▷ Biography of Arturo Macías ◁ “El Turry”, age, height, wife, children

Who is Arturo Macias?

Arturo Macías Attinger  better known as Arturo “El Turry” Macías is a famous television host and radio announcer who throughout his successful career has stood out in programs such as; Life is a song, Today, The Turry Show, 97.7 Announcer, as well as offering conferences and being an influencer. Arturo “El Turry” Macías was born on November 17, 1979 in Mexico City and in 2021 the actress Laura Pons accused him of abuse although he defended himself against such accusations.

Biography of Arturo Macias

Beginnings in the life of Arturo Macías

Arturo Macías was born in Mexico City; the now famous radio host has Swiss ancestry on his mother’s side, named Barbara Attinger Isler.

Since he was a child , Arturo Macías  has been interested in the world of television and radio, and that is how he entered show business at the age of 14, working as a production assistant. We know that he was for a time in his life in Zurich, Switzerland, where his mother worked (and still does) as a school principal. While in Switzerland, Arturo studied theater and modeling. At this time in his life we ​​know that he was a participant in various modeling catwalks for department stores during 1993.

A little later, in 1995 Arturo Macías  would be a contestant on a television program called “Valores Juveniles”, in addition to the year 1997 he would stand out for his participation in the Xe-tú REMIX program, in addition to the fact that we have news that in this same year and until 2000 he would appear in more than 580 television events.

Once in Mexico , Arturo Macías  studied Communication and Public Relations at the Latin American University and later he would study as a Commercial Helicopter Pilot at the Atizapán Airport Flight School.

Arturo Macías  loves to travel in his helicopter, which he has baptized as “steel wasp”, since, according to what he has confessed in different interviews, when he is on top of this transport, in addition to the fact that he arrives much faster to anywhere, it also has a very nice feeling of freedom. He has also confessed that flying is a dream that he always had in mind, along with appearing on television, from his earliest childhood and he has recounted as an anecdote that before going to study at the flight school, he carried out the experience of jumping from the bungee in an attempt to fulfill that obsessive dream of feeling on high, very close to heaven.

As if that were not enough , Arturo Macías , after standing out in his artistic career, received the opportunity to host telegames in the first generation of the La Academia program, a musical contest of the TV Azteca production company.

Trajectory and history of Arturo Macías

In the period from 1998 to 2000, Arturo Macías “El Turry” would work on the program “Al fin de semana” as a production assistant and animator coordinator. A short time later, in the same year 2000, we could see him act in some episodes of the program Mujer Casos de la Vida Real. Arturo Macías  also appeared as a model in the youth magazines known by the names of Tú, Teen, and Eres and it would be in this same year and until the following year, 2001, when he would work as host of the television programs entitled Contacto y Black and White with  Rafa Balderrama  and  Omar Chaparro .

Back in 2003, after being a host for La Academia, Arturo Macías “El Turry” decided that he was ready to try his luck in the world of radio, that’s how he arrived at the famous 97.7 FM station, where he remains until the present. Regarding its performance on 97.7 FM, we must point out that in 2017 the station underwent a restructuring in which it sought to reach a much broader and more diverse audience, that is, to be a radio station that could listen and attract interest of people of all ages and not only young people, as was proposed from the beginning. Regarding this decision, Arturo Macías expressed the following words:“97.7 has had several changes and among them has been that now we also want to address a much more mature audience and not just the kids as it was before, now we play music from all eras so that each person identifies with the station. .”

Shortly after, also during the year 2017, Arturo Macías  would graduate to TV Azteca to participate as a protagonist in the program known by the name of La vida es una canción. We cannot ignore his work in other television programs such as those known by the names of: With a woman’s seal, Shout it out, and Apantállame.

In 2008 Arturo Macías  would become part of the work team of the editorial of the magazine known with the title of Notes for you, where he has his own section whose title is his name combined with his peculiar nickname: ” Arturo el Turry Macías” . He has been working in this editorial since 2008 and up to the present day. Just as he has also served as the host of morning television programs such as the Hoy program where he shared credits with stars such as  Andrea Legarreta ,  Galilea Montijo ,  Paul Stanley ,  Raúl Araiza ,  Lambda García ,  Andrea Escalona , ​​among others. 

Regarding his work as a pilot, Arturo Macías has transported celebrities such as Ana María Lomelí in his own helicopter, another theater actress who was already in a hurry and arrived just in time, among other great show business personalities.

In 2019 Arturo Macías appeared as a guest on the TV Azteca program Enamorándonos hosted by  Carmen Muñoz  and Adrián Cue  where he asked his then wife Jessy García to marry him, a very romantic moment that was captured on Mexican television.

Arturo Macías is accused of abuse by the actress Laura Pons

With a professional career full of successes and blameless, but in mid-2021 a scandal would break out when Arturo “El Turry” Macías was accused by actress Laura Pons, who pointed him out as the perpetrator of sexual abuse against her , when she was a minor. only 17 years old.

The version that Laura Pons gave in the media was that Arturo “El Turry” Macías invited her on a certain occasion to go to the movies, she was 17 years old and her parents let her go with him because Arturo was a person for them trusted. According to Laura Pons, at that time her family had had a very bad time financially, and Arturo “El Turry” Macías supported them after meeting at a XV years expo. The announcer gave them some radio products to sell so that they could earn an income to help them get ahead.

On the way to the supposed visit to the cinema, the announcer took a detour and took her to a motel without asking her opinion. Once they met at the motel, the actress confessed that she was the victim of sexual abuse by the announcer, who, according to her version, forced her to get into a jacuzzi, but after several years Laura Pons and now 23 years old of age decided to speak after a long time to file the complaint after a very tough process in which he finally decided to confess what happened to him.

“I was very ashamed, afraid, terrified, I also felt shielded,” she said in an interview during the television program Ventaneando, explaining that given the fame of Arturo “El Turry” Macías, she believed that if she denounced they would not listen to her , since she was not as famous as him.

The story in which Laura Pons details how the events occurred went viral this afternoon, and the reaction of the media has not been long in coming. The morning program Hoy, where Arturo was working at the time, issued a statement announcing that due to this terrible news they had decided to stop “El Turry” from the program.

Although Arturo Macías assured that he would fully defend himself against all the accusations he was receiving from the actress, it was later learned that “Turry” Macías decided to leave Mexican territory to go live in another country because more complaints had apparently arisen against him. , filed by other alleged victims , as they commented on the youtube program “Chisme No Like”.

Pack of Arturo Macías

Although on social networks and on the internet people search a lot for the Arturo Macías pack or for photos in which he can be seen scantily clad or in sensual poses, the truth is that currently there is no Arturo Macías pack other than those photos. that the artist has published on his own networks and that could be considered sexy.

How much is the fortune of Arturo Macías?

This is one of the questions that people ask the most about Arturo Macías and although they always end up answering it on other pages with “I don’t know” or “it depends” if there are some estimates that various web portals mention. However, it is not possible to make an exact calculation about the fortune of this great star that is Arturo Macías within the middle of the show, even so, more than being interested in the fortune of a person, the important thing is the talent he has and what he has done that he is among the great figures of the international show business.