38 years ago the actress and comedian arrived at the oldest program on Colombian television by pure chance, an invitation she accepted changed her life.
Fat Fabiola is one of the actresses and comedians who has been bringing joy to Colombian families for the longest time every Saturday since the oldest program on Colombian television: Sábados Felices, which has been broadcast for 52 years on Canal Caracol, in which They have formed some of the greatest comedians in the country.
Also read: He is the Swiss man who invented the famous Nestlé, owner of La Lechera and Nescafé, in the Alps
Fat Fabiola has told in several interviews how she became part of the Sábados Felices artists and also remembered how much they paid her in those first days.
The actress and comedian, wife of Sábados Felices comedian Nelson Polanía, better known as Polilla, said in the interview that her arrival in the world of entertainment occurred by pure chance. It wasn’t something planned by her. In addition, she was training at the Externado University of Bogotá, as a social communicator, from which she graduated.
It turns out that chubby Fabiola, when she was a university student, lived in Bogotá with her first husband Mauricio Valencia, with whom she had her first two children. One day she was on her way to the university when on 19th Street, where Canal Caracol was, the producer of Sábados Felices, Gonzalo Acosta, stopped her to tell her that they were looking for an extra as chubby as her to record a little joke on Sábados Felices. .
Fat Fabiola accepted and they gave her 8,000 pesos at that time, which today would be about 400 thousand pesos. The much-loved chubby Fabiola did several extras until her humor got into her veins and she was hired as an actress and joke teller. That was almost 40 years ago.
In Sábados Felices was where fat Fabiola met her current husband, whom she married after separating from the father of her first two children.
