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Vicente Vallés
Vallés in 2011.
Born
Vicente Vallés Choclán

(1963-07-10) 10 July 1963 (age 61)
Madrid, Spain
Alma materUniversidad Complutense de Madrid
Years active1985–present
Known forJournalist, news anchor and writer
Television
Spouse(s)Lucía Méndez
Ángeles Blanco
Children3

Vicente Vallés Choclán (born 10 July 1963) is a Spanish journalist and television presenter. He is currently the main anchor of Antena 3 Noticias 2, the flagship broadcast of Antena 3, and the most-watched TV news broadcast in Spain.

Biography

After studying his secondary and bachillerato education in Alcorcón, he graduated in information science from the journalism branch of the Complutense University of Madrid. He started in broadcasting at the radio network Cadena SER, working on the programmes Hora 25 de los Negocios and Hoy por hoy. In 1987, he joined the sports broadcasting at TVE, where he remained until he moved to Telemadrid in 1989, where he formed part of the news team, as the main leader of the 8.30pm news with Hilario Pino.

In 1994, he joined Telecinco as editor of Informativos Telecinco then referred to as Las noticias. In 1997, he was named deputy editor of Informativos Telecinco, a position he held for eleven years, where he was responsible for the process of digitalising newsgathering, the first time this was used in Spain.

In January 1998 the channel gave him the presenting role on La mirada crítica, the daily daytime current affairs discussion show, every Friday. In 1999 he started to present the weekend news bulletins. In 2001, he was in New York when the September 11 attacks occurred, reporting over the phone to the Telecinco news studio in Madrid.[1] In 2004, he reported from the scene of the 11-M bombings in the capital.[2]

In 2004 he returned to La mirada crítica after Montserrat Domínguez jumped ship to Antena 3. He stayed with the show and with Informativos Telecinco until 2008. In September 2008, he became the subleader of TVE's Canal 24 Horas, where he presented the interviews and current affairs programme La noche en 24 horas.[3]

Between 5 September 2011 and 25 June 2016 he directed and presented Antena 3 Noticias 1, the 3pm newscast, replacing Roberto Arce after his move to Cuatro. During his first series on Antena 3, he presented with Mónica Carrillo and after 2012 with Lourdes Maldonado.

He has been the moderator of four election debates in 2015, 2016 and twice in 2019 - one in April and one in November.[4] On 7 December 2015 he moderated the 7D: El debate decisivo four-way debate with Ana Pastor, which gained 9.2 million viewers and a 48.2% share when broadcast on all of the Atresmedia channels, becoming the most-watched broadcast of the year.[5] He moderated the debate on 13 June 2016, simulcast across seventeen channels with both Ms. Pastor and Pedro Piqueras, who took his job at Informativos Telecinco eight years prior. It attracted almost 10.5 million viewers.[6]

After five years at A3 Noticias 1, Vallés presented the flagship Antena 3 Noticias 2 at 9pm on weeknights with Esther Vaquero. In 2023, he reunited with Ana Pastor to present that year's head-to-head election debate between Pedro Sánchez and Alberto Núñez Feijóo, however both were criticised for not intervening more in a heated debate. Vallés defended his performance, saying that by leaving the pair to discuss between each other, audiences got to know more about their personalities.[7][8]

Vallés presented the results of the 2023 election on Antena 3,[9] and reprised his role for the Catalan and European elections the following year.[10][11] In March 2023, Vallés returned to A3 Noticias 1 for a short time in an experiment to swap places with Sandra Golpe, but eventually they swapped back. Vallés occasionally writes for newspapers 20 minutos, La Razón and El Confidencial.

Vallés has written two books on politics and foreign affairs: Trump y la caída del imperio Clinton ("Trump and the fall of the Clinton empire") was released in 2017, analysing the key reasons for Donald Trump's victory in the 2016 presidential election, and El rastro de los rusos muertos ("Tracing the dead Russians") was released in 2019, analysing Vladimir Putin's foreign policy, and the unexplained deaths of Russian spies and diplomats. In 2022, he published the political thriller Operación Kazan, a novel about a complex spy plot in which the KGB, CIA and National Intelligence Centre are all involved.[12]

Private life

Vallés was originally married to fellow journalist Lucía Méndez, with whom he had two children.[13] He then married Ángeles Blanco, whom he met when working at Informativos Telecinco, and they have one son, Daniel.[14] His brother José Antonio Vallés Choclán is also the National Politics and Defence Correspondent at Informativos Telecinco. They are both supporters of Atlético Madrid.

References

  1. ^ Informativos Telecinco (2002-09-11). Informativo Madrugada - Fragmento (11-9-2002) (Television production) (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-09-10 – via YouTube.{{cite AV media}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  2. ^ Informativos Telecinco (2004-03-11). Informativo - Fragmento 11-M (11-3-2004) (resubido) (Television production) (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-09-10 – via YouTube.{{cite AV media}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  3. ^ FormulaTV. "Vicente Vallés: "En TVE tenía una libertad de trabajo equiparable a la que voy a tener en Antena 3"". FormulaTV (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-12-19.
  4. ^ LaSexta Noticias (2019-04-23). "Ana Pastor y Vicente Vallés, moderadores del Debate Decisivo con 'antecedentes' ya en 2015" [Ana Pastor and Vicente Vallés, moderators of the Decisive Debate with "history" in 2015]. LaSexta (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-09-10.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  5. ^ López, Tony (2015-12-08). "'7D: El debate decisivo' de Atresmedia TV (48,2%) se alza como lo más visto de 2015 con más de 9,2 millones" [Atresmedia's "7D: The Decisive Debate" (48.2%) comes out as the most-watched of 2015 with more than 9.2 million]. FormulaTV (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-09-10.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  6. ^ "El 'Deb4te2016' reúne a 10.496.000 espectadores (57%), entre 17 cadenas" ['Deb4te 2016' unites 10,496,000 viewers (57%) across 17 networks]. FormulaTV (in Spanish). 2016-06-14. Retrieved 2024-09-10.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  7. ^ Justo, David (2023-07-12). "Vicente Vallés explica por qué no intervino más en el debate y señala lo que hemos podido aprender del mismo" ["Vicente Vallés explains why he didn't intervene more in the debate and suggests that we were able to learn about them"]. Cadena SER (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2024-09-10.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  8. ^ "Vicente Vallés, sobre el 'cara a cara': "No era una entrevista, era un debate. El fact-checking inmediato le correspondía al otro contrincante"" ["Vicente Vallés on the 'head to head': "It wasn't an interview, it was a debate. Immediate fact-checking was down to the opponent"]. LaSexta (in Spanish). 2023-07-12. Retrieved 2024-09-10.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  9. ^ Antena 3 (2023-07-25). ATRESMEDIA - Antena 3 | Entrada especial ELECCIONES GENERALES 23J - 23.07.2023 (Television production) (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-09-10 – via YouTube.{{cite AV media}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  10. ^ Antena 3 (2024-05-12). ATRESMEDIA - Antena 3 | Especial Informativo - Elecciones Cataluña 2024 - 12.05.2024 (Television production) (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-09-10 – via YouTube.{{cite AV media}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  11. ^ Antena 3 (2024-06-09). Fragmento - A3N Especial Elecciones Europeas (09/06/24) (Television production) (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-09-10 – via YouTube.{{cite AV media}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  12. ^ Europa Press (2022-02-18). "El periodista Vicente Vallés, Premio Primavera de Novela 2022 con 'Operación Kazán'" ["Journalist Vicente Vallés, Spring 2022 Novel Prize with 'Operation Kazan'"]. www.europapress.es. Retrieved 2024-09-10.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  13. ^ "Rossy de Palma, Marta Ortiz, Lucía Méndez y Laura Baena hablan de la relación maternal adulta". ELMUNDO (in Spanish). 2018-05-06. Retrieved 2022-12-19.
  14. ^ "El top de parejas que se lleva el amor a la oficina - Vicente Vallés (52) y ... | loc | EL MUNDO". ELMUNDO (in Spanish). 2016-02-03. Retrieved 2024-09-10.

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