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Rosa López rejects Operación Triunfo 25th anniversary special
Rosa López says she will decline some invitations to events marking the 25th anniversary of Spain’s TV talent show Operación Triunfo.
López, now 45, won the show’s first season, which began in 2001, and went on to build a music career.
She says she has often attended events without pay, giving up time she could have spent on paid work.
She also says the show has not supported her music and career during the rest of the year.
She rejects the idea that winning obliges her to attend every reunion or anniversary event.
López says she feels affection rather than resentment toward the show and its audience.
She plans to put her own priorities first as anniversary events are being planned, though no official date for the special has been announced.
Rosa López says she will turn down invitations to the Operación Triunfo 25th-anniversary special.
She says she has often attended programme events without being paid, giving up other work to do so.
López says she receives no support for her music from the programme and does not want attendance to be treated as an obligation.
She says she is grateful to the programme and its audience, and that her decision is not driven by resentment.
The anniversary reunion has been reported as delayed and has no official date.
- Who
- Rosa López, winner of the first edition of Operación Triunfo.
- What
- She says she will reject some invitations for the programme’s 25th-anniversary special.
- When
- She announced her decision in October 2026; the special has no official date.
- Where
- She announced it in a video on social media, including Instagram.
- Why
- She says she has often attended without pay and feels the programme has not supported her music.
This story does not have two clearly opposing sides.
The first edition of Operación Triunfo began.
Diario AS reported that López would reject some proposals related to the anniversary and criticised the lack of support she says she receives.
El Mundo and 20Minutos reported that López did not intend to take part in the anniversary special.
- Age
- 45
- First edition
- Began on 22 October 2001
- Anniversary
- 25 years of Operación Triunfo
- Decision
- López says she will turn down some invitations to the anniversary events
- Special date
- No official date stated
- Payment
- López says she has attended programme events without being paid
3 sources
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What people are saying
There is no sense in the artists from OT 1 being called every year as if they were being invited to a wedding and had to be there no matter what. And they do not pay us.
When they call me, I go, even if I am not paid, and you dedicate your time to not doing other things that could bring you money so you can be somewhere else.
I spend the whole year working without any support for my music, for me as an artist, as a woman, when it is already hard in this world to be a woman and work, and then there is age.
My greatest triumph has been getting to know myself, and my greatest prize has been you, the audience, who make it possible for every concert to be full.