldn’t sleep in the cell.“, he said. “I left it to him because he was a person I loved very much,” he added.
The economic problems of Chelo García Cortés
Although Chelo has not spoken again about how much his financial debt to the Treasury amounts to, Lecturas had access to that information in 2019: more than 1.4 million euros five years ago. A figure that strangled the collaborator in such a way because she had garnished up to 70% of her salary.
The journalist and his wife then asked their closest circle for help and even Marta went to the media to talk about the subject in some programs and thus earn some zeros in the bank and ensure that it did not make them lose the house they had in Castelldefels. . Regarding her financial problems, Chelo has acknowledged in the Quickie channel program that she never asked the ‘Marinero de luzes’ interpreter for a single euro.
When Chelo realized that Isabel was not such a friend
“I never asked him for it either. I knew I had problems but then we didn’t talk to each other. Right now I’m paying for my things and that’s it. I don’t know if he would let me, but I wouldn’t ask him either. “I didn’t pick up the phone at any time,” Chelo insisted, embarrassed because her colleagues were trying to get her to recognize and say that she was aware that despite the level of friendship they had, Isabel would not have let her.I have been a better friend to Isabel than she has been to me because I have defended the indefensible for her for a long time.I have helped her in everything I could and I think that she did not behave with me when she had to. It’s not an economic question, it’s asking me ‘how are you or how is your mother’?. All of this made me realize that I was more of a friend to her than she was to me. And that’s it, “she expressed sadly.
