Edmundo Arrocet Von Lohse, better known in the artistic world as "Mustache Arrocet", is an Argentine-Chilean actor, who was born in the province of Buenos Aires on November 19, 1949.
This great artist, has a wide and extensive career in the entertainment world, making himself known mostly in Spain for his participation as a comedian in the Spanish contest "One two, three… Answer again ”.
¿How was Mustache Arrocet's childhood?
The well-known humorist of South American origin, lived in Argentina until the Age 11 and later he moved with his family to Chile. Likewise, it is important to highlight in the life of this famous that his father is Spanish, while his mother is of Italian and German origin, having a great contrast of multiple ancestry.
In the same vein, in repeated interviews Arrocet Bigot, has pointed out that his childhood was full of hard moments but of much and valuable learning for his personal life, whose bases and experiences served him greatly for the years to come and in his development as a better person.
But, it was not until his 10 years that he began to be a happy child, since it was the moment that he had to live with his parents and his brothers in harmony and with ample economic income, this time in which his family was dedicated to the hotel world. In these years and passages of his childhood they developed in the mythical city of Buenos Aires.
However, his family life took a momentous turn with the separation and breakdown of the marriage relationship between his parents. At that precise moment he established his residence in Chile, and as a result of the constant controversies of the separation of his parents, he was compelled to make a very difficult decision in his life, which determined him to undertake a challenge of live alone on the streets, literally between cartons. One of his saddest statements was where he related his misery:
"I left home at 12 because of my father who was very tough. At 12 it looked like I was 17 or 0. I left and had a bad time. I was hungry and cold, and I recommend to everyone that they go hungry and cold so that they know what life is like. For six months I was almost a street child. Then I worked as an usher in a cinema and studied at night at a night school, the Federico Hanssen ”.
Arrocet Mustache, 1999
At the same time, with only 13 years of age he was presented with the hard experience of traveling to the north of the country to work in the mines and be able to have enough money to feed. There, with a lot of effort and work, he spent some years until he got his first opportunity to jump to fame and enter the world of entertainment, to establish himself for many years with the seal of success and the affection of the public.
Over the years, he returned to having a relationship with his family, but he never spoke to his father again. "We passed each other on the street and he turned my face and I said, what for?" Of course, he could not contain his tears when he commented to the presenter Bertin Osborne that one day he visited his father's grave, knelt down, told him everything, but then thanked him, "If he hadn't been like that, I wouldn't have been who I am."
What was your journey to fame?
Arrocet Mustache, became known in the world of television thanks to the recommendation of a friend who appreciated the talent and his great gifts that he had for imitation. Thanks to these qualities he began to act quickly and in one of his first appearances on the screen, and seeing that his name was so extensive, they baptized him as Edmundo "Arrocet Bigot”, A nickname that continues to this day and is what the Spanish public has managed to identify it with.
Likewise, due to his extraordinary ability to characterize and interpret characters with only 17 years of age, he obtained one of the most important successes that an artist can receive when conquering his first Golden seagull at the most recognized Festival in Chile and one of the best in the world, such as the Viña del Mar Festival.
How was the decline of your career in Chile?
After having had an ascendant and dizzying success in Chile, his career experienced a very considerable decline, because on September 11, 1973, he expressed his sympathy and support for the coup, which placed the now deceased in government. Former General Augusto Pinochet.
This aforementioned factor, brought as a direct consequence the public reproach and the discontent of the Chilean press, who assumed at the time that the artist was trying to ingratiate himself with the leaders of the new dictatorial regime that ruled the southern country for more than 15 years.
In this way he lost the support of his fans, being forced to move to Spain in 1974 where he remains today.
How did your life and work in Spain pass?
After the strong controversy that was unleashed by his alleged sympathy for the former dictator Augusto Pinochet, in 1974 se settle in Spain to continue ascending with the success of his career as a singer, actor and comedian.
Among the most notable performances on the Spanish screen, the program “Applause and One, two, three. Answer again ", from 1977 to 1988, in which he performed a counterpoint of great fun with the presenters.
This program “Applause and One, two, three. Answer again ”, broadcast by “Televisión Española”, it is one of the musicals that marked the history of television, which allowed Arrocet to be identified by the audience as a great humorist, an activity that spread his popularity and effort throughout Spain.
Also, it was a time when his dialogues with the presenter became very popular. Mayra Gomez Kem, to which he addressed himself as “Doña Mayrucha” and her tagline repeated over and over again “Piticlin, Petilín”.
Likewise, after that overwhelming success, he became from 1991 to 1992, the presenter of the Program “Wheel of Fortune", in the case of a contest show broadcast by "Antena 3 ”, where he shared the scene with the presenter Mabel Lozano and expressed his ease in conducting a program on his own.
Years later, specifically in 2004, with the backing of a career in the world of television, he ventured into the reality show "The Jungle of the Famous", a program in which famous contestants with a long history and experience on Spanish television survived on a semi-desert island located in Honduras.
Then, in 2017 through Telecinco, he participated in the program "Survivors", where for 56 days he was attentive to each game and challenge assigned, but turned out to be the fifth expelled from the competition for not meeting each requirement.
For its part, in Spanish cinema it has appeared with great brilliance and success in Spanish films, such as: “Here comes Condemor ”,“ The sinner of the father ”in 1996, and in“ Brácula Condemor II ”of 1997 and“ Papá Piquillo ”in 1998.
How has your love life been?
The sentimental life of this character has been quite painful and complicated, since he has had to see two great of his loves leave with whom he lived and recreated a family, in turn he had to face charges with some of them for breaches and disinterest in the coexistence and growth of his children. Here is a count of the events:
His first marriage took place in Chile with the television presenter of southern origin Gabriela velasco, with whom he had a daughter named Maria Gabriela Arrocet Velasco. However, this first union only lasted during the time when he remained a residence in Chile and when his daughter was only two years old.
However, in 2019 Gabriela Velasco passed away which had become known in Spain as the first wife of the well-known comedian, as well as for the lawsuit that had been instituted in 1992, for bigamy and for breach of the maintenance obligation.
It is important to note that in 2016, Gabriela Velasco told “Lecturas” in an interview in 2016 that many people interfered in her marriage with her ex-husband, and it was during their separation process that she discovered that Arrocet had remarried with Rocio Corral Penna and that for that reason he had decided to file a legal recourse to annul the union.
In other words: “Edmundo got married and sold the exclusive to a magazine. With the photos in the magazine as proof and with my wedding certificate duly legalized at the Chilean consulate, I managed to annul her marriage. In Chile there was no divorce, I wanted annulment but whenever I asked for it, he said no " This is how he expressed in his time for the magazine "Lecturas" and made it clear what was happening.
But, despite all these controversies, Arrocet Bigot mourned the death of the mother of his first daughter, who over the years maintained a harmonious relationship, full of affection and attachment as a normal family.
Consecutively, in 1977 while residing in Spain, he again contracted a legal marriage with the Chilean dentist Rocio Corral Penna, with whom he had two children: Maximiliano and Estefanía.
The well-known artist always comments with great nostalgia in his interviews that Rocio Corral Penna was his first and only true love since his adolescence and that his physical disappearance in 2012 had surprised him, saying verbatim "In life, even though you have a very bad time ... Especially with her, we were dating since she was 12 and I was 15. I didn't expect it because she had a great right, she had never had a cold. And suddenly, overnight came the whole thing ... "
Then, in 2014, after having overcome the pain and loss of his wife Rocio Corral Penna, he began a new dating relationship with the Spanish journalist Maria Teresa Campos, which lasted six years. During that time of love affair, rumors about certain infidelities by the Chilean comedian circulated in the social media, but nothing was ever confirmed and the data was simply forgotten.
What scandals has Arrocet faced?
In 1992 his ex-wife Gabriela Velasco accused him of the crimes of bigamy and defamation. In this sense, it was presumed that the artist had remarried in Spain with Rocío Corral Penna using false documents to pretend the marital status of single.
Likewise, he was pointed out by Gabriela Velasco for having forged and adulterated papers when he was in a feeding trial, this with the presumed purpose of avoiding the sanction that was going to be imposed on him for not complying with the maintenance payments for the benefit of his daughter María Gabriela Arrocet. It should be noted that the divorce with the Chilean presenter Gabriela Velasco occurred in 2013.
Also for many years, it was reported in the media that in 1980 while he was married to Rocío Corral, had an extramarital affair with Annette ledgard Where was he born Alexis ledgard, who then in 2020, after several controversies, the DNA test was performed, resulting negative and clarifying that he was definitely not Arrocet's son.
This fact notoriously surprised the famous comedian since he always openly stated in the media that Alexis ledgard He was his son, which led him to question his lover's fidelity to him and the wishes that this lady possessed so that he modestly cared for and monetarily raised the little boy.
What is your activity in the business world?
Despite the fact that his life has been immersed in fame and in the artistic world, Arrocet Bigot in parallel, it has participated in other activities and undertakings which have been consolidated with the seal of success and economic prosperity.
This is reflected from the year 1978 when he began his activity as an entrepreneur in Dorata SL, of which he is president and its main corporate purpose is the commercialization, distribution and sale of audiovisual rights for TV, video, cinema, music and radio.
Likewise, in 2000 he founded the Company in Santiago de Chile Ebex Spain Engineering Ltda, which was dedicated to industrial engineering, software, digital services and electronic commerce.
Also, in 2010 he undertook another new business project and began Tecorra & Tecorra SL, which consisted of the provision of recreational services related to the production of cinematographic films and videos.
What curious facts should we know about him?
The well-known and famous comedian among his favorite activities is the Yoga, reincarnated beliefs, vegetarianism, reading, television programs, among others.
Likewise, in 2020, Bigote Arrocet assured the Chilean press that his interviews in Spain are traded at a value of 35 to 65 thousand euros and that continues to be number 1 with the agenda to bursting with galas and spaces to enter into conversation or video with a reporter or producer
Equally, love animals, have fun and the smell of flowers, I wish that little shared due to his permanent machismo and the comments that may arise thanks to it.
Location on social media
This artist known for being a public figure is very active on Instagram through his account @arocetemundo and @bigotearrocetfanclub, There you can illustrate different passages and publications about his private life and his activity in the business world.
In turn, it has Facebook, a social network where he shares his humorous videos, the story of his life and his brand new projects, as well as exposes the means of contact to reach his companies and what constitutes them. Potentially attached Twitter to their communication and distraction interfaces, since this is where I attach comments, scenes and illustrations about their family, work and pets.
But, if you wonder what his user is to find him in the aforementioned networks, you only need to enter his name in the Facebook search engine and his certified profile will appear. And in the case of Twitter with the user @ mustacherocet1 you will access its portal without complications.
