Pablo Motos suffers in silence for disease of his collaborator and great friend Juan Herrera. The co-writer of “El hormiguero” He suffers from cancer diagnosed five years ago.and he found in his boss one of his greatest supports in this very difficult stage of his life.
Fortunately, he is going through a phase called “maintenance of the disease”, it is controlled but not defeated. Juan is optimistic, he has never thrown in the towel and faces his fight with serenity and courage. He even uses humor to downplay his situation. This is what he said to Juan Carlos Ortega on his Cadena SER program: “Without humor, at the beginning it would have been unbearable, because it was very hardbut I was lucky enough to be able to see myself from the outside, as someone who has a gift, and I said to myself: but man, if you’re an asshole, if we applaud we’re not going to lose anything.
Motos and Jorge Salvador, thoughtful souls of “El hormiguero”, try to make life easier for Juan, for whom they feel enormous affection. They have been together since the beginning of the program and all three agree, as Freud said, that “humor helps to alleviate sorrow.”
On another side, Pablo has been involved in an absurd controversy in recent days in which someone dedicated himself to posting posters with his image in which the presenter shares a presence with Francisco Franco. He doesn’t give much importance to the situation, he observes it with his usual irony. The reason for the “franking”, they say, is due to criticism that he launches from time to time against the government of Pedro Sánchez. His detractors baptized “El hormiguero” as “El facholero”, a term which provokes utter hilarity from Motos and his team.