Laura Escanes confirms her relationship with the Andorran Joan Verdú

BarcelonaLaura Escanes couldn't hide her ear-to-ear smile when the press asked her if she was "excited." Speculations about a possible relationship between the Catalan content creator and the Andorran skier had been rife for days after different users had read the comments they wrote to each other on their social media posts.

"I'm very well, very happy and very pleased," she replied to the first journalist during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in Madrid without specifying the reason for her excitement. The next question, despite avoiding any name, was more direct. "Some say he looks like Álvaro de Luna," said a second journalist in reference to the former partner of the presenter of The Crossing"Well, it doesn't seem that way to me. He's also an athlete... Well, everything is wonderful," he says, assuming that the person he is referring to is the professional skier Joan Verdú, 29 years old.

The relationship could have started after the Christmas holidays, since Laura Escanes herself posted a post skiing in Grandvalira in which she appeared in different photographs, and without any pretense, with Joan Verdú. The skier is known for having dedicated his life to the world of skiing, as a teacher of this sport and also for having participated in the 2022 Beijing Olympic Games in the slalom modality.

It was precisely through skiing that she met Laura Escanes' ex-husband, Risto Mejide. In March 2015, a few months before the relationship between the presenter and Escanes came to light, Mejide had Verdú as a private ski instructor. The publication that the presenter of the program Everything is a lie The post he made on Instagram that January seems to indicate that he was happy with the skier: "I present to you my Andorran ski teacher." Verdú was also happy to meet Risto, which can be deduced from a comment he wrote on the publicist's post: "One uncle "fantastic".