Gisela Valcárcel

Sonia Mercedes Gisela Valcárcel Álvarez (born 26 January 1963) is a Peruvian television hostess, actress, and businesswoman. She owns and manages the Amarige Beauty Salons & Spas in Lima. She is the director of women's magazines ''Gisela'' and ''Amarige''. She also runs her own television production company called GV Productions ('' El Show de los sueños (Peru)'', '' América Hoy'', '' El Gran Show)''.

Early life

Valcárcel was born on 26 January 1963. She is the daughter of Jorge Valcárcel and Teresa Álvarez. She studied at ''Institución Educativa Teresa González de Fanning''.

Valcárcel was a minor when she became pregnant with her boyfriend Jorge Pozo. Once her daughter Ethel was born, Valcárcel started working as a secretary at a car company and was hired as an extra for theater performances.

Career

A she was working as a part-time receptionist on Panamerican televisión, channel 5, she publicly kissed the Venezuelan singer Oscar de León live on Peruvian television, she instantly launched her career. She started as a comic actress and a dancer ("vedette") in the programs ''Risas y Salsa'' and ''La gran Revista''.

In 1987, Panamericana Televisión proposed conducting a Peruvian version of ''Hello Susana'', which would be named "Alo Gisela". Valcárcel then became the queen of daytime television on Peruvian TV for several years during the late '80s and early '90s. Her guests have been famous Latin American stars such as Chayanne, Julio Iglesias, Luis Miguel, Guillermo Dávila, Ricardo Montaner, Shakira, María Antonieta de las Nieves, Isabel Pantoja, José Luis Rodríguez, Menudo, Ricky Martin, Thalía, Paulina Rubio, Rocío Dúrcal, and Paloma San Basilio. Her TV shows were always very popular due to her interaction with the audiences, including phone conversations on TV and offering advice to the audience, especially housewives. At the same time, she founded "Amarige Salon & Urban Spa", a beauty parlor.

Gisela Valcárcel simultaneously hosted Saturday nighttime television shows in the late nineties and early 2000, including a local version of '' Big Brother'' named ''La Casa de Gisela''.

Her latest project is a local version of ''Bailando por un sueño'' in franchise with Mexican TV station Televisa. In 2008, she suspended the magazine production of ''Gisela'' to work on Los Reyes de la Pista (Perú). In February 2009, she unveiled a new TV project: '' El Show de los Sueños'', in a franchise with Televisa. In 2010, she hosted '' El Gran Show''. In 2012, she hosted '' Operación Triunfo'', the Peruvian version of ''Star Academy''. However, in August she decided to return to the dance reality show ''El Gran Show''.

Her company Espíritu y GV Producciones produced the mini series '' Llauca'' which premiered in 2021.

Controversy

She was involved in a political scandal when a video of her with José Francisco Carreño Crousillat and Vladimiro Montesinos was released. The footage shows that Montesinos informed Valcárcel of measures to be taken to prevent the distribution of a book (''La Señito'' by Carlos Vidal) that reveals intimate aspects of her life. This was denounced as an offense against public administration. A lawsuit was not filed since the judge dismissed the complaint and acquitted the parties involved of all charges.

Personal life

On 10 June 1995, she married the soccer player Roberto Martínez Vera-Tudela. After some years, the couple divorced.

During the political scandal, Valcárcel also began a personal spiritual search that took her to India, where she met some religious leaders, including Sathya Sai Baba, and in the U.S. Deepak Chopra.

In 2006, after six years of romance, she married the Peruvian architect Javier Carmona. The couple separated shortly after the marriage.

She had a relationship with Jorge Pozo, with whom she had a daughter, Ethel Pozo, who was born in 1980.

Publications

In 2005 her autobiography, ''My Name is Gisela'', was published by Santillana Group. In it, she gives an account of her life from childhood, including her beginnings as a star and her coming to television as hostess of the program ''Aló Gisela''.

Appearances

As hostess

* "Aló Gisela" (1987–1992) midday show on Panamericana Televisión Channel 5
* "Gisela en America" (1993-1994) midday show on América Televisión Channel 4
* "Así es Gisela" (1995) night show on Panamericana Televisión Channel 5
* "Gisela en América" (1996–1997) midday show on América Televisión Channel 4
* "Gisela contigo" (1998) midday show on Red Global Channel 13
* "Aló Gisela" (2000) midday show on Panamericana Televisión Channel 5
* "Gisela" (2001) night show on Panamericana Televisión Channel 5
* "Gisela" (2002) night show on Frecuencia Latina Channel 2
* "La casa de Gisela" (2003) night show on Frecuencia Latina Channel 2
* "Siempre Gisela" (2005) night show on Frecuencia Latina Channel 2
* "Bailando por un sueño" (2008) night show on Panamericana Televisión Channel 5
* " Los Reyes de la Pista" (2008) night show on Panamericana Televisión Channel 5
* El Show de los sueños (2009) night show on América Televisión Channel 4
* " El Gran Show" (2010) night show on America Television Channel 4

Public shows

* Teletón 2008–2010

In theatre

* La mujer del año - Teatro Canout
* "EL SUBMARINO" (1999)
* '' The Vagina Monologues'' (2010)

Films

*''Tarata'' (2008)

Awards

References

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1963 births
Living people
Mass media people from Lima
Peruvian women in business
Peruvian women writers
Peruvian film actresses
Peruvian television actresses
Peruvian vedettes
Peruvian television presenters
Peruvian women television presenters
Magazine founders