Everything is ready for the season to start new edition operation victory (Extension); The twelfth edition of the television format that made famous artists such as David Bisbal, Aitana, Manuel Carrasco or Lola Índigo moving to streaming platforms It will stream on Prime (Amazon). program starts next Monday, November 20 with ‘premiere 0’ 18 candidates will compete to become the 16 official contestants of this edition. The 90-minute gala, which will premiere the new format of Express galas, will be broadcast live strictly.
To warm up for next Monday’s broadcast, Prime premiered two episodes last Thursday in the center final castingswhere viewers can discover their names. 18 singers will perform at the premiere on Monday. The final casting took place in Barcelona at the end of September, but it took almost two months for followers of the format to discover their faces and especially their voices.
Victory of eight communities
Knowing the identities of the 18 people who applied to Operación Triunfo, geographic radiography about the origin of the contestants. I’m coming from eight autonomous communities different – Andalusia is the most represented country with five participants – and in this edition the most three foreign national competitorsThey are of Uruguayan, Ukrainian and Sao Tome and Principe descent, although they have resided in Spain for years. In fact, the participation of Lucas (Uruguay) is a direct link with Latin America. Prime will broadcast OT in South American countries as well as Spain.
Which communities do OT 2023 contestants come from? Of the 18 people who applied to enter the academy; six I was born Andalusia, the team with the most “wins” this year. These are Álex Márquez, Álvaro Mayo, Denna, Paul, Violeta and Salma. The Canary Islands and Aragon are two other autonomous communities with more than one representative.. Cris and Edu come from the Canary Islands, while Juanjo and Naiara will represent the Aragonese territory. The rest is distributed between Madrid (Bea), the Balearic Islands (Chiara), Galicia (Lina del Sol), the Basque Country (Martin) and Castilla-La Mancha (Omar). The three international contestants are Lucas, Ruslana and Suzete, born in Uruguay, Ukraine and Sao Tome and Principe, respectively.
Valencian Community, the great “forgotten”
So what will happen to the Valencian Community? The region is undoubtedly the largest forgotten region of Operación Triunfo 2023, along with Catalonia. And this none of the participants are of Valencian originA surprising fact, considering the population size of the Valencian region and therefore its ability to attract Valencian viewers to follow the new edition of the “most famous television academy”.
This contrasts with the situation in the previous two editions, where two of the most charismatic candidates were of Valencian origin. Inside 2018woman from Elche Alba Reche In an edition won by Famous, he managed to make it to the final and stay on the verge of victory (he finished second). However, the Valencian driver delivered some of the most iconic performances of the season, such as ‘La llorona’ or ‘Toxic’.
One more edition, in the edition published in 2020, Samantha (Beniarrés) was one of the protagonists of the repression that was interrupted by the pandemic. The Valencian singer advanced to the semi-finals, just one step away from the grand final, which Nia won, but she became the most viral contestant of the edition with her words like “If Jennifer Aniston could beat Brad Pitt, so can I,” referring to Nia. After the end of the program, she dated Flavio, with whom she was a partner for more than two years.