María José Campanario’s health has once again made the news. The dentist was admitted again, apparently, when she was visibly more recovered. Campanario has not confirmed anything about this health bump. These were not going to be easy months. Her husband, Jesulín, was recovering from a microinfarction that left all his loved ones very worried. The bullfighter did not suffer any consequences but he did explain that he was going to undergo medical tests to find out what had happened and why this failure had occurred.
The couple has been married for more than twenty years. Its history is well known. Jesulín had ended his relationship with Belén Esteba when he met María José Campanario. Little was invested in that romance at that time. However, they have formed a large family and their relationship remains strong and current. And their wedding was not only the wedding of the year but also the subject of criticism, reproaches and many, many comments.
The wedding of Jesulín de Ubrique and María José Campanario
In 1990, Jesulín de Ubrique He was one of the young bullfighters with the greatest national projection. That same year He acquired his first property for about 90 million pesetasa pasture of 300 hectares in the mountains of Cádiz which he named Ambitions and in which a spectacular mansion was built. And here he lived with his parents and siblings until, on July 27, 2002, he married María José Campanarioa young 23-year-old pathological anatomy laboratory assistant, originally from Castellón de la Plana, and He decided to settle with her in a chalet in the nearby El Bosque urbanization. which he had bought from his driver.
The magazine Hello! was in charge of publishing the exclusive of the long-awaited wedding, which was celebrated in the chapel of San Francisco de Paula, at the Benazuza Hacienda. In the very extensive report dedicated to the matter it was explained that The couple had met fifteen months earlier.in a cafeteria in Cádiz and through a friend from Jesulín. “I feel, I notice that María José loves me and that she is in love with me. She is a woman who puts her heart before anything and is not interested at all, and this is something that you have to look at a lot.“He confessed about a woman who ended up conquering him for the care she gave him when in September 2001 he had to spend a month in the hospital after suffering a spectacular car accident that almost cost him his life.
During the wedding ceremony, scheduled for eight thirty in the afternoon and held behind closed doors to prevent any reporter from exploiting the exclusiveMaría José captured almost all eyes with a classic cut ivory natural silk dressdesigned by Antonio Ardonhead couturier of Rocío Jurado. “With the same ritual as if he were going to fight and helped by his swordsman. Jesulín dressed as a groom in the same room where, centuries ago, they spent the night Ferdinand III the Saint and his son Alfonso X the Wise“, it was told about an event attended by several well-known faces such as the bullfighter Fran Rivera Ordóñez or motorcyclists Sete Gibernau and Alex Criville.
A menu by Ferrán Adriá
“There was silence when Jesus, giving his arm to his mother and godmother, Carmen Bazan“He approached walking slowly towards the church,” read the main chronicle of the event. “There was emotion on the bullfighter’s face. your daughter [fruto de su relación con la colaboradora de televisión y empresaria Belén Esteban]not far from him. Long minutes had to pass until María José finally appeared with her father and godfather, José Campanario Capa […]. Jesus received her with a kiss at the foot of the altar. ‘How handsome!’ she exclaimed when she saw him. After the ceremony, the obligatory congratulations before posing for the memory.”
The banquet, also held at the Hacienda Benazuza, It had a menu served by the prestigious Catalan chef Ferrán Adriá and composed of tortillas, tipillitas, grapefruit soup, lobster gazpacho, sirloin and tiramisu. After a few days, the journalist Beatriz Cortazar would point out that the wedding had been “anything but glamorous. The sweat of the attendees was relieved among the ladies with fans (the thing with the plastic tents must have been deadly) while the gentlemen did something that is never recommended at these events: leave their jackets on the chairs and continue the party in their shirt sleeves.”
Since that night, The couple has had three children and has faced all kinds of vicissitudes: since the cold war between Jesulín and his ex Belén —who always reproached him for his lack of interest and involvement in raising children—, even the health problems of the Valencian —which suffers from fibromyalgiaa chronic and disabling illness for which she had to be admitted from time to time—or the aforementioned troubles with justice—in 2006 she was arrested during ‘Operation Karlos’ against Social Security fraud, and in the subsequent trial held in 2011, both she and her mother were sentenced to one year and 11 months in prison for the crime of falsifying an official document and another of attempted fraud.
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Last September, our protagonists They dressed as bride and groom again to recreate the cover of their wedding in their main magazinewhich they have sometimes resorted to to increase the zeros in their checking account. When the journalist on duty asked them for the secret to remaining “so great” two decades after the event, both responded in unison: “Laugh a lot together.” That and having been able to keep the flame of passion alive, of course.
“I know that the day I put on a nightie I end up crucified“, she commented on the matter. “Two years ago it meant… a baby. People normally have a month of vacation. I can’t have a month’s vacation, because my husband has cows and bulls to feed every day and he has to go to his field and see his things. So, we take three, four or five days, a very short thing, but the days we take we enjoy to the fullest. And then came the third.”