Written in TELEVISION he 5/23/2024 · 3:33 p.m.
Roberto Parra He returned to television to talk about his time in Big Brother. He was the winner of the second edition of the Telefe reality show, in 2001, when he beat Silvina Luna in the final. He was locked up for 120 days and became champion. He knows the details of what it means to have gone through the program and still fight “against depression.”
consulted in Intruders (América TV) about violence in the reality show, expressed: “The next time they come in with rifles… We were Heidi with a muzzled Lassie dog. He went through an abyss in 23 years. Big Brother is a reflection of what society is. “Transmitting violence generates violence”. “Between my house and this one there is an abyss,” she said about Furia Scaglione’s episodes of violence today.
Parra assured that before entering he did not watch GH, but rather El Bar, the reality show with Mario Pergolini that competed on television in those years. “I came in to prove myself. I was in a low mood”he confessed.
“At home they saw me with the good and with my miseries,” he assured and remarked: “You can’t sustain a character.” “The issue is that it does not contaminate you. A person standing on the ground and with bases, with 30 when I entered,” she added.
Parra confessed that he had depression when he entered the program and his father had lost his job. “I still struggle with depression”he added.
THE FAME GENERATED BY BIG BROTHER AND THE REALITY CONTRACTS
“I thought that as a winner they were going to get me another job,” he said about his experience leaving the most famous house on television. However, he is grateful for the experience: “It helped me to get into the house.”
Roberto Parra assured that upon entering he had no problems with his state of health. “I passed the test with the psychologists perfectly.”
The fame that GH generated reached him but it did not change his personality. “You feel like a rock singer,” he said in Intrusos.
Parra also spoke about the agreement that was signed with the production of Big Brother to be part of the reality show and what is coming outside the house. “Contracts are leonine”revealed about a three-year agreement with the production company. “We had to give 30% of everything we did to the production company”he added.
“I was one of those who earned the most, 200 thousand pesos. It was 200 thousand dollars”recalled Parra, who was a victim of the corralito that year and his money had remained inside the bank: “The playpen grabbed me and I lost everything.”
ROBERTO PARRA AND SILVINA LUNA, THE FINAL DUEL
In the final moments of the second GH in Argentina, Roberto Parra had to face the remembered and beloved Silvina Luna, who died after an intense fight against the diseases she suffered from.
Roberto won the final against Silvina, in a historic one-on-one match on TV that the country saw. A few days ago he burst into tears when he remembered her. “I can’t believe it”. He also told why she did not go to “Chivi’s” wake.
