Miguel Ángel ‘Pulpillo’ He jumped to fame in 2008. He lived 104 days in the house of Guadalix de la Sierra as contestant of ‘Big Brother 8’. He stayed at the doors of the final. He was the last expelled from reality. With their departure, the three members of a final that would end up winning Naiala Melo. Despite the great support he had from the spectators, the Jiennense moved away from the media focus. Every time a news about him has come out, it has been to inform about some of the events that have limited him.
He has been arrested, has spent two months in provisional prison and has suffered a serious car accident that still carries consequences. This Sunday he reappeared at ‘Fiesta’ to tell the complicated moments he has lived since he went through the house of ‘Big Brother’.
Pulpillo was seriously injured After being hit by a car in the Almeria town of Roquetas de Mar in the year 2022. The vehicle circulated at 83 kilometers per hour through a pedestrian crossing. It was led by a male of foreign nationality of about 60 years, according to ‘El Diario de Almería’. This fact had serious consequences for the Jiennense. He spent three months in a coma and two years in a hospitalfacing a slow and painful recovery.


Lost its memory and also a good part of mobility. In the hospital, they came to fear for their life. “Doctors said that, or I was dying or staying in bed forever“He said on the set of ‘Long live life’. Although the event happened three years ago, it still drags sequelae, both physical and emotional. Among the physical consequences is the loss of fertility and impotence.” It is what I have worse, “he said very affected.
The worst moment of pulpillo life
“Many things have happened, it has been the worst stage of my life. It cannot be that they get caught with a car and run out. I went eighty -three kilometers per hour by a pedestrian step. They caught him. He has always tried to communicate with me,” Pulpillo said during his interview, visibly excited.


Emma García wanted to know more about the fact that the author of the outrage has tried contactor with him. Pulpillo related the meeting. He approached him in the middle of the street to try to apologize. “He told me: ‘I am the one who has caught you, forgive me.’ Some of those present on set tried to value this gesture; However, the former ‘GH’ concursion is convinced that It was an attempt to avoid jail.
The pulpillo passage through prison
The Pulpillo name had already reappeared in the Pink press in 2016, when it was arrested by the Civil Guard. They stopped him in the framework of Operation Krake for his alleged involvement as leader in a plot that was dedicated to cheating customers in businesses related to mobile telephony. Because of this, he spent 42 days in prison. Although it was a short period, he said it was very painful to live something like that he was innocent.
Five years later, in 2021, the Provincial Court of Jaén He acquitted all the positions of fraud and documentary falsehood. Until then, the Prosecutor’s Office asked for 7 and 2 years in prison, respectively. “This is the result of a great struggle. The truth only has one path. The one who owes nothing, nothing fears,” he said after knowing the sentence.
The new pulpillo life
Before passing through the house of Guadalix de la Sierra, Pulpillo was a farmer. After staying at the gates of the ‘GH8’ final, he returned to his usual job. The money he earned invested in real estate, something that has slaughtered his life today. “I was a farmer, but I can’t be, I can’t work in the field. Now I live from rentals“He explained at ‘Fiesta’.
Duranto in the last and difficult years, Pulpillo has taken refuge in his family. He has taken advantage of his presence in Emma García’s program to confess that he misses the television world. He has revealed that at the time of the outrage he was considering participating in ‘Survivors’. With the only one who is still in contact of ‘GH8’ is with Dani.