''La Fan'', is an American

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produced by

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, is a story written by Marcela Citterio and inspired by an idea of history

Angélica Vale Angélica María Vale Hartman (born November 11, 1975), known professionally as Angélica Vale, is a Mexican and American actress, known also as the daughter of Angélica María, "La Novia de Mexico" (Mexico's Sweetheart), and as the daughter o ...

. The story revolves around the life of a famous

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actor and his faithful follower who is his number one fan. The series stars

as Valentina, Juan Pablo Espinosa as Lucas, and

Scarlet Ortiz Scarlet Ortiz (born Hevis Scarlet Ortiz Pacheco) March 12, 1974 is a Venezuelan actress and beauty pageant titleholder. She is known for her role in telenovelas. Biography Scarlet started her acting career in a children's show called Nubeluz i ...

as Salma. On January 12, 2017, the first chapter of the telenovela was published with a duration of 20 minutes as a special before the premiere.

Plot summary

Vale (

) is a cheerful, humble, simple woman, and a fanatic of a soap opera actor, the famous Lucas Duarte ( Juan Pablo Espinosa). The lives of Vale and Lucas cross one day, by what they call destiny, luck or magic. While she is hidden inside a giant Pizza outfit, handing out flyers of the place where she works, she saves her beloved actor's life, but in reality, everything is part of one of the scenes of the telenovela. That is the first meeting between Lucas and Vale, but not the only one. Lucas's representative, Gabriel ( Gabriel Porras), comes up with the idea of creating a contest for all his fans and after cheating a little, names Vale the winner. Vale, delighted, has lunch with him and ends up saving his life, now for real. After this Vale becomes his personal assistant and shadow, in other words, his guardian angel. Vale begins to know who Lucas Duarte really is (is hobbies, his defects) but even so, she loves him more and more. Lucas begins to realize who his real fan is...her strength, her light, her brilliance and, in spite of himself, he begins to fall in love with her. But like in every story, there is a dark past, a past that can transform their love into something impossible. Even though neither of them knows, Lucas is the father of Tomás (Emmanuel Perez), the son of Lucia, Vale's friend, who Vale has raised as if it were hers since her friend died. He is the man Vale hates for abandoning her friend. Vale is at a crossroads, she must decide whether to stand up for her deceased friend or to remain what she has always been: the fan.

Cast

Starring

as Valentina Pérez * Juan Pablo Espinosa as Lucas Duarte *

Miguel Varoni Miguel Américo Belloto Gutiérrez (born 11 December 1964), known professionally as Miguel Varoni, is an Argentine Colombian actor, director, and producer. He is married to Colombian actress Catherine Siachoque María Alexandra Catherine Si ...

as Justin Case / El Director *

as Salma Beltrán * Ximena Duque as Adriana Zubizarreta * Jonathan Islas as Diego Castro * Gabriel Porras as Gabriel Bustamante

Also starring

* Omar Germenos as Carlos Zubizarreta * Gloria Peralta as Eloisa Romero * Elsy Reyes as Felicitas * Begoña Narváez as Jessica González *

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as Benicio Torres * Gabriel Rossi as Miguel Castro * Josette Vidal as Miriam del Carmen * Ricardo Kleinbaum as Enrique Julio Gardiazabal / Quique * Lorena de la Garza as Natalia * Gabriel Valenzuela as Nicolás * Silvana Arias as Bárbara Blanco * Maritza Bustamante as Lucía Hernández / Úrsula Molina * Mario Espitia as Agustín Peterlini * Freddy Florez as Roberto Flores / Bob * Roberto Plantier as Dr. Damián Arévalo * Fernando Pacanins as Víctor Carrizo *

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as Rodrigo Gómez * Emmanuel Pérez as Tomás Hernández

Special guest stars

Laura Flores Laura Aurora Flores Heras (born August 23, 1963) is a Mexican actress, hostess and singer. Biography Laura Flores had a hit single "El Alma No Tiene Color" ("The Soul Has No Color"), which was a duet with Marco Antonio Solís taken from the ...

as Paloma *

Daniel Elbittar Daniel Elbittar Villegas (born April 30, 1979) is a Venezuelan actor, model and singer, best known for his work in both Venezuelan and Mexican telenovelas. Career Acting career Elbittar, began his career as an actor in 1998 in the Venezuelan ...

as Leonardo Márquez / El Potro *

Catherine Siachoque María Alexandra Catherine Siachoque Gaete (born 21 January 1972) is a Colombian actress best known for her (mostly villainess) roles in numerous telenovelas. Early life Siachoque was born in Bogota, Colombia. Career Siachoque has appeared i ...

as Isabel *

Lupita Ferrer Lupita Ferrer (born December 6, 1947) is a Venezuelan theater, film and television actress. She is known as a "Queen" of telenovelas and one of the most famous Spanish-speaking telenovela actresses of all time. Biography Ferrer was born as Yola ...

as Silvia * Jorge Luis Pila as El Tuerto *

Jesús Moré Jesús Moré (born 8 March 1979) is a Mexican actor. Born in Mexico and currently resides in Los Angeles, United States. He is an actor graduated from the Centro de Educación Artística of Televisa, he started his career making recurring roles i ...

as Franco Villar *

David Chocarro David Chocarro is an Argentine actor, model and former baseball player. Career Chocarro entered the Mexican market for telenovelas through the front door as part of the cast of '' Los Exitosos Perez''. In this story, David played the womanizi ...

as Ricardo Ernesto / Richard Ernestón * Ligia Petit as Roxana * Angélica María as Valentina Gardiazabal / Mamita *

Adamari López Adamari López Torres (born May 18, 1971) is a Puerto Rican actress known for participating in several Puerto Rican and Mexican soap operas. She was a host on the Telemundo morning show '' Hoy Día'' and its predecessor ''Un Nuevo Día'' for 1 ...

as Carmen Córdoba * Wanda D'Isidoro as Guadalupe "Lupita" * Laura Chimaras as Renata Izaguirre * Eduardo Serrano as Pascual Blanco * Sandra Destenave as Dolores "Lola" D'Alessandro * Fabián Ríos as Guillermo "Willy" del Castillo * Henry Zakka as Dr. Machado *

Fernanda Castillo María Fernanda Castillo García (born 24 March 1982), known as Fernanda Castillo, is a Mexican actress. She is best known for her work in several telenovelas, including her role as Mónica Robles in '' El Señor de los Cielos''. Career Sin ...

as La Parka * José Ramón Blanch as Rogelio Gutiérrez / La Bestia *

Carlos Ponce Carlos Armando Ponce Freyre Jr. (born September 4, 1972) is a Puerto Rican actor, musician, model, and television personality. Ponce began his acting career by participating in Spanish language soap operas for Televisa and Telemundo. Ponce contin ...

as Luis Alberto Fontan * Jorge Bernal as Himself * Ahrid Hannaley as Karina * Dad Dáger as Patricia

Production

The production of the telenovela was confirmed on July 5, 2016, and the production concluded on December 22, 2016. The production is mainly recorded in

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, the first scenes were made in

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. Vale explained that the idea arose as she wanted to pay homage to all her fans and followers of the telenovela ''

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''. The series is an original idea written by

in 2009, which has a promotional video uploaded to

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that same year. The story is adapted by Marcela Citterio based on the idea of Angélica, is directed by

, Claudio Callao and Otto Rodríguez and as executive producers Carmen Cecilia Urbaneja, José Gerardo Guillén and David Posada and as general producer

. Vale said that the series will have a bit of

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format.

Promotion

The first advance of the telenovela was presenting during the event broadcast by

entitled, ''La Fiesta Latina de iHeart Radio''. The telenovela was presented in Natpe the same day they finished the production.

Casting

In May 2016

confirmed her return to the

, after being 10 years away from the dramatic genre. On August 3, 2016, Vale confirmed the participation of Juan Pablo Espinosa as the protagonist of the story.

was chosen as the main villain of the story, and marks the debut of the actress in the network

who besides being the director of the telenovela, his character Justin Case will have the same role of Varoni in the production of the

as it will be a character who works as director, also confirmed the participation of

in the production. Espinosa confirmed through his

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the participation of

in the telenovela, the actress and presenter who was 8 years away from the telenovelas.

Shows cancelled

A total of 114 episodes were confirmed for series. Due to the low rating of primetime that had the series,

canceled the series, despite the number of cliffhangers, and only 54 episodes were programmed to be transmitted.

Ratings

Episodes

The series premiered in

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at 2pm and had a total of 65 episodes, while in its original broadcast had 54 episodes.

Awards and nominations

References

External links

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