Journalist Jesús Quintero dies at the age of 82

The presenter and scriptwriter Jesús Quintero, known as ‘The crazy man on the hill’ for the radio program he presented with that name, He died this Monday at the age of 82 in Ubrique (Cádiz), according to ABC and confirmed by his family.

The journalist has died in the Nuestra Señora de los Remedios residence, where he was admitted in early September to receive care and treatment for his health problems.

According to the aforementioned media, Quintero went to bed to rest after eating this Monday and did not wake up. He suffered from a respiratory condition and He was recently operated on for heart disease at the Juan Ramón Jiménez Hospital in Huelva.

His family has expressed in a statement that “during these last months, he has fought with courage and love to improve his health, supported by his family and by the best professional team of the Residencia Nuestra Señora de los Remedios de Ubrique”.

And they add: “From there, he has said goodbye to life with gratitude and peace, being an example for all of us. Moved by his loss, we want to thank the infinite expressions of affection received from all of Spanish society, and especially from all his colleagues by profession, that of communicator, which he defended until the end of his days with passion and honesty. He died resting, in peace, perhaps already on top of his hill”.

Radio and television presenter and scriptwriter, Jesús Rodríguez Quintero was born in San Juan del Puerto (Huelva), on August 18, 1940, and throughout his career in the media he has conducted thousands of interviews, many of them with great repercussions, like the one he did to Pasionaria or Rafael Escobedo.

In his beginnings, he was an actor, working in Andalusia representing Shakespeare in the town squares; he was also a manager, a facet with which he made guitarist Paco de Lucía known.

The journalist Jesús Quintero and his interviews They starred in much of 90s television. With its intimate atmosphere, its mastery of silences and its particular way of asking, they hooked thousands of Spaniards. Quintero managed to make the most famous people uncomfortable with his surprising questions.

Some political figures also passed through his table receiving questions to which they were not accustomed. The peculiar personality of the journalist gave rise to a strange complicity with some of his guests and His questions generated somewhat picturesque situations.