Chelo García-Cortés

ABOUT CHELO GARCíA-CORTéS

Spanish journalist who specializes in celebrity gossip and current events. She is best recognized for her role on different TV3 television programs and for her work as a columnist for Hola! and Semana Magazine.

She graduated with a degree in Journalism from the Faculty of Information Sciences of the Autonomous University of Barcelona. In 1973, she started working for La Voz del Mino, a radio station in Ourense. In 1975, she began working in celebrity gossip at Radio Miramar and began publishing stories in Hola! Magazine. Her television debut came in 1997 on the TV3 network.

She is also known for having written the book Yo Acuso with fellow journalist Jesús Locampos which critiques the tabloid press.

She was born in Ourense, Spain in 1951 and at the age of three moved to Madrid where she was raised.

She starred alongside Jordi González on the TV3 program Les 1000 and one in 1997.