On the afternoon of Wednesday, January 20, he took to the set of Save me his most anticipated duel. Belén Esteban and Paz Padilla faced each other live, after the controversy of the incendiary statements of the Cádiz presenter about the coronavirus vaccine.
On December 29, and after having been on sick leave for contracting coronavirus for the second time, Paz did a live show on Instagram with Anne Igartiburu and the singer María del Monte to tell how she was feeling. When asked about the contagion, even with the two doses of the vaccine, the presenter sowed controversy by ensuring that “vaccines are useless”, something that left her companions speechless, as did her subsequent explanation: “The The vaccine is a protein that the ‘Spider’ puts in you, which is the protein through which the virus enters, but of course, the vaccine is that of the ‘Luján’ bug and now it has mutated, now we have the ‘oritron’ and now it no longer enters through the door, enter through the window,” he said.
These statements by Paz Padilla about Covid are from WTF
— M 📺 (@casasola_89) December 30, 2021
As expected, her comments caused a real revolution in social networks, with thousands of users charging against her. Anonymous and co-workers, as was the case with Belén Esteban, who did not hesitate to respond to what happened through her networks with a direct message: “There are unnecessary things and this is one of them. We have to get vaccinated.”
Face to face in ‘Save me’
After the confrontation, the two faced each other live for the first time. The meeting, as expected, was anything but friendly: rudeness, hurtful comments and even threats of lawsuits… Something that was later transferred to the debate with his colleagues. Paz Padilla assured that the controversial video broadcast on the Internet was manipulated, that what she was defending was that vaccines do not exempt you from catching the disease, but she does believe that vaccines are effective and save lives. Belén, for her part, was very clear in her opinion: she believes that the presenter is lying and does not believe in the vaccine.
Belén and Paz saw each other’s faces for the first time after the controversy.
“Because you say so, I’m freaking out, man. I’m hallucinating. Why don’t I believe in the vaccine? Come on, Belén, you’ve gotten into this all by yourself,” exclaimed Paz, asking Paracuellos for explanations, while Kiko Hernández said in the background that if she didn’t believe in that, she wouldn’t have been vaccinated.
That was the trigger for Esteban, who exploded screaming: “The one who got involved is you making that video, don’t blame me. Don’t tell me anything. Anne and Maria’s faces were a poem! An accusation that caused the Cadiz woman, on the verge of tears, to decide to leave the set while saying “pass, no, no”; and ripping off her microphone so violently that she unbuttoned her dress, and leaving the show in one of the most tense ways in living memory to date.
Paz Padilla leaves the set of #yoveosalvame after confronting Belén Esteban about the issue of vaccines. pic.twitter.com/YUb5VoSzvG
— Lord of the mask🔻🏳️🌈 (@MenervaPiquero) January 20, 2022
After Paz left, it was Kiko Hernández who took the reins of the program to try to pass the drink, with a visible tension on set. Kiko Matamoros and Chelo García Cortés declared that they did not believe Paz either, while Rafa Mora tried to calm the waters by saying that all the controversy was nothing more than a misunderstanding. María Patiño, for her part, decided not to give her opinion.
Is Paz Padilla really vaccinated?
However, this sparked another debate: Is Paz Padilla really vaccinated? The person responsible for sowing doubt was a comment by Kiko Matamoros, who opined that the reason why the issue had sparked such controversy was that Paz herself had never confirmed having received the vaccine: “Paz does not convince me because I think the question they ask about whether she is vaccinated, she does not answer, she says that vaccines are useless. It seems that it is justified that it is not vaccinated because they are useless, “he snapped.
Kiko Matamoros sowed doubt about Paz’s vaccination.
A line for which his colleagues also thought. Kiko Hernandez added that “on the social network she does not answer if she is vaccinated and today here she has very quickly said yes”; while Belén exploded again and sowed even more doubts: “Many here know the truth and they are not saying it. If we say it and speak it all, we say it all. It is very strong. Things are being said that are lies and in the end the one that looks bad is Belén Esteban”.
The situation got out of control in such a way that the program’s management had to intervene, deciding to settle the matter and move on to other topics without making any further references, leaving the viewers with doubts.
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