Nico Abad (Madrid, 1970) has been for years one of the most recognized (and controversial) voices in sport in our country. It has been more than a decade since the sports journalistwhich had previously appeared on Canal+, Disney and Cuatro, became the one chosen to narrate the Motorcycle World Cup on Telecincoa decision that at the time was not without controversy. In fact, his time at Mediaset brought him a wave of criticism from viewers.
Almost 10 years after that, the television presenter’s life is very different from the one he led then. After the courts ruled that he had been unfairly dismissed by the company in 2020 and sentenced Mediaset to pay him a great compensation For this reason, the Madrid native decided completely stay away from the media conventional, although not from the world of sports.
We review everything you need to know about Nico Abad’s personal life and his work after definitively leaving the world of television.
His marriage to a well-known journalist and his children
Few details are known about Nico Abad’s life outside the media, as he has always tried to keep his most familiar side away from the cameras. It has emerged that the presenter specialized in MotoGP had a relationship for several years with Rocio Morafounder and CEO of Nur Botanicals, and her marriage to the sports journalist from Movistar+ and COPE Monica Marchantefrom which he separated years later.
With the latter, in 2004 the journalist had two twin children, Lucas and Marina20 years old (has one more child from another relationship). The boy, like his father, has a true devotion to sport, especially to the world of cycling, where he has competed for years. For her part, Marina, who studies Interior Design, He combines his studies with his musical career and he has just released his first single as a solo singer, something his two parents have boasted about.
His judicial confrontation after his unfair dismissal at Mediaset
One of the work connections that has given Nico Abad the most professional income has been the one he maintained for almost a decade with the Mediaset group. The presenter, who joined the network in 2011, worked at Deportes Cuatro for several years and also broadcast the races of the World Motorcycle Championship in this same chain.
In 2016, after the departure of Manolo Lama, he took over the vacant presenter position on The Manolos de Cuatroalong with Manu Carreño. However, this contractual union ended in 2020 when the chain decided terminate the contract with Nico Abad by breach of contract.
According to the company at the time, the journalist had signed several contracts with Mediaset España and some of its subsidiaries “to perform the functions of presenter, commentator, host, collaborator and generally provide services related to said activities.” These contracts specified some exclusivity clauses and the obligation on the part of Nico Abad to ask Mediaset for permission to carry out certain commercial actionssomething that he would have failed to comply with by participating in advertising campaigns for Ford, Volkswagen, the film ‘El Plan’ and in a virtual meeting of Ford and the Spanish Red Cross without the express consent of your company.
After receiving the news of his dismissal, the journalist took Mediaset to court for unfair dismissalwho ended up agreeing with Abad. At that time, the court determined that Abad’s journalistic work was not incompatible with activities outside the media group and sentenced the media company to pay compensation to the journalist of 279,686.07 euros.
Nico Abad’s current life after moving away from television
Nico Abad’s life has changed radically since his sudden departure from Mediaset and the subsequent judicial mess in which he found himself immersed after his dismissal from the company. That is why, since then, it has decided focus on other areas away from televisionwhere he worked for many decades, since he was barely 20 years old. «I have been off TV since 2020and I have reconciled myself with television,” he said in an interview for ‘VerTele!’. Far away are such well-known projects as ‘The Day After’, ‘The Disney Channel League’, ‘Deportes’ or ‘Lo + Plus’, which made him one of the best-known faces in the sports world, or ‘La Hora Wiki’, together with Raquel Sánchez Silva, who managed to relaunch her career in a very different sector.
Now, the journalist prefers to move away from conventional media to direct his own project within the sports field, which has allowed him to have his own style. That is why in recent years we have seen him closely associated with Twitch and YouTube platformswhere he exceeds 89,000 followers and where he boasts of publishing «the best MotoGP content on the networks, with interviews and debates». Furthermore, in 2022 it also passed through the kitchens of ‘MasterChef Celebrity’where he gained many die-hard followers.
Despite his intention to stay out of the television cameras, where he was a controversial character in the motor world for years, Abad has not been spared from controversies in your day to day life. A few months ago, the presenter starred in a popular exchange of reproaches with Ernest Riverasthe usual voice of MotoGP in Spain, during the broadcast of the Olympic Games. At that time, the man from Madrid harshly criticized his professional colleague for his way of narrating the queen category, something to which he did not hesitate to respond harshly: «I was disrespected Now the truth is on this Nico’s Twitch […] “He has been a permanently trending topic for the bad in his stories and I have never in 15 years,” said the narrator, who did not hesitate to describe Abad as “bad partner” and “bad person”.