“Many would like to host a program like BLN”: Eduardo Andrade and Karin Barreiro reveal all the surprises of the competition reality show

Not much is left for the screen Gama vision be the television house broadcasting the explosive return of BLN. He reality competition, which was previously part of channel one, Ecuadorian television is taken over again under a new duo: Eduardo Andrade and Karin Barreiro.

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BLN returns to the screen after three years, it was on the air from 2014 to 2020 on Channel One. At the time, Barreiro animated the space together with Carlos José Matamoros; while Andrade had shared the driving with Ángela Orellana.

Barreiro confesses that when he found out that Andrade would be his running mate, he felt great expectations and fear. “When you work with someone new, you enter an uncertain world”. Comments had come from Andrade which he today describes as wrong. “He is an exact example that you don’t always have to believe everything they tell you. He is fantastic, he acts like a real gentleman, he has conquered me as a partner”, explains.

“A lot of times I have that reputation that I hoard, that I don’t let people talk, but the people who work with me realize I’m the complete opposite,” admits for his part Andrade.

Andrade describes herself as a non-competitive person. “What excites me is announcing a competition.” While Barreiro claims to be the opposite. “Everything in my life is based on constant competition, I am very strategic”. Their different ways of being manage to achieve a balanced combination that complements each other, based on mutual trust.

the ex girl reality She says she is proud to be making an animation again reality if BLN where she feels she can be herself. “While many won’t admit it, many would like to encourage a program like BLN, because it is a program with professional heads who always lead this project to success”, there stands that.

Barreiro cites age as one of the challenges animating a competition program entails. “Often we are almost the same age as our competitors and that creates confusion or makes it harder to earn respect,” declares and acknowledges that as a driver she also had to act as a ‘psychologist, mom and dad’.

Andrade, on the other hand, sees it as a return to a “toxic relationship.” “Television is like that, you love it, you hate it, but you can’t help it.”

the dynamics

Shortly after the small screen premiere, they assure that this new era of BLN comes with big surprises and new challenges that test each member’s resistance.

The program will be produced for the first time in the Ecuadorian capital Quito. “That fills us with emotion… we have been to Quito several times and people are proud that we are going to raise the giant of Gama that they love so much”

after a to pour nationally, 24 participants from several regions of Ecuador were selected. There are some surprises ahead, but they don’t rule out the return of characters from the previous seasons.

And the biggest novelty will be the blue house, with a circuit of 50 cameras, swimming pool and 12 rooms. With this they close one direct transmission 24/7.

a script

Suppose everything is scripted, they do not deny it, what they do assure is that the dynamics of the program flow naturally, just like the romances that the participants themselves decide to present. But Andrade confirms that it also tries to preserve the image of each of the participants. “Many times we have had to control reality”, says the communicator, referring to altercations or delicate and private situations that happen behind the scenes.

“I see programs for a minute that cause so much harm to people judgement”, he notes.

In this it agrees Marie Joanne Paviccontent director BLN. “It’s one thing to generate judgement, another is the generation of morbidity and another thing is to expose personal life or something that this person will regret later. The fight lasts 10 minutes, but the repercussion lasts a lifetime.” think.

The concept of a ‘reality show’

In Ecuador de reality show They were welcomed by many viewers and scorned by others, who referred to these programs with derogatory terms such as “trash television.”

Shame, criticism and discredit are usually the B-side of these types of programs. “I’ve never been ashamed to be in one reality, to have been a boyreality because i know who i am…so I don’t know why there are many who are ashamed and then dance, many who criticize and finally one reality, That’s why you never have to talk about the programs”, expresses Andrade.

Singers, actors and communicators have emerged from the various competition programs as Denisse Angulo, Jorge Heredia, Jorge Urrutia, Emma Guerrero, Andreina Bravo, among other things. “It’s the hotbed of talent,” says Pavic.

Premiere

There’s no specific release date, but production expects it to happen in less than a month. BLN airs from 9 p.m. to 11 p.m., Monday through Friday on Gamavision.