The Joy Fair (RTS) was one of the most watched programs on Ecuadorian television in the 1990s, where entertainers stood out from 5 to 7 p.m.: Marco Vinicio Bedoya, mimo digs and actress, model and singer Sonia Villar.

She is the daughter of artist, actress and radio and theater director Elsy Vidal and director and actor Paco Villar. On Channel 4 (RTS) he made his debut, very young, acting out the story of which Little Red Riding Hood in a series that lasted eight months, with scripts by Lucho Gálvez and Toño Cajamarco as the grandmother, according to what was published in Biographical archive of Rodolfo Pérez Pimentel.

The actress in the photo from 2002. Photo: File

But then he went to the United States where his television career took off.

In 1991 he returned to Ecuador and was asked to create a character for him joy fair. She took them to Felita: a popular, Barcelona cheerleader, widely criticized for her strong guayaco accent. She later went to TC Televisión as one of the presenters of the competition program A todo dar. In 2000, it was surprisingly announced that Sonia Villar and her team were going to SíTV for a new program called Con muchas ganas. His co-host was Pablo Ansaldo. His reasons? “I have the right to work with a team with which I feel better and with a good salary.” However, in 2001 he left the country and returned to New York.

He returned only in 2012, when he admitted it the reason he left the country was fear of crime. On that occasion, he held a musical-comedy show at La Posada de las Garzas. Then she said she wanted to return to television. “I miss Ecuador, its people, that beautiful love, that human warmth, and if there is a tempting proposal, I will return without fear.”

Until then, he lived in Miami together with his son Doni Dattoli Villar, who is now married. She had suitors, but she did not think about remarrying. In New York, he worked in a night club and in a variety show. TV, in addition to being part of the cast of two Cuban soap operas.

In 2015, Villar recalled the premiere of the film full throttle with several photos on social media, and then revealed that she was second on camera in the program “because she’s female”, despite most of the segments being hers. They asked him to bring Marco Vinicius Bedoya as a partner in animation, which he succeeded in doing, but he always noticed that the producers were against him, which made him very sad. However, she is sure that she managed to win the public’s favor. In 2022, he received recognition for his career, in Miami.

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