Shakira's assistant, on all fours

In the process of The Revolt to close the season, on Wednesday evening they connected via video call with Shakira. A typically promotional interview to announce the concerts in September and October in Madrid. An absolutely bland and inconsequential conversation to be able to say that you have had the singer on the program. Shakira was in Boston, in the middle of a tour and awaiting her performance at the World Cup final. She was connecting from an elegant living room, decorated with the typical coldness and impersonality of a luxury hotel or an apartment for wealthy people. David Broncano, despite his relaxed tone, tried to appear somewhat normal, eliminating any transcendence from the moment. However, he showed the prudence that big international stars usually demand, where everything must be extremely polite and a rather reverential attitude must be suggested. The presenter followed all the protocols of praise, recognition of the singer's artistic work, and mention of the concerts, with the right amount of hyperbole. Shakira responded with polite laughter, the generosity of inviting him to her shows, and that joy of celebrities to show that, despite their fame, they remain normal, everyday people.

During the interview, the ring of a couple of calls that were coming into the phone from which Shakira was making the connection was heard. Broncano and company took the opportunity to joke about that coincidence. And while they were giving the option to include the call live to talk all together, an unusual event occurred. From the side of the image, a girl appeared on all fours, moving behind Shakira, to cut off the call interruptions. She wanted to hide, and the result was the opposite. The program noted that awkward situation, and Shakira, upon realizing she had been seen on screen, laughed. “Let people stand up!”, said Ricardo Castella, co-director of the program. Broncano asked the girl we had seen crawling to come out and say hello, and Shakira introduced her as her assistant. She hugged her, and they laughed together. “Diana always gives me that touch!”, the singer pointed out to downplay it. You prepare the most bland and cliché script to interview Shakira, and chance gives you a comic moment that makes the moment viral and unique.

The scene reflects the miseries of television, but also those of the big stars, where there is always someone willing to walk on all fours to make everything seem perfect. The moment recalled that BBC connection in 2017 with correspondent Robert E. Kelly, when his young children burst into the office and the mother of the creatures, stressed and trying to hide, crawled to get them out of the room. Shakira wanted to seem like an ordinary, down-to-earth person. Nothing humanizes more than everyday life entering the screen. A barometer that also reveals everyone's status.