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Gisela Valcárcel
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Gisela Valcárcel (2008)
Born
Sonia Mercedes Gisela Valcárcel Álvarez

(1963-01-26) 26 January 1963 (age 61)
Lima, Peru
Other names"La reina del medio día" (the queen of mid-day TV shows), "La señito"
Occupation(s)hostess, actress, writer, businesswoman
Years active21
Spouse(s)soccer player Roberto Martínez- captain of "U" (universitario de deportes) soccer team (divorced), Architect Javier Carmona (divorced)
ChildrenEthel Poso Valcárcel

Sonia Mercedes Gisela Valcárcel Álvarez (born January 26, 1963) is a Peruvian television hostess, actress,[1] and businesswoman.

Early life

Alvarez was born on 26 January 1963, to her parents Jorge Valcárcel and Teresa Álvarez. She studied at Institución Educativa Teresa González de Fanning.

Alvarez was a minor when she was became pregnant with boyfriend Jorge Pozo.  Once her daughter Ethel was born, Alvarez began her arduous and convoluted path to success. She started as a secretary at a car company and was hired as an extra for theater performances.

Career

Her career in show business began when she publicly kissed Venezuelan singer Oscar de León live on Peruvian television. She was working as a part-time receptionist on Panamerican televisión, channel 5, back then.

She started as a comic actress and a dancer ("vedette"), in the program Risas y Salsa and La gran Revista.

In 1987, Panamericana Televisión proposed conducting a Peruvian version of Hello Susana, which would be named "Alo Gisela". Alvarez then became the queen of daytime television on Peruvian TV for several years during the late '80s and early '90s.

Her guests have been famous Latin American stars such as Julio Iglesias, Luis Miguel, Guillermo Dávila, Ricardo Montaner, Shakira, María Antonieta de las Nieves, Isabel Pantoja, José Luis Rodríguez, Menudo, Ricky Martin, Thalía, Paulina Rubio, Rocío Dúrcal, and Paloma San Basilio. Her TV shows were always very popular due to her interaction with the audiences, including phone conversations on TV and offering advice to the audience, especially housewives. At the same time, she founded "Amarige Salon & Urban Spa", a beauty parlor.

Gisela Valcárcel simultaneously hosted Saturday nighttime television shows in the late nineties and early 2000, including a local version of Big Brother named La Casa de Gisela.

Her latest project is a local version of Bailando por un sueño in franchise with Mexican TV station Televisa. In January 2009 she traveled to the United States to get a new franchise in the Natpe conference. In February 2009 she returned to Lima with her new TV project: El Show de los Sueños, again in a franchise with Televisa.

In 2010 she hosted "El Gran Show".

In 2012, she hosted Operación Triunfo, the Peruvian version of Star Academy. However, in August she decided to return to the dance reality show El Gran Show.

Scandal

She was involved in a political scandal when a video of her with José Francisco Carreño Crousillat and Vladimiro Montesinos was released. The footage shows that Montesinos informed Alvareaz of measures to be taken to prevent the distribution of a book (La Señito by Carlos Vidal) that reveals intimate aspects of her life. This was denounced as an offense against public administration. A lawsuit was not filed since the judge dismissed the complaint and acquitted the parties involved of all charges.

Personal Life

On 10 June 1995, she married Roberto Martínez Vera-Tudela, a popular soccer player & captain of "la U". The wedding grabbed local headlines in the national press and was broadcast live on television. After some years, the couple divorced.

During the political scandal, Valcarcel also began a personal spiritual search that took her to India, where she met some religious leaders, including Sathya Sai Baba, and in the U.S. Deepak Chopra.

In 2006, after six years of romance, she married Peruvian architect Javier Carmona. The couple separated shortly after the marriage due to a supposed affair between Carmona and another Peruvian entertainer Tula Rodríguez. Valcarcel had mentored Rodriguez and considered the affair a betrayal.

Business Ventures

Alvarez currently owns and manages the "Amarige" Beauty Salons & Spas in Lima. She is the director of women's magazines Gisela and Amarige. She also runs her own television production company called GV Productions.

Gisela magazine

Gisela is a monthly magazine for women founded by Gisela Valcárcel Alvarez. It has women's tips including: fashion, business, cooking, erotism, dieting and actors' news. Alvarez suspended the magazine production in 2008 to work on Los Reyes de la Pista (Perú).

GV Productions

GV Productions is a television producer. Valcárcel's program El Show de los sueños (Peru) runs on its network.

Publications

In 2005 her autobiography, My Name is Gisela, was published by Santillana Group. In it, she gives an account of her life from childhood, including her beginnings as a star and her coming to television as hostess of the program Aló Gisela.

If I talk about my sorrows and joys that is because what friends do: tell everything

— Gisela Valcarcel, at presentation of the book (translated from Spanish)

Appearances

As hostess

  • "Aló Gisela" (1987–1992) midday show on Panamericana Televisión Channel 5
  • "Gisela en America" (1993-1994) midday show on América Televisión Channel 4
  • "Así es Gisela" (1995) night show on Panamericana Televisión Channel 5
  • "Gisela en América" (1996–1997) midday show on América Televisión Channel 4
  • "Gisela contigo" (1998) midday show on Red Global Channel 13
  • "Aló Gisela" (2000) midday show on Panamericana Televisión Channel 5
  • "Gisela" (2001) night show on Panamericana Televisión Channel 5
  • "Gisela" (2002) night show on Frecuencia Latina Channel 2
  • "La casa de Gisela" (2003) night show on Frecuencia Latina Channel 2
  • "Siempre Gisela" (2005) night show on Frecuencia Latina Channel 2
  • "Bailando por un sueño" (2008) night show on Panamericana Televisión Channel 5
  • "Los Reyes de la Pista" (2008) night show on Panamericana Televisión Channel 5
  • El Show de los sueños (2009) night show on América Televisión Channel 4
  • "El Gran Show" (2010) night show on America Television Channel 4

Public shows

In theatre

Films

  • Tarata (2008)

Awards

Year Award Category Program Result
1997 Vitra Awards (Uruguay) Award for her 10 years of experience as a social communicator in the Peruvian television Award for her programs: Aló Gisela, Gisela en América, Así es Gisela. Winner
2008 Premios a la Excelencia Anda 2009 Excellence in production and realization Bailando por un sueño Winner
2008 Premios a la Excelencia Anda 2009 Excellence in entertainment programs Bailando por un sueño Winner
2008 El Comercio Awards Best competition program Bailando por un sueño Winner
2008 El Comercio Awards Female face from the year Bailando por un sueño Winner

References

  1. ^ Morocho, Ana (10 October 2010). "Gisela Valcárcel: "Mario Vargas Llosa pertenece al mundo"". Peru.com (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 14 October 2010. Retrieved 6 July 2011.
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