You cannot talk about RTVE without making special mention of Jordi Hurtado, since the Barcelona native is one of its star presenters. It all started back in 1997, almost three decades ago, when he signed for To know and to win, a question and answer contest that is already a history of the small screen. Just like your driver.
Discreet, always smiling and iconic thanks to his glasses, you just have to take a look at these 27 years of the program to realize one thing: Jordi has hardly changed. In fact, it is difficult to guess which year each of his photographs belongs to at a glance, since the only thing that can give a clue is the frame of his glasses, which he renews according to fashion. In fact, on one occasion Toñi Moreno challenged him to indicate what year some of his images were from. And it failed miserably.
Of course, the passage of time is also noticeable in him, especially if you compare his most recent images with those from his beginnings on TVE, in 1985, almost 40 years ago. Despite this, there are different hoaxes about his figure – all with a touch of humor – ranging from the fact that he has an elixir of eternal youth to what is seen on the screen. It’s your hologram.
He, as he has stated on more than one occasion, does see the change, “an abysmal difference,” he has come to say, especially if his hairstyle and the aforementioned glasses are taken into account. But to their just turned 67 years old -this Sunday, June 16-, one cannot say more that he is ‘great’, both physically and professionally.
Before making the leap to To know and to winJordi Hurtado was in the contest If I know I won’t come, in which tests of ability, speed and ingenuity were combined with general knowledge questions, and in which he shared the screen with Virginia Mataix. At that moment her youth was more obvious, because I was 28 years old.
Such was the success of this space that the producer, Sergi Schaaff, wanted to continue having it. This is how he got to his resume 3×4a program for the Catalan circuit that was broadcast on La 1 and La 2. It was followed by The million dollar league, Pictionary, game carts, let’s play to the Trivial and finally, To know and to win.
And although this has been his emblem since then, the Barcelona native has not limited himself to this space, trying his luck in many other television programs. Some of the best known are How do they do that?in which he coincided with the journalist Almudena Ariza, or TV memorieswhich could only be seen on the Catalan TVE circuit.
As if that were not enough, also He has made his first steps as an actor in different series, sometimes playing himself. In the remembered 7 lives He participated in 2005, his only time on a private network. The rest has been for RTVE spaces, where she surprised viewers in The ministry of time and in the comedy of sketches The barber shop.
