The singer Rosa López, former contestant of Operación Triunfo, has announced that she will not participate in some of the 25th anniversary events of the contest, which is being celebrated this 2026. In a video posted on social media, the winner of the first edition criticized that former contestants are relied upon to fuel the show's nostalgia but that they do not receive enough support for their musical careers during the rest of the year.

"Cross the catwalk!" It has been 25 years since this television catchphrase became popular. It was one of the key moments of every broadcast of Operación Triunfo, the talent show that revolutionized Spanish television and music and that this October celebrates a quarter of a century. On the night of October 22, 2001, TVE kicked off a new format that mixed elements of the reality genre, which was just beginning to emerge, and musical contests. After the third gala, when the phenomenon exploded, nothing was ever the same again, neither on Spanish television nor in the lives of the sixteen young contestants who had signed up for the program with the hope of making a career as singers.

In Nia Sanjuán's X profile bio she says, "I'd like to be a better person, but I work in television." After more than twenty years creating, writing, and directing all kinds of television formats, she admits that her ironic bio might need an update. "I think television and the mainstream Now they are much more highly regarded, especially by the younger generations. When I was a student, I looked down on television because it was associated with people who worked frivolously and in a yellow way," explains Sanjuán, who confesses that he studied audiovisual communication because "he wanted to be Jean-Luc Godard," like all his classmates. Now things have changed. "Every time I've looked for an apartment, I've seen that I've seen that I've seen that. You mention key names, like Operation Triumph, people already find you funny," he says.

We met with Josep Maria Mainat on July 7, just five days before the death of his longtime partner in adventure, Toni Cruz. "Do you want me to add anything to the interview?" I asked when I heard the news. He asked for a moment to think, and, shaken by the loss, finally replied: "It's better not to say anything." The pain is more than understandable, as their lives and their stories can only be understood when they are intertwined. And they begin on a train, the journey they shared to travel from Canet to Barcelona when they were two teenagers. It is on these journeys that La Trinca is born, it is from La Trinca that they are shown on television, and it is from these television appearances that they create Gestmusic, which would eventually become a true giant of audiovisual production. During the 1990s, they were the brains behind some of the most successful programs in the history of television, and in fact, Cruz was still at the forefront, having led the transformation of Barça One for three years. "I don't want to do TV anymore," says Mainat, a producer, singer, and much more. A great lover of science, he wrote the book "Barça One" years ago. Optimistic Science (Grijalbo publishing house) and is preparing to write specifically about science for the ARA. He debuts as a columnist with the section The Child's Things, which will be published on weekends in the summer paper, and has also been the focus of recent crime stories due to the attempted murder he suffered at the hands of his ex-wife, Angela Dobrowolski.

The Espacio Mestral at Barcelona's Olympic Port was a hive of excitement and young people from all over Catalonia and beyond (some from Madrid or Belgium). Castings are currently underway.Operation Triumph And in Barcelona, a total of 1,600 people, mostly young, waited for ten o'clock to arrive so they could start singing in front of the show's team. Waiting for their big moment, some candidates timidly fine-tuned their voices, while others kept their eyes glued to their phones or hugged their competitors as if the casting were a shared feat.