After 88 years of experience, Xavier López, better known as ‘Chabelo’, passed away on March 25 due to “abdominal complications”, news that devastated millions of fans.

This was announced by the relatives of the actor from ‘En familia con Chabelo’, a television program that marked the childhood and youth of a large part of the Mexican population in 48 years and 2463 broadcasts. .

The late actor Xavier López, known as ‘Chabelo’.

Due to his advanced age, many have classified him in the category of ‘immortals’, and they also remember him for feats such as the moment when he almost went to war, and even to the Olympic Games.

How much wealth is “Chabelo”? She is his wife, a Cuban dancer who accompanied him for 54 years of his life, together with the three children they had.

Those were the adventures of Chabel

Contrary to popular belief, Chabelo, a native of Chicago, USA, was also an expert in Greco-Roman wrestling and at the age of 17 won the national competition and qualified for the 1952 Olympics, although he did not attend. due to lack of funds.

Xavier López, better known as ‘Chabelo’, in his beginnings on television Photo: Chabel’s official page on Facebook

Since he never renounced his nationality, at the age of 18 he was recruited by the American army to participate in the Korean War.

This battle lasted only three years and, despite serving at an army base in San Diego, he never got to fight on the front lines, as reported by Telemundo.

Chabelo said goodbye to ‘En familia’ yesterday

Xavier López’s ideal career was medicine, but he started working as an assistant to television host Ramiro Gamboa, who asked the young man to read a joke in one of his shows.

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This will be the moment in which his well-known nickname will be born, since the joke was about a father and son, who were called “Chabelo” and whose voice the man interpreted in a childish way.

The actor, who lived most of his life in Mexico, was awarded the Guinness World Record in 2012 as the longest-serving child driver.

And that’s not counting his record as the actor who played the character for the longest time, in his case Chabel for 57 years.

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