Mercedes Milá

María Mercedes Milá Mencos (born 4 April 1951) is a Spanish television presenter and journalist, most notable for her work on Spain's Telecinco's Gran Hermano, the Spanish version of the reality television series Big Brother.

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Milá and the second or maternal family name is Mencos.
Mercedes Milá
Mercedes Milá in 2012
Born
María Mercedes Milá Mencos

(1951-04-04) 4 April 1951
Esplugues de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
NationalitySpanish
Occupation(s)Television Presenter, Journalist
Years activeEarly 1970s–present

Biography

Mercedes Milá was born in Esplugues de Llobregat on 5 April 1951, the daughter of José Luis Milá Sagnier, Count of Montseny, and Mercedes Mencos, and eldest of six brothers and sisters (including newscaster Lorenzo Milá).[1] She studied Philosophy, but abandoned it and then studied journalism and arts in Barcelona, where he got a Bachelor's degree.[2] She first worked as journalist in El Correo de Andalucía, in Sevilla.[3] Shortly afterwards she began working in the newsrooms of Spanish public broadcaster Televisión Española. She joined the sports division, where she remained between 1974 and 1978, when she was selected to co-host, along with Isabel Tenaille, the talk show Dos por Dos ("Two by Two"). After the show was cancelled, Milá returned to radio. She worked with Iñaki Gabilondo in Cadena SER.[4]

Milá's TV comeback came in 1982 with the program Buenas Noches ("Goodnight"), which became one of the hits of the season and lasted until 1984. Her personal style and directness with her guests helped her turn into one of the most popular Spanish TV personalities of the 1980s. After a brief stint with the Catalan television station TV3, and then back in TVE in 1990, she moved over to new private TV network Antena 3 in the early nineties, where she stayed until moving to private broadcaster Telecinco in 2000.

In 2000 she found renewed success as the host of the Spanish franchise of hit reality show Gran Hermano, earning poor critical reviews but massive ratings.[5] As of 2017, Milá has hosted fifteen of the seventeen regular seasons of the show (all except for season 3 in 2002 which was hosted by Pepe Navarro,[6] and season 17 in 2016 which was hosted by Jorge Javier Vázquez)[7] and two All Stars seasons.[8]

In 2016 she hosted a TV program named Convénzeme, con Z de Zweig which motivates people to read.[9][10]

In 2012 she published a book based on the blog she writes in Telecinco named Lo que me sale del bolo.[11]

In February 2019 she will host the TV program Scott y Mila in Movistar+.[12]

Shows

Televisión Española
  • Polideportivo (1974–1978)
  • Dos por dos (1978)
  • Buenas noches (1982–1984)
  • De jueves a jueves (1986)
  • El martes que viene (1990)

TV3
  • Dilluns, dilluns (1988)

Antena 3
  • Queremos saber (1992–1993)
  • Más que palabras (1995)
  • Sin límites (1998)
  • Queremos saber más (2002)

Telecinco
  • Gran Hermano (2000–2015) (excluding Gran Hermano 3 and the VIP seasons)
  • Diario de... (2004–2011)
  • La tribu (2009) with Javier Sardá

Cuatro
  • Diario de... (2011–)
  • El comecocos (2011) as a judge

References
  1. "Mercedes Milá en 10 claves 1. Familia aristocrática". Diez Minutos (in Spanish). Hearst Magazines International. 24 April 2017. Retrieved 10 February 2019.
  2. "Mercedes Milá y el periodismo en 1989". Canal Sur (in Spanish). 2018. Retrieved 10 February 2019.
  3. "Mercedes Milá y Sevilla". Canal Sur (in Spanish). 2018. Retrieved 10 February 2019.
  4. Lafuente, Isaías (22 February 2012). Agrupémonos todas: La lucha de las españolas por la igualdad. Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial España. p. 337. ISBN 9788403011892.
  5. "GH 18: Las redes piden el regreso de Mercedes Milá a Gran Hermano". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). 26 September 2017. Retrieved 10 February 2019.
  6. "PEPE NAVARRO, EL NUEVO 'GRAN HERMANO' DE TELE 5". El País (in Spanish). Prisa. 24 March 2002. Retrieved 10 February 2019.
  7. "Jorge Javier Vázquez sustituye a Mercedes Milá al frente de 'Gran Hermano 17'". Diez Minutos (in Spanish). Hearst Magazines International. 30 June 2016. Retrieved 10 February 2019.
  8. "Mercedes Milá se despide oficialmente de 'Gran Hermano 17'". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). 9 September 2016. Retrieved 10 February 2019.
  9. "'Convénzeme', programa literario presentado por Mercedes Milá". Telecinco (in Spanish). Mediaset España. BeMad TV. 8 June 2016. Archived from the original on 9 June 2016. Retrieved 10 February 2019.
  10. Herruzo, Ignacio (November 2016). "Mercedes Milá estrena 'Convénzeme', un programa de libros sin escritores ni críticos: "Por fin nos hacen caso a los lectores"". Fotogramas (in Spanish). Hearst España. Archived from the original on 11 November 2016. Retrieved 10 February 2019.
  11. "Mercedes Milá publica un libro basado en su blog 'Lo que me sale del bolo'". El Economista (in Spanish). Editorial Ecoprensa, S.A. 26 February 2013. Retrieved 10 February 2019.
  12. "Mercedes Milá presenta su nuevo programa con su perro". El Periódico (in Spanish). Grupo Zeta. 12 September 2018. Retrieved 27 February 2019.
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