Vicente Valles is a journalist, presenter and assistant director of informative news programs, who has worked on several television networks in Spain, including Telecinco, Antena 3 and Radiotelevisión.
His full name is Vicente Valles Choclan, was born on July 10, 1963 in Madrid, Spain. At present, he is 58 years old, his nationality is purely Spanish, he is 1,67 meters high and he resides in the province of Alcobendas, Madrid.
Who has been your romantic partner?
The love life of this presenter is summarized by his relationship with Angels White, a Spanish entertainer and actress, whom he met through a television program where they both participated as a driving team. And that, after meeting and planning some formal encounters, they fell in love and gave the date of their sacred union.
They both know they got married at the beginning of the 21st century, through a private ceremony. Later, they had a hijo, from which not much information is obtained, since the two characters maintain their personal lives with great discretion.
How did you perform in your studies?
Mainly, she studied primary and secondary education at the “Colegio de Santísima Trinidad de San José de Valederas”, Alcorcón, where her teachers and classmates they admired his acting skills and his clean and fluent vocabulary, thus achieving a total performance and high recognition.
Later, among his merits for advanced studies, stands out his tour of the "Complutense University of Madrid", where he was accredited as degree in journalism and achieved the best average in his section, reaching to graduate with honors for the efforts, struggles and skills expressed in his mention.
how has been his life?
It should be noted that No. many aspects of his private life, because, as mentioned before, this gentleman stands aside with his actions and private information. Likewise, they are aware of their prudence, respect and inclination towards what is correct, so they avoid being the center of entertainment or television problems.
However, it is only known about its professional life and his journey through the different work areas on television, so this work path will be shown below:
His professional beginnings occur in Cadena Ser as collaborator in the programs “Hora 25” and “Hoy por Hoy”.
Then, in 1987 he began to work in the sports section of TVE, where he remained until the heat wave of 1989. Later, he moved to Telemadrid, where he was part of the founding team of its information services.
Also, it was editor of the newspaper "El Nacional" and editor of the 9.30:XNUMX pm newscast, hours presented by the journalist Hilario Pino.
Years later, in 1994 he was hired as newspaper boss "El Nacional" and in 1997 he was named vice principal of Telecinco's information services, a position he carried out for eleven years until he voluntarily retired to develop his new projects and personal challenges.
Also, at this time you are responsible for drive the digitization process of “La redacción”, one of the first complete informative programs that was carried out on a television in Spain.
For the year 1998, it is released as presenter holder of the program "La Mirada Crítica", a daily news program broadcast during the morning hours, which included an in-depth interview with public figures, especially the country's politicians.
Then, in 1999, he was appointed director and presenter of the weekend news for the same production chain with which I had been working previously.
Some time later, after occupying his already established jobs as presenter and director, is responsible for being loved by the audience and maintaining the rating of the space "The critical look", since due to the decline of its original presenter, Montserrat Domínguez in the television channel Antena 3, it is taken into account by the production to continue With the work of the old lady, this happened in 2004 and remained until 2008.
In this same year of initiation in "The Critical Look", he is named vice principal of the program called "La Noche en 24 horas", its characteristic being to deliver true and certified information to viewers, as well as interviews and political debates about the situations with the greatest impact that people needed to know.
During 2011 directed and presented the newscast of the television channel Antena 3, “Noticias” that was broadcast at one in the afternoon to publicize what happened during the day, both nationally and internationally. This work was carried out in substitution of the presenter Roberto Arce, after having gone to the Cuatro television network, with new projects and visions, accompanied by the presenter Mónica Carrillo.
Consecutively, this gentleman continued to climb the world of the news and in 2012 he assumed the driving of the informative "Noticias al día" with the presenter Lourdes Maldonado; couple that was acclaimed by the public due to the power and ease of presentation that both conveyed.
In 2016 he achieved the address and in turn the presentation of the Antena 3 newscast together with the presenter Ana Blanco of TVE and Pedro Piqueras of the Telecinco television network.
Likewise, after five years of giving the news, presents and directs on Antena 3 “Noticias 2” that was broadcast at night, together with the presenter Esther Vaquero, and is also opinion contributor in "Radio 20 Minutes" in "The reason" and finally in "El Confidencial".
Did you have a tour of national politics?
Vicente Valles is a specialist in transmitting insights truthful together with his work team, but another of his strengths is to give the informative face of what in the national politics happens.
In this sense, Valles covered national and international political events, such as the conduct of the elecciones presidenciales of the United States of the year 1992.
Here it is characterized as limpid, neat and ethereal, does not lie, does not discriminate or qualify any political party or situation, but gives a partial opinion of the events and makes it available to people to create their own conclusions.
At the same time, between 2015 and 2016 it was moderator in four debates political of different characters and electoral political parties in Spain; The debates were organized by the "TV Academy" and were broadcast by a large part of the major television networks, as well as radios in Spain and by other sister stations from foreign countries.
This was one of the most significant events of both years, the broadcasts of which sowed a scorching success, with an audience of approximately ten and a half million people.
However, during the pandemic of 2020 and 2021, the presenter has been seen little communicated, but his political and social influence is increasing thanks to all his news coverage against the alliance government of Spain formed by the PSOE-.
Likewise, it stands out as great exponent in the information and is called by institutes to give seminars, courses and talks on driving, rights and regulations, regularly in several universities in Spain, to expand the critical and moderation sense of the new generations of journalism and why not, of the new managers of law and politics.
From television to books?
The knight on display has developed as a great man in the media, characterized in the first place as being independent in politics, but a spokesperson in human rights cases that require intervention. For these reasons he has written several books where he reflects his research and gives to be critical about what is lived.
In 2007 he premiered his firstborn book "Trump and the fall of the Clinton empire", which deals with the keys to the arrival of Donald Trump to the presidency of the United States of America.
And for 2019, wrote "The Trail of the Dead Russians", a book that reveals Vladimir Putin's international political strategies, as well as everything that was behind the murders and unexplained deaths of Russian spies and diplomats in recent years.
Have you achieved a national award or nomination?
Vicente Valles has not only managed to captivate his audience with his very reasonable interpretations of the news, but he has also sensitized to all those critics and directors who have awarded him prizes for his great work and professionalism.
One of these receptions was in 2006, when his person was rewarded with the "International Press Club Award". Later, he was awarded the "Salvador de Madariaga Prize" awarded by the Academy of European Journalism.
In 2010 it was winning for his program "La noche de 24 horas" by the group of spectators and listeners in the region and a year later, he received the "Protagonist Award of Spanish Communication".
Likewise, in 2014 he was awarded not one, but three consecutive awards. The first the "Laurel Platinum", then the "Communicative Talent" recognition and finally the "Journalism Award" from the Complutense University of Madrid.
And unbelievably, it achieves a fourth tribute at the end of this year, recognized as the “Antena de Oro Award” by the Federation of the Association of Journalism and Television of Spain.
Finally, its most current award stand out in 2016 with the "Onda Award", "Iris Award of the Academy of Sciences" and "Award of the Arts" as a television presenter.
What did you get during your stay in the foreign press?
During his period of broadcasting news and reports from foreign countries, he earned the appreciation of the most specialized producers and presenters, as well as the public and viewers in general, for which he was awarded a series of recognitions according to his work and his journey through each television station and international sector; some of them are presented below.
In 2006, won the "International Press Club Award", as the association's best male presenter. Three years later got the "Salvador de Madariaga Prize" and then the "Prize of the Association of Telespectador and Radio listener".
By 2016 it already had more than ten wins between national and international tributes, but given its spirit and work carried out, the awards were not going to stop appearing. For which in this year, won the “Wave Prize” and “Iris Prize of the Spanish Academy of Sciences and Television Arts, twice in a row.
In 2019 he grant the “Oviedo University and Ibero-American Communication Association Award” and in 2020 the “Award from the Association of Foreign Press Correspondents” and finally, the “Francisco Cereceda Award” from the European Journalism Association.
In which chains or companies did you work?
Valles always saw the best of each company that called him to present or drive some of their programs, for which he is grateful and acknowledges the great work they did so that each change occurred with total normality and comfort.
Given this case, these companies that they reached out are represented as the following:
- Chain being 1985-1987
- TVE 1987-1989 and 2008-2011
- Telemadrid 1989-1994
- Telecinco 1994-2008
- Antena 3, from 2011 to the present
How do we know more about him?
Technology and technological media are becoming so close to us, so Simply We can access the network and search for everything that corresponds to us.
In this case, Vicente Valles Does not use digital media to make known everything that happens in your life. Since, this gentleman keeps his family moments, meetings and personal events in total privacy.
However, it was only in this year 2020-2021 that due to the pandemic, he began to use the social network Twitter and Instagram, where he shows his entire work trajectory and the political opinions of his authorship.
