Celebrity Biographies
MÁXIMO HUERTA: HIS AGE, HIS CURRENT PARTNER AND WHY HE CHANGED HIS NAME
Born in the Valencian town of Utiel in 1971, it was clear to him that his thing would be the world of communication, which is why he studied Information Sciences at the CEU Cardenal Herrera University, in Valencia.
At a very young age he began to take his first steps in the world of journalism at various local radio stations and writing for newspapers such as Valencia 7 days and Las Provincias.
JUMP ON TV
In 1997 he began working on Channel 9, the now-defunct regional television. There he presented the News for 3 years, achieving great results, a great job that helped him make the leap to national television.
Upon her arrival at Telecinco, she began at the network’s News, where she remained for five seasons, to later make the leap to entertainment with El programa de Ana Rosa. There she became one of the fashionable faces together with her partner Óscar Martínez , leaving the program in 2015 to focus on new projects.
IT WAS ONLY 7 DAYS MINISTER
Already become a great writer, he was appointed Minister of Culture and Sports in the Government of Pedro Sánchez amid a great controversy over his television past. Only a few days later his problems with the Treasury between 2006 and 2008 came to light.
He was sentenced for having tried to defraud 200,000 euros, something that he defended that it was all due to the fact that he followed the advice of his tax advisers, but that he had already solved. “I’m leaving so that the noise of the pack does not start Sánchez’s project,” was what he said in his resignation, just seven days after being appointed.
Completely removed from politics, Máximo Huerta decided to return to his profession on television presenting programs such as As of today, on TVE and the Bona vesprada space, on À Punt, the new Valencian public television. Additionally, he made an appearance on Mask Singer under the mask of Gamba.
CAREER AS A WRITER
If Máximo Huerta has stood out for something, it is because of his career as a writer. He has published the following titles: ‘Let it be the last time’, ‘The whisper of the shell’, ‘A store in Paris’, ‘Don’t leave me (Ne quitte pas)’, ‘The hidden part of the iceberg’, ‘ Firmament’, ‘Love was enough and The dreamed night’.
MÁXIMO HUERTA’S CURRENT PARTNER
Juan Castillo is the man who has occupied the heart of the writer and journalist for several years, although he has managed to keep their relationship a secret from the press for years. Although they have not confirmed it, they have been seen together at different times since 2018. Before this courtship, Huerta acknowledged that she had had a relationship with fashion designer Juan Avellaneda.
WHY WAS THE NAME CHANGED?
In 2019, he surprised everyone by announcing that he was stopping using the name of Máxim Huerta and asking to be called Máximo Huerta. «In this troubled time, the landing place has been my family and my friends. And in my family, my bills, my train tickets… they call me Máximo. Since my father died, he had wanted to sign like this for a long time, “he confessed to Risto Mejide in an interview.