“I’m sorry, it’s not my target”. “She doesn’t like people talking about her.” “I’ll give you a few brushstrokes, but please don’t quote me.” We know a lot about Alejandra Rubio Borrego (Madrid, 23 years old), although it’s hard to find someone who wants to talk about her. Not so much because of her modesty, but also because of her mother’s jealousy.
Granddaughter of María Teresa Campos, daughter of Terelu and niece of Carmen, Rubio is a collaborator in television programs such as This is life and Party (both broadcast on Telecinco) and a character who landed in public life from the moment of his birth on March 24, 2000 (his mother thanked him in the program that she then presented on Telemadrid, With T for afternoon, the congratulations she received for the creature from Jaime de Marichalar and the Infanta Elena).
Linked to the Mediaset universe since she launched into television, her first stable collaboration was in 2020 in the debate of one of the Reality TV Telecinco star, The island of temptations. Later, she was one of the regulars in the chairs of the talk show hosts Live lifethe program that Emma García presented on weekend afternoons. Since its end, she has collaborated on the format that replaced it, Partyand also in the social chronicle and current affairs discussion This is life, and has become one of the channel’s regular faces.
Rubio studied, like many other children of famous people, at the Colegio de Nuestra Señora de Rosales, one of the many buds of what some call good families, and he debuted where other children of famous people do, with a pose in the magazine Hello!, when she turned 18. “We discovered a new and spectacular beauty in the Campos saga,” was the headline, always generous with the characters of the house.
But the girl from Rosales School rebelled against her planned destiny, put on her military boots, painted a eyeliner infinite, he dressed up as a cultured person, he said he didn’t want to be like the rest. And he began a path to fame full of paradoxes and contradictions that were not always well digested.
Like that anxiety attack he suffered, a scare away from the book, after posing in the photocall from his own birthday party, held at the Madrid nightclub Gabana. Too many flashestoo much attention. Her gestures that night, dressed in black, hair of the same color, announced what would come next and what she remains. In that difficult balance between living by talking about others and not wanting them to talk about you. That night, while she tried to find the oxygen she was lacking, her mother and grandmother posed proudly, back from everything, with more street smarts than anyone.
They say she is extremely polite, charming at short distances, and a thunderclap when she plays. She says on her Instagram profile that she is “an actress, music lover, and an avid reader.” Her biography says that she tried to study Law without success, that she tried again with fashion design, and that she also failed. She is now studying the last year of the degree in Acting at the Codina School in Madrid. In between, she has been a public relations person for several nightclubs in the capital. In between, she made her debut as a television collaborator on the talk show The island of temptations, and from September 2022 to October last year, he conducted a series of interviews in the newspaper’s People section Abcwhere he chatted with a handful of names that seemed to have come straight from his contact list.
Rubio has a magnetic and hypnotizing touch when she speaks. “They call me goth, they say I’ve had surgery on my entire face… I have completely assumed that people think that, even if it’s not true,” she said on a second cover of Hello!in which she also posed with her mother, in August 2019.
In social gatherings, she insists on using her age as an excuse when it suits her – sometimes to rub it in her colleagues’ faces that she is more modern and tattooed than anyone else, sometimes also to justify her ignorance – and exudes the arrogance that runs through her maternal surname. “Don’t you understand! I’m an actress,” she once protested to some reporters on the street.
Meritocracy and family
As others, or rather her mother, insist on reminding us, she became independent at the age of 18 and has been living off her earnings ever since. As if she were the perfect product of meritocracy, when she herself recognises, without any problem because she is not, that she is where she is because of the family that gave birth to her.
“I just don’t know what to say about that person, daughter and granddaughter of Campos, nepobaby “A textbook good-for-nothing, soap opera type of girl. I like her though. She stands out among her kind,” says a television critic.
It is known that Alejandra has had several boyfriends, that she likes to talk just enough about who she goes out with and who she goes out with. That when she feels like the center of attention she resorts to two wild cards: “I have nothing to say” or “don’t do this to me, Sandra,” in reference to Barneda, co-presenter of one of the programs she collaborates on. Determined when she controls the topics, she oscillates between humility — “I know I have a lot to learn” — and the impudence of someone who is known to always fall for it, no matter what happens.
She wants to taste the sweetness of fame alone, to let the wind blow only in her face, a path that, if she follows it, will only lead her to failure and perpetual sulking. The last of her companions – who knows what twenty-somethings call this – is Carlo Costanzia, Mar Flores’s eldest son, who works as an actor and was sentenced to 21 months in prison for a crime of fraud related to the sale and purchase of high-end vehicles. Since they’ve been together, the cameras have followed them, supposed exes of her, supposed exes of his, she begs for mercy at the door of her house, she resorts to the importance of mental health so that we understand that one cannot live like this. And she’s right. As she’s not when she believes that she will be the one to find the middle ground between a low profile and the public. As if it were possible to talk about what others do and not want anything to be known about you.
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