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Early Monday morning, on social networks, a video began to circulate with the moment that the Hollywood Film Academy gave the name of Jamie Lee Curtis as the winner of the Oscar for best supporting actress. In that video you could see Angela Basset, another of the nominees, not receiving the defeat with too much joy. Quite the opposite to Orestes Barbero, the contestant of Pasapalabra who last night saw how, after 360 program, 2,272,000 euros escaped from his hands.

The highest jackpot in the history of Pasapalabra was finally won by Rafa Castaño. Fair and deserved victory. What the Sevillian did by solving the 25 letters of El Rosco of the contest had not been done by anyone in the history of the program. Yes, Rafa Castaño has been a feat, but what about Orestes Barbero's feat? "Do not feel sorry for me", was the first phrase he managed to link after the victory of his opponent, but above all, and there is the big difference, of his friend.

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Rafa Castaño wins the biggest jackpot of Pasapalabra after completing El Rosco

  • Writing: ESTHER MUCIENTES Madrid

Rafa Castaño wins the biggest jackpot of Pasapalabra after completing El Rosco

How much does the Treasury take from the Pasapalabra boat? Rafa Castaño will have to pay more than Orestes

  • Writing: ESTHER MUCIENTES Madrid

How much does the Treasury take from the Pasapalabra boat? Rafa Castaño will have to pay more than Orestes

We are not going to repeat the records that these two contestants have pulverized because between the two they have surpassed all. Nor are we going to enter the war of 'Orestes should have taken it' or 'Orestes deserved it more'. The battle between Rafa and Orestes could not be more even. What one did not do, the other did, what one did not overcome was overcome by the other, and vice versa. And we're not going to go into that it was unfair or that there was tongo. It was not unfair, nor was it foolish. And if anyone is still thinking at this point, it is that last night they did not see the reaction of Orestes Barbero.

Of course, the character of Orestes is closer than that of Rafa Castaño, of course it is more sensitive or, at least, more emotional, of course it takes more to the spectators, but it is that El Rosco de Pasapalabra and the boat are not achieved by falling better. They are achieved by studying, they are achieved by enduring, they are achieved by dedicating hours and hours. And this has been done by both of them. Why if Orestes celebrated the victory even more than the winner, if he was the first to say that what Rafa had done was "unappealable", do the others have to rise against defenders of what does not need defense?

What Orestes Barbero showed last night is what Rafa Castaño said as soon as he won, that Orestes "is the best guy who has passed through here, the best contestant and also an uncle who makes himself loved." Orestes is a good person, period. And good people are caught when things happen like losing the biggest pot of Pasapalabra after almost two years competing and reacting by saying this: "Every moment with you has been pure encouragement, pure joy. Do not feel sorry for me, I have a good accumulated money -more than 210,000 euros-, which is a nice little bottle, I have the following years resolved, there is no shame with this. "

But it wasn't just these words, it was all. It was like when Rafa Castaño was proclaimed the winner, and the confetti began to fall from the sky and Roberto Leal went for the winner and Rafa and Orestes melted into an embrace, Orestes wanted to get away from the plane all the time. If it were not for Roberto Leal grabbing him again and again by the arm and trying to place him next to Rafa, Orestes would have disappeared into the nebula of victory. He didn't want to steal the limelight from his friend, he didn't want to be the protagonist of anything, but he had to be. This is the feat of Orestes Barbero, that is why he has won the hearts of so many people, that is why the tragedy of this victory is that Orestes Barbero will no longer be in Pasapalabra.

"I, when a reasonable time passes, 4 or 5 years, I do not know how my life will be at that moment, I hope to have the opportunity and some special to return," he told Roberto Leal laughing. And it is the phrase that serves to silence all those who cry out because Orestes Barbero can not continue competing in Pasapalabra. It is that Orestes is fair and sincere even for this.

The rules of the show are that when one contestant takes the pot, the other contestant also leaves the show. Of course, with Orestes it hurts more than with any other! Of course, it would be wonderful if this afternoon Orestes sat down again on the set of Pasapalabra! But if this happened, this would be an injustice, for him and for the new contestant who occupied Rafa's chair.

Moment in which Rafa Castaño takes the historic boat of PasapalabraANTENA 3

Why doesn't Orestes continue in Pasapalabra?

If Pasapalabra has this rule, it is because it makes perfect sense. If Orestes Barbero competed again, he would do so for an initial jackpot of 6,000 euros. Going from playing for 2,272,000 to playing for 6,000 euros after 360 programs, is not fair, whichever way you look. And neither is it for the one who arrives new to the program and has to face the man who has competed the most programs in the history of Pasapalabra. And finally, because of Orestes' words, he wants a break, he wants to get back to normal, he wants to rest.

Because when we sit down every afternoon to watch Pasapalabra what we see is two contestants respond to the musical track, the crossword, the hidden words and El Rosco, but we do not see, no matter how much they repeat it, the work behind it, the dedication, the effort, the sacrifice, what they abandon or leave aside for Pasapalabra . For the one who takes the boat, and a boat like last night, all that vanishes when you win. For those who run out of it, all that is still in the backpack. And Orestes' backpack is probably the heaviest ever in Pasapalabra.

Therefore, the feat of Orestes is not only not to have taken the boat and to be happier than the one who has taken it. The feat of Orestes is not having taken him and having to carry the weight of a contest like Pasapalabra and not losing his smile, and not stop getting excited for the friend, and not forgetting that the protagonist was Rafa, although he would have deserved as much as Sevilla that the confetti had fallen on him.

If Pasapalabra made last night a 37.5% share of screen -nor the great football finals- and if Pasapalabra has managed during the 197 programs of Rafa and Orestes together to make an average of more than 29% share is because Orestes and Rafa, Rafa and Orestes They have been much more than two TV contestants. Beyond the fact that they have made television history, beyond the media plane, the feat of these two people has been to become a member of many families and many houses.

What Rafa did not have, Orestes had, and what Orestes did not have, Rafa had. Not even by betting would have found two contestants who also fit in and offered everything you want to see on television.

I can't resist telling some of the stories behind Pasapalabra. The story of my father, who yesterday afternoon asked me not to tell him who had won because he wanted to see it live. The story of the mother of my partner Sara Polo, fan of Orestes, but "reconciled" with Rafa. The story of a mother-in-law who canceled a dinner party in order to watch the show. The story of my in-laws, who every afternoon scheduled their walk to arrive on time to see the program and that last night, while she asked me to tell her the name of the winner, he begged me to keep quiet.

The story of so many people who, although they were anxiously waiting for one of them to take the Pasapalabra boat, could not help but be sad for not having them in the program again. That is the feat of Orestes, but it is also the feat of Rafa, Roberto Leal, the team behind the cameras, Antena 3, the production company ... This is the feat of television.

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