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Drama erupts after half-naked woman photobombs broadcast of Spanish celebrity journalist | |
(about 8 hours later) | |
Spanish journalist Alfonso Merlos is in hot water after a beauty wearing only a top walked into the background of an interview he was broadcasting from home. His jilted girlfriend dubbed the sordid affair “shameful.” | Spanish journalist Alfonso Merlos is in hot water after a beauty wearing only a top walked into the background of an interview he was broadcasting from home. His jilted girlfriend dubbed the sordid affair “shameful.” |
Merlos is a journalist, model and celebrity in his native Spain, but now his tangled private life is being torn apart by the Spanish-speaking media. | Merlos is a journalist, model and celebrity in his native Spain, but now his tangled private life is being torn apart by the Spanish-speaking media. |
He was speaking as a guest on journalist Javier Negre’s ‘State of Alarm’ YouTube channel last Friday, when a semi-naked woman casually sauntered into the frame, causing Negre’s jaw to drop. | He was speaking as a guest on journalist Javier Negre’s ‘State of Alarm’ YouTube channel last Friday, when a semi-naked woman casually sauntered into the frame, causing Negre’s jaw to drop. |
It gets worse: The woman is not Merlos’s partner, former Big Brother contestant Marta Lopez, but Alexia Rivas, a reporter with Spanish TV show ‘Socialite.’ | |
Quarantined social media users pounced, quickly dubbing the scandal ‘Merlos Place’ – a play on words referencing ‘Melrose Place,’ the American soap opera. Merlos’ modeling shots on Instagram were flooded with insults and jeers, while Twitter and YouTube overflowed with memes. | |
Lopez – the scorned lover in the scenario straight out of a telenovela – weighed in soon afterwards. She told the Spanish tabloids that she’s currently going through a rather painful breakup with Merlos, and found the whole affair “unpleasant” and “shameful.” Merlos has apologized to her publicly and scolded journalists for not separating his professional and personal life. | |
Accidental reveals of people’s private lives are becoming more frequent during the Covid-19 pandemic, as many formerly slick media professionals are working from home along with billions of people who find themselves under some kind of lockdown regime. | Accidental reveals of people’s private lives are becoming more frequent during the Covid-19 pandemic, as many formerly slick media professionals are working from home along with billions of people who find themselves under some kind of lockdown regime. |
Such stories have ranged from a cat meowing loudly during a Brexit conference call between UK officials on Monday, to a Ukrainian footballer getting called out by his ex-wife – with whom he is quarantined – for bringing up threesomes with curious fans, in a scenario curiously similar to that in which Merlos finds himself now. | |
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