Short answer: During a January 2026 appearance on Spain's La Revuelta, a screenshot of poor ratings for ¡Allá tú! appeared among former host Jesús Vázquez's phone photos. The uncomfortable moment played as comedy. When he returned on 21 October, Vázquez said he had personally called successor Juanra Bonet to apologise because the gag could hurt the people still making the show.
The people and the programme
La Revuelta is a Spanish public-television talk show hosted by David Broncano on RTVE's La 1. The 21 October episode was scheduled from 9:45pm mainland Spanish time and also featured French opera singer Philippe Jaroussky. Vázquez is a long-established television presenter who formerly fronted ¡Allá tú!, a Spanish game show built around choosing boxes and negotiating prizes. Bonet was presenting its new run on the commercial channel Telecinco.
The awkward part is simple even if you have never watched Spanish television: a former presenter had saved a report about the ratings of the programme now hosted by his replacement.
What was on the phone in January?
On 13 January, Broncano persuaded Vázquez to connect his phone's photo gallery to the studio screen. One image was a screenshot of a report on the new ¡Allá tú! launch: a 7.5% audience share and an average audience of 774,000. Audience share measures the proportion of people watching television at that time who were tuned to the show; it is not 7.5% of Spain's population.
Vázquez tried to stop that particular image being displayed, even making an exaggerated pleading gesture, before it appeared. The comedy came from the collision between an innocent-looking gallery tour, an unexpectedly pointed ratings headline and the former host's visible discomfort. Reports of the incident do not establish that he planted the image for a planned attack.
What changed on 21 October?
When Broncano revisited the episode nine months later, Vázquez said he had reconsidered. The studio moment could be funny, but the people who worked on ¡Allá tú!—many of them his former colleagues—might understandably read it as a slight. He said he had no personal issue with Bonet and had obtained his number to apologise directly.
According to Vázquez's on-air account, Bonet reassured him. Vázquez also said he called again when the show's audience share first crossed into double digits, this time to congratulate him. The dates and full wording of those private calls have not been independently published; the claim is his account, reported by RTVE and Spanish outlets.
Why is the follow-up the real punchline?
Vázquez acknowledged feeling hurt by the abrupt end of his time at Telecinco. Seeing a former employer struggle could briefly feel satisfying. But a network dispute is not the same as hostility towards the successor and crew doing the job.
January supplied the awkward visual joke: the old host appeared to be carrying his replacement's disappointing report card in his pocket. October supplied a reversal: he picked up the phone not to gloat but to apologise, then to celebrate a better result. The same ratings that once made a joke possible later became an occasion for goodwill.
Conclusion
The new revelation on La Revuelta was not another embarrassing screenshot. It was Vázquez's account of what happened after the cameras stopped. A 7.5% ratings gag ended with a congratulatory call when ¡Allá tú! passed 10%. That is why the October conversation gives the January clip a different ending.
References (5)
- RTVE, programme report, 21 October 2026: https://www.rtve.es/play/noticias/20261021/revuelta-broncano-invitado-directo-programa-completo-21-octubre/17277037.shtml
- RTVE Play, La Revuelta episode archive: https://www.rtve.es/play/la-revuelta/
- La Vanguardia, 22 October 2026: https://www.lavanguardia.com/television/20261022/11665691/jesus-vazquez-desvela-conversacion-juanra-bonet-polemica-audiencias-venia-dolido.html
- Vertele, 21 October 2026: https://www.eldiario.es/vertele/noticias/jesus-vazquez-desvela-llamada-juanra-bonet-pillada-revuelta-no-iba-contar_1_13604892.html
- Mundo Deportivo, original incident reported 15 January 2026: https://www.mundodeportivo.com/elotromundo/television/20260115/1002601796/pataleta-telecinco-hizo-jesus-vazquez-pleno-directo-revuelta-rtve-ridiculo-dct.html
