After days of controversy, RTVE decided to withdraw from its digital platform and its networks the latest program MasterChef After numerous criticisms, among them the Minister of Health, Mónica GarcÃaon Lthe way in which the presenter Jordi Cruz treated a contestant that He abandoned the competition due to not feeling well mentally..
Tamara, the contestant who left the program, justified her decision by saying that she did not feel prepared to be in the final: “I feel very frustrated and I don’t feel like continuing the dynamic in which I am not well. Forgive me, but it is more important to be well than to disappoint you.”
Jordi Cruz replied before asking for the apron and showing him the door so he could leave: “I wouldn’t ask you any questions, I would just say ‘very good, ciao’. “You’ve taken away people’s opportunities.”
This Friday, through a statement posted on Twitter, the public corporation regretted the broadcast of “content that should not have happened” and announced that it is going to tighten its internal controls so that this situation does not happen again.
“We regret the broadcast of content that should not have happened. Management has reinforced internal controls to avoid similar episodes. RTVE reiterates its commitment to mental health,” the corporation’s message stated.
After all the commotion, a member of the media conglomerate’s advisory board, Toño Abadhas also shown his discomfort with the cooking show and has announced that in the next council he will inform the rest of the councilors that more drastic measures must be taken with the space.
“In the next RTVE advisory council I am going to convey that it is not enough to withdraw a program that has already been broadcast. Not even the judges have apologized to the contestant“, he wrote in X Abad, which denounces that no one has publicly apologized to Tamara after the incident.
“MasterChef is exhausted and its jury does not represent the values that public television must have,” Abad said.
