María Isabel Rábago Ríos (born 2 April 1974) is a Spanish gossip-magazine journalist and TV panelist who also worked as Head of Media Communications for the Partido Popular in the Community of Madrid.

Biography

She was from a Cantabrian family; she was born by accident in

Ferrol Ferrol may refer to: Places * Ferrol (comarca), a coastal region in A Coruña, Galicia, Spain * Ferrol, Spain, industrial city and naval station in Galicia, Spain ** Racing de Ferrol, an association football club * Ferrol, Romblon, municipality in ...

and grew up from a very young age in

El Astillero El Astillero (English: "The Shipyard") is a town and municipality in the province and autonomous community of Cantabria, northern Spain. It is near the provincial capital of Santander, Cantabria, Santander, and it is known for its shipyard, and for ...

. In 1993, she was crowned Miss Cantabria, an honor she held that year in the

Miss Spain The Miss Spain (Spanish: Miss España) is a national beauty pageant in Spain that selects Spanish representatives to compete in three of the big four major international beauty pageants: the Miss Universe, Miss World, and Miss International co ...

contest. She began her journalistic career at the Korpa Agency, but soon after began to collaborate and present several heart and current affairs programs in various media outlets, including: TVE,

Telemadrid Telemadrid is a public television station in the Community of Madrid, Spain, the flagship channel of the regional public broadcaster Radio Televisión Madrid (RTVM). It began its broadcast on 2 May 1989. History First years Telemadrid was cr ...

Telecinco Telecinco is a Spanish free-to-air television channel operated by Mediaset España. The channel was previously known as Tele 5, because it had first begun its experimental transmissions on 10 March 1989, and a year later, it was officially laun ...

Antena 3 Antena 3 may refer to: *Antena 3 (Portugal), a national radio channel produced by the Portuguese public broadcasting entity Rádio e Televisão de Portugal *Antena 3 (Romania), a Romanian television channel owned by Intact Media Group *Antena 3 (Spa ...

. She has also worked for print media such as ¡Qué me dices! or El Mundo. Apart from her professional face in the media, she has also worked as a writer. She is the author of two books: ''"Las ltimas cortesanas"'' and ''"La Pantoja, Julián & CIA: asalto a Marbella"''. In 2015, she participated in ''

Supervivientes ''Survivor Spain'' (In Spanish: ''Supervivientes'') is the Spanish version of the popular reality series ''Survivor''. This version of the show has aired on Spanish broadcast channels Telecinco, from 2000 to 2001 and 2006 to the present, Antena 3, ...

'', being the third expelled after 28 days on the island. Since then, she has worked in various

Mediaset España Grupo Audiovisual Mediaset España Comunicación, S.A.U. (formerly Gestevisión Telecinco, S.A. and Mediaset España Comunicación, S.A.) is a Spanish media company, controlled by the Italian-based company MFE – MediaForEurope N.V., which i ...

programs such as ''Ya es mediodía'', ''

Viva la vida (, ; ) is a song by British rock band Coldplay. It was written by all members of the band for their fourth album, ''Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends'' (2008). The lyrics contain historical and Christian references (King Louis XVI of ...

'' or ''La casa fuerte''. In 2018, she joined politics as head of communication and media in the Partido Popular of

Madrid Madrid ( ; ) is the capital and List of largest cities in Spain, most populous municipality of Spain. It has almost 3.5 million inhabitants and a Madrid metropolitan area, metropolitan area population of approximately 7 million. It i ...

, forming part of the Deputy Secretary of Communication led by

Isabel Díaz Ayuso Isabel Natividad Díaz Ayuso (; born 17 October 1978) is a Spanish politician and journalist serving as the president of the Community of Madrid since 2019. She is also the president of the People's Party of the Community of Madrid since 2022 ...

and being in charge of carrying out the relationship with the media. In the position, she remained until October 2019. In September 2021, she signed on as a contestant on '' Secret Story: La casa de los secretos''.

Television career

Published books

* *

References

External links

Isabel Rábago
on

Instagram Instagram is an American photo sharing, photo and Short-form content, short-form video sharing social networking service owned by Meta Platforms. It allows users to upload media that can be edited with Social media camera filter, filters, be ...

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rábago, Isabel 1974 births Living people Pontifical University of Salamanca alumni Spanish women television journalists People's Party (Spain) politicians Politicians from Cantabria Writers from Cantabria Spanish women television personalities