As if the audience crisis and remodeling of the program weren’t enough, this past weekend we also found out that La Fábrica de la Tele, the producer of ‘Sálvame’ is being investigated by the Police in the so-called “Operation Deluxe”according to El Mundo.
This plot involves one of the show’s regular collaborators (and others), the paparazzi Gustavo Gonzalez and the relationship with one of his sources, a policeman who would pass him confidential information about some 140 characters from the social chronicle of Spain, some of whom are companions of the program.
Belén Esteban among those investigated
Among them is Belén Esteban, who already in January commented on the subject in ‘Sálvame’ during a discussion with the aforementioned paparazzi: “Gustavo knows everything about everyone” assured the woman before engaging in a discussion in code (“Because you are a journalist, do you have to have what you have?”).
According to the collaborator at the time, the police had called him to come to the police station and came across this “research” by Gustavo González: «No, Bethlehem, no. Belén has been called by the police. And they informed me of what you had in your house of mine. What do you think, that I’m a criminal?
Belén Esteban already uncovered that Gustavo González had spied on her but from management they ordered her to shut up because they knew she was going to splash them. pic.twitter.com/JXoe8yeT2m
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She was not the only collaborator of ‘Sálvame’ to comment on the tricks of the paparazzi to get information, Anabel Pantoja also commented on the existence of these mugshots last summer.
Despite having come to light in recent days, this investigation had already been underway for several months and from La Fábrica de la Tele they knewat least briefly, of the “espionage” practices of his collaborator.
For now, from the producer have released a statement ensuring that no director or editor of ‘Sálvame’ He is related to the police friend of Gustavo González. On the other hand, this makes us see in a different light the recent movements of directors and presenters of the program, which can now be read as a damage control strategy.