Faced with a very complicated week for him, Iker Jiménez He defended himself against those who attacked his program Horizon: “They are asking for my head. If they come after me and want to decapitate me, I’m not going to stand still and watch out for what happens. “I’m not going to attack them, I’m not going to say they’re trash, I’m not going to ask the government to stifle their network or for their heads to come out of the media, but they’re asking it of me.” The Mediaset presenter explained himself on his social networks. Let us remember that, when covering the devastation caused by the DANAa journalist from Horizon, Rubén Gisbert He deliberately smeared himself in mud to appear dirtier during a live connection. Additionally, Iker posted a tweet stating that there were “lots of bodies” in the Bonaire parking lot, when that was not the case. The communicator already apologized from his post but, from other channels, they continued to attack him, which is why the journalist defended himself.
After the aforementioned controversies of Rubén Gisbert and Jiménez’s tweet (which he himself admitted was written in a personal capacity and out of anger over the tragedy in Valencia), many media and public figures from other networks were consulted (Wyoming, Dani Mateo either Ana Pasteurfor example) those who criticized the professional work of the director and presenter of Horizon And Fourth millennium.
In a video published on the social network Miguel Angel Camposjournalist at SER and collaborator of La Sexta, because, according to the Mediaset presenter, “he asked me for my head during prime time”. “Mr. Campos, from the SER, you have to have balls, he said on the air. [el sábado en La Sexta Xplica] “that they would withdraw the program and that since Mediaset did not react, they would call on the Government to remove institutional advertising.”.
However, Iker Jiménez has not given up: “If they come after me and want to decapitate me, I’m not going to stand still and watch what happens to you.. “I’m not going to attack them, I’m not going to say they’re trash, I’m not going to ask the government to stifle their network or for their heads to come out of the media, but they’re asking it of me.”
Against Wyoming: “No one writes to me what I have to say”
The Cuatro presenter also attacked Atresmedia communicators like Wyoming and Dani Mateo: “All the big stars who read, none set foot there, none gave anything to the Valencians, none surrendered his back. I run my program, no one tells me what to say. Unlike millionaire showmen and funny comedians, no one writes to me what I have to say. Those showmans who reads a text and disturbs me. I speak with my heart in my hand, with my errors and my virtues. I don’t have a text written by someone else that tells me what I have to say. “I don’t have scriptwriters, so I don’t operate like that.”
THEY ASK FOR MY HEAD (in competition) and we have coffee
– Iker Jiménez (@navedelmisterio) November 10, 2024
Finally, the presenter of Cuatro denounced that La Sexta did not apologize for a video in which a journalist from the channel declared that “there were bodies” in the Bonaire parking lot: “They called me ‘ the king of hoaxes’ and I find it shocking “If you sue me, you must have a very broad back.”
