“I am 96 years old and I still work and I wake up every day wanting to be on television, to connect with people, it really is almost a miracle. Thank you very much for this fantastic award, ”she expressed the “Lunch Diva” upon receiving the feather statuette, made by the renowned goldsmith Juan Carlos Pallarols.
Mirtha Legrand was one of the winners on Saturday night at the gala for the Journalist Day who performs the Costa Galana Hotel. The actress from “Los martes orquídeas” received the award “Don Manuel Álvarez Argüelles”, a distinction in honor of the founder of the hotel chain. The award was presented by Claudia and Maria del Carmen Alvarez Argüelles, CEO and president of the company, for the 55 years of the program “Having lunch with Mirtha Legrand”.
On other occasions, the award was received by other figures such as Nelson Castro, Magdalena Ruiz Guiñazú, Mariano Grondona, Jorge Lanata, Joaquín Morales Solá, Marcelo Longobardi, Jorge Fernández Díaz and Carlos PagnYo. In this sense, the diva clarified: “I am not a journalist, I am a driver, which is not the same, journalism deserves a lot of respect.”
During the evening he was also recognized Esteban Edul for his coverage of Qatar World Cup 2022in which the national soccer team triumphed, and the founder of Infobae, the lawyer Daniel Haddad, for his journalistic career. “It is an honor for us to organize the XVIII delivery of the Don Manuel Álvarez Argüelles Awardan event that pays homage to those who have left a significant mark in the world of communications and journalism,” he said. Claudia Alvarez Arguelles.
“Journalism is an insatiable passion, which can only be digested and humanized by its confrontation with reality,” concluded the hostess. The statuette, created by Pallarols, was forged and chiseled in the shape of a feather, using 18th century craft techniques. The object is made entirely by hand and was conceived as a unique piece that is signed as such on the back.
For his part, Legrand also took advantage of the occasion to say that he is in talks to return to his traditional lunch program. “I am in talks to return to television, I don’t know if it will be in America or in Thirteen, but I will return to work until the end of my days, until God gives me health, “said the actress’s grandmother Juanita Viale. “Let’s enjoy that life is short, as I always say, how they see you, how they treat you. If they see you badly, they mistreat you. And if they see you well, they hire you, ”she closed her between thunderous applause.
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