If there is anyone who could act as interim presenter in the absence of Pablo Motos, it would undoubtedly be Miguel Ángel Revilla (81 years old). With this Tuesday’s visit there will be 29 times that he has attended the program. He rivals Santiago Segura, whom he equals in public appearances on that set. The trust is such that, for his last birthday, He invited himself to the interview space to celebrate that important date. Another piece of evidence is that there are many citizens who ask the former president of Cantabria and current deputy in the Cantabrian parliament on the street if he charges to go. In tonight’s visit he talks, as usual, about current politics: the results of the European elections, the latest movements of Pedro Sánchez and the Amnesty Law.
He will also chat about whatever he wants because with Revilla nothing is ever agreed upon in advance. He allows himself to be the television star that he is. It is part of that attraction that generates so much affection among the public and that has made it one of the country’s beloved politicians.
The state of health of his wife Aurora
Very jealous of his privacy, Miguel Ángel Revilla has recalled that he met his wife when she started working as a secretary at the headquarters of the Regionalist Party of Cantabria, but It was Pablo Motos who gave the latest news on his state of health. And Aurora was diagnosed with colon cancer in 2022. “Here she is (among the audience), who is doing well after cancer and getting more beautiful every day. She is starting to go back in age every day because your birthday is ahead and she backwards,” said the presenter.
Aurora, wife of Miguel Ángel Revilla in ‘El Hormiguero’.
Regarding his daughters, Miguel Ángel has said that he has one in Dubai and another working since before he dedicated himself to politics “in a low-paid position working 8 hours a day.” And the other, who has just finished her degree in Psychology working for 1,400 euros 10 hours a day dealing with people with problems from morning to night. “This is my family,” he said in ‘El Hormiguero’. “It would never have occurred to me to involve my wife in business or in my phone calls,” he added about what it means to work with close people.
Revilla’s life
His house becomes an “amusement park” on the weekends. “We have had to create photo Saturdays here because Buses of people come to take photos with me, with the children and with the dogs… So we organized the weekend this way. ¡That I work every day of the weekman!”, he said in an interview on the program he has attended the most times. Although it is not the only space he has attended. He has accompanied Andreu Buenafuente on 14 occasions, he has sat next to Bertín Osborne four times and he has He had four other incidents with Jesús Calleja.
He is also the man with whom everyone wants to share a good time. “Do you know that every year I win that Mahou prize that I’m the guy that all Spaniards want to have a beer with“?” he asked Pablo Motos. Or to whom thousands of Spaniards offer their home to spend a few days. His closeness has earned him the love of the public without judging him for his political ideals.
Miguel Ángel Revilla and his love for Aurora
With a degree in Economics and Business Sciences and a diploma in Banking and Stock Market from the University of the Basque Country, Miguel Ángel Revilla loves his family above his work. With his first wife, María del Pilar Hoyo, things did not go as he expected. After nine years they separated from her, but he and her had two daughters, Pilar (43 years old) and Jana (36), whom he adores.
He remarried Aurora Díaz Abella, whom he met more than three decades ago at the headquarters of the Regionalist Party of Cantabria (PRC) that he founded in 1978. She worked as a secretary and from the first moment there was a connection between them. He conquered it in Salceda, municipality of Polaciones, his birthplace. Although the weather that day was not on their side, he remembers that he sang a ranchera that ended in a wedding. As a result of that love, the youngest of the clan was born, Lara (23 years old), who has studied Psychology in Donostia and is in charge of taking social networks to her father. Of course, she has completely ruled out immersing herself in politics.
The couple, who live in a 121 square meter apartment in the small municipality of Astillero, ten kilometers from Santander, have always been very discreet. Unlike her husband, Aurora Díaz He has barely given interviews on the small screen and has only accompanied him to strictly necessary political events. She has always been the pillar of her life, although in recent years she has not had it easy due to the colon cancer that she was diagnosed with in 2022.
Fortunately, he is progressing favorably, as the politician said after having 35 centimeters of his colon removed and receiving chemotherapy treatment. “I have a lot of confidence and security. It is terrible that I am 81 years old and I am going to turn in January and with all the pathologies I have had and she who has never had an illness and suddenly one day this appeared“, she explained in the television program ‘Traveling with Chester’. He assured, very excited, that she was carrying it with a fortitude to admire and that she was more beautiful than ever: “She is spectacular. She has cut her hair and now she is even prettier. I’m more in love with her than ever because I need her more now.”
It has been a terrible moment in their lives, but the biggest setback for Miguel Ángel Revilla was losing his brother Jaime in a traffic accident when he was 30 years old. “What happened with Jaime was terrible. We were more than brothers. He adored me, he had me mythologized. I remember him a lot, I can’t forget him. I remember that when they gave me the news I fainted,” he told Bertín Osborne in ‘My House is Yours’. He still hasn’t gotten over it. He hasn’t even been able to return to the house where they grew up together: “If I go I’ll start to cry because I’m going to remember the room I had with my brother Jaime”.
Miguel Ángel Revilla, a happy grandfather
The joy of the house came in 2014 with the birth of their first grandson, Bruno. All the time he didn’t spend with his daughters because of his work commitments, try to enjoy it now with the little one. He shares walks on the beach, games in the park and his passion for fishing with him. Of course, he would have liked to have become a grandfather much earlier because, on more than one occasion, he has claimed that he has grown up a little.
