Gisela Valcárcel facts for kids

Sonia Mercedes Gisela Valcárcel Álvarez (born 26 January 1963) is a Peruvian television hostess, actress, and businesswoman. She owns and manages the Amarige Beauty Salons & Spas in Lima. She is the director of women's magazines Gisela and Amarige. She also runs her own television production company called GV Productions (El Show de los sueños (Peru), América Hoy, El Gran Show).

Early life

Alvarez was born on 26 January 1963, to her parents Jorge Valcárcel and Teresa Álvarez. She studied at Institución Educativa Teresa González de Fanning.

Alvarez was a minor when she was became pregnant with boyfriend Jorge Pozo. Once her daughter Ethel was born, Alvarez began her arduous and convoluted path to success. She started as a secretary at a car company and was hired as an extra for theater performances.

Career

A she was working as a part-time receptionist on Panamerican televisión, channel 5, she publicly kissed the Venezuelan singer Oscar de León live on Peruvian television, she instantly launched her career. She started as a comic actress and a dancer ("vedette") in the programs Risas y Salsa and La gran Revista.

In 1987, Panamericana Televisión proposed conducting a Peruvian version of Hello Susana, which would be named "Alo Gisela". Alvarez then became the queen of daytime television on Peruvian TV for several years during the late '80s and early '90s. Her guests have been famous Latin American stars such as Chayanne, Julio Iglesias, Luis Miguel, Guillermo Dávila, Ricardo Montaner, Shakira, María Antonieta de las Nieves, Isabel Pantoja, José Luis Rodríguez, Menudo, Ricky Martin, Thalía, Paulina Rubio, Rocío Dúrcal, and Paloma San Basilio. Her TV shows were always very popular due to her interaction with the audiences, including phone conversations on TV and offering advice to the audience, especially housewives. At the same time, she founded "Amarige Salon & Urban Spa", a beauty parlor.

Gisela Valcárcel simultaneously hosted Saturday nighttime television shows in the late nineties and early 2000, including a local version of Big Brother named La Casa de Gisela.

Her latest project is a local version of Bailando por un sueño in franchise with Mexican TV station Televisa. In 2008, she suspended the magazine production of Gisela to work on Los Reyes de la Pista (Perú). In February 2009, she unveiled a new TV project: El Show de los Sueños, in a franchise with Televisa. In 2010, she hosted El Gran Show. In 2012, she hosted Operación Triunfo, the Peruvian version of Star Academy. However, in August she decided to return to the dance reality show El Gran Show.

Her company Espíritu y GV Producciones produced the mini series Llauca which premiered in 2021.

Personal life

On 10 June 1995, she married the soccer player Roberto Martínez Vera-Tudela. After some years, the couple divorced.

During the political scandal, Valcarcel also began a personal spiritual search that took her to India, where she met some religious leaders, including Sathya Sai Baba, and in the U.S. Deepak Chopra.

In 2006, after six years of romance, she married the Peruvian architect Javier Carmona. The couple separated shortly after the marriage.

She had a relationship with Jorge Pozo, with whom she had a daughter, Ethel Pozo.

Appearances

As hostess

• "Aló Gisela" (1987–1992) midday show on Panamericana Televisión Channel 5
• "Gisela en America" (1993-1994) midday show on América Televisión Channel 4
• "Así es Gisela" (1995) night show on Panamericana Televisión Channel 5
• "Gisela en América" (1996–1997) midday show on América Televisión Channel 4
• "Gisela contigo" (1998) midday show on Red Global Channel 13
• "Aló Gisela" (2000) midday show on Panamericana Televisión Channel 5
• "Gisela" (2001) night show on Panamericana Televisión Channel 5
• "Gisela" (2002) night show on Frecuencia Latina Channel 2
• "La casa de Gisela" (2003) night show on Frecuencia Latina Channel 2
• "Siempre Gisela" (2005) night show on Frecuencia Latina Channel 2
• "Bailando por un sueño" (2008) night show on Panamericana Televisión Channel 5
• "Los Reyes de la Pista" (2008) night show on Panamericana Televisión Channel 5
• El Show de los sueños (2009) night show on América Televisión Channel 4
• "El Gran Show" (2010) night show on America Television Channel 4

Public shows

• Teletón 2008–2010

In theatre

• La mujer del año - Teatro Canout
• "EL SUBMARINO" (1999)

Films

• Tarata (2008)

Awards

See also

In Spanish: Gisela Valcárcel para niños