Pim,
Actually all the girls are quite pretty, but I was suggesting that my favourite amongst the "chicas" is Gisela. I guess I didn´t make myself clear about this.

BTW Chenoa seems very arrogant, so I hope she abanonds the academy quickly.

Regards,
Shawn

There's only one more week of Operación Triunfo left!!!

After last night's show; the six finalists are:

Rosa, David Bisbal, Chenoa, Manu Tenorio, Vero, y David Bustamante.

It was very sad to see Gisela and specially Nuria(la Fergó) go.

Well, tomorrow is the last show.
Just so you know how popular this contest has become, last Monday's edition was the single most watched program in Spain in the last five years!!!
If we were to make a 'porra', I'd bet for these three finalists: Rosa, Chenoa, and David Bisbal, although I kind of like Manu Tenorio a little better than him.

Yes, pim, it's amazing how "Operación Triunfo" has become so popular. At first, I wasn't interested in watching the show, but I HAD to start watching it because everybody was talking the whole week about their participants (and I was lost in those conversations). It's been a great success in Spain and the finalists are now very famous.

I also think that the winners will be David Bisbal (a Luis Miguel wannabe, but the most popular), Rosa (a girl who has the best voice and has lost "god knows" how many kilos in the academy) and Chenoa (a great performer but not very loved by the audience because she seems a bit arrogant).
I think it's a pity that they sing others' songs and they don't write their own ones.

Hi.

As the winners are going to be choosed by telephone, I think that the winners will be:
1/ Bisbal
2/ Rosa
3/ Bustamante

But I prefer:
1/ Bisbal
2/ Manu Tenorio
3/ Chenoa

Saludos!

Well Hombre Gizon got it correct as far as the winners were concerned....

1st Choice Rosa
2nd Choice David Bisbal
3rd Choice David Bustamante

Chenoa, Manu Tenorio and Veronica were all offered record contracts with different companies. Veronica was offered a contract by Sony.

It´s not over yet, so certainly the 3 actual winners will have gotten some other cool prizes as well!

Wow!, congrats Hombre-Gizon, I was quite surprised by the outcome of last night's show....
And I kind of think Chenoa was surprised too ! (don't get me wrong, I like her a lot; it's true she was a little 'malhumorada' at first, but it's amazing how she has soften up. Unlike other cases, her character has improved a lot more than her voice which was great from the beginning)

I must confess that I was very moved last night, for two main reasons I think;

First, because it's been 4 months!, I absolutely relate to Castiza, and it seems like it's been the same way for most everybody. I didn't care for the program at first, but then I started to watch this "brat-pack", and how they worked really hard, never losing hope; and comparing that to most other current tv shows....no comment!!!
It's been nice to start off the week with an uplifting music show.


The second reason is Rosa.
For those not familiar with OP, imagine a 21-year-old girl from a humble village/neighborhood of Granada, that neither studied or worked, but stayed home with mum, dad and two brothers(all of them quite chubby), and that had herself a serious weight problem; but most of all, whose way of speaking was so 'cerrada' that it was very hard to understand her at first, actually, everytime anybody addressed her she'd resort to monosyllables or plain noises instead of words.
Her voice, though, was incredible from the start. And so was her good nature.
Well, with time and a lot of effort from her teachers and the rest of the kids, to convince her that she was worthy, and beautiful, and a GREAT person, and she shouldn't be so ashamed and self-conscious about everything; she has blosssomed big-time and become an (almost) secure, gorgeous, grown-up woman.
She now sings in both Spanish and English with no problem at all, has found many great friends, specially Veronica, whom she calls 'mi Vero', has been voted most popular in the academy every week except for one or two, was chosen most attractive female by such a posh magazine as HOLA!, and finally, has won Operación Triunfo.

That's quite a real Cinderella story. Good for her!

Hi!

I porpose a toast to Rosa, Bisbal and Bustamante! ... and to Chenoa, Manu and Verónica.

The first thing that the Disc Company is going to do with Rosa is to teach her to speak. I just understand her when she sings!.

I've read a forum about Operacion Triunfo and people was angry because most of them prefered Chenoa or Manu instead of Bustamante. They say that it has been a bad option to let the ordinary people to choose the winner through phone calls. But ... I don't agree with them. Yes, it's true, Chenoa or Manu are better than Bustamante but this is a tv program and the main amount of revenues of the program are due to the mobile and phone calls.

So, if you want to see another Operación Triunfo, the tv program must be profitable, and the participation of people with phonecalls has been its better way to earn money.

Bye! and good lucky to all of them!

Well NOW OT is REALLY over. Last night Rosa was chosen by almost half of the people who voted over David Bisbal and David Bustamante to be Spain's participant in the Eurovision song contest, with a song called "Europe's living a celebration". She's enjoying a HUMONGOUS success, I really hope she can remain such a sweet, innocent, modest and good-natured person.

Go Rosa!

BTW, someone asked a while ago when the Miss Spain pageant was to take place, well, it's next Saturday. (St. Patricks's Day!)

I first saw OT over New Year's in Spain. I knew then that the show was going to be huge. You couldn't even buy a compact disc for their songs because of the waiting list at El Corte Ingles. I remember talking with my Spanish girlfriend about how Rosa could win. She has an incredible voice (just listen to her on "It's Raining Men") and I thought that many people could identify with her.

Way to go Rosa!