Juan del Val, writer, screenwriter, talk show host and husband of the presenter Nuria Roca, always says what he thinks. Like on TV. Fed up and tired of the label that they have been hung with as an open couple, he clarifies that “this is something that has been absurdly overstated. Eye-catching headlines are needed.” The author of Delparaíso considers that fidelity is something unnatural. “The phrase that we are an open couple I am not aware of having pronounced it. The only thing I said and I maintain is that fidelity for me is not a determining element in a relationship; and it seems that that made me the infidel of Spain ”.

Far from sensationalist headlines, what is clear is that Del Val and Roca, aged 51 and 49, have become the fashionable couple. Everything they do and say has media relevance. Part of their success is due to their appearance as talk show hosts on the El Hormiguero program, where they joke and throw taunts at each other about their life together. “What is behind our interventions on television is true; I am a little less modest than her, but I think that what comes up always has to do with aspects that many couples identify with”, she reveals. In addition, he has a section on La Roca, the new LaSexta program presented by his wife.

Off-screen, the fashionable couple has become the ambassadors of Cortefiel in the Autumn-Winter campaign entitled “Let them talk about you”. On the occasion of this presentation, Juan attends La Vanguardia: "That they talk about me is something that does not matter to me, it is not that I like it, but it does not matter to me."

"When they ask me, I say what I think, always with respect. And I don't think if what I say or write is going to bother someone or they're going to criticize me on social media. I don't mind that quite"

He considers himself a conceited man and is very interested in fashion. When it comes to dressing, he likes to be comfortable but sophisticated. And he confesses that there is a garment that he never wears: flowered shirts and almost never polka dots. "Not because I don't like them, but because they don't suit me."

The writer from Madrid admits that he has the vocation of being a provocateur. “It is inevitable when you try to be honest. When they ask me, I say what I think, always with respect. And I don't think if what I say or write is going to bother someone or they are going to criticize me on networks. I get past that a lot." That's why he left Twitter – "for not being an accomplice to such an absurd site" – and that's why he doesn't follow anyone on Instagram. Well yes, a person, his wife – "I have no choice" -. In his opinion, people who are public “are terrified by social networks, I don't participate in that, because if the mediocre don't win. I say what I want."

Juan and Nuria have been together for more than 22 years, they have three children and “a mortgage, like everyone else”. He is not in favor of giving advice to anyone on how to succeed in marriage, but he assures that it is important for him to see Nuria "as a woman, not as my wife." He does not like to think of his partner as his own. “She is alive apart from me, in every way. For me it is healthy although committed because it keeps me alert and alive”. Also, it helps that "we laugh a lot together and there's a certain admiration between us." For the writer, "the most lazy term in the world is to call your partner 'the mother of my children'".

What is behind our interventions on television is true; I am a little less modest than her, but I think that what arises always has to do with aspects that many couples identify with”

They met thanks to Waku Waku , the program that she presented between 1998 and 2001. As soon as he saw her, he wanted to interview her for Man magazine, where he worked. And there began a persecution that ended with him appearing on TV to do the interview. "I thought she was the most beautiful woman I had ever seen in my life."

In addition to work and fame, the couple is dealing with the adolescence of their children: Juan, 19, Pau, 15, and Olivia, 11. “Our obligation as parents is to create independent beings and give them tools so that they are; my children are and when we get together we are all a fun family in which each one tells their things”.

Juan and Nuria have been together for more than 22 years, they have three children and “a mortgage, like everyone else”

Regarding the popularity he is currently enjoying, Del Val confesses that “in these In the last two years of more fame I am having a wonderful time, but since I am already very old, and this catches me at an advanced age, I already know that these things are temporary, and one of these days I will disappear and that's it ”.

Now he has on his hands restructuring his day to day to take time to start writing his next novel, which he already has in his head. "Sitting down to write is wonderful torture," she confesses. If all goes well, he will start writing it at the end of 2021 and calculates that it will take a year to finish it. By 2023 it will already be in bookstores.