Cacho Fontana: 'I don't know if they want to extend my life'

04/26/2021 8:52 PM

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Updated 04/26/2021 8:52 PM

Faced with the false news about his death, the well-known announcer and entertainer Jorge Cacho Fontana, who has been hospitalized at the Fernández Hospital since Monday for a lung problem, confirmed this Monday afternoon the improvement in his state of health and at the same time pointed out that "within two days" he will have the medical discharge to return to the geriatric home where he lives.

"I don't know if they want to extend my life because I just turned 89 years old. It's a time shit," Fontana said during a brief telephone contact with the media.

The information about the death of the figure from popular cycles such as "Odol Question" and "Fontana Show" had been confirmed by a source from the family environment at the same time to a group of journalists.

It quickly spread through social networks and was wrongly given as valid by different means, including

Clarín

.

It was Antonella, one of Fontana's daughters, who refuted the information with a tweet a tweet: "I receive messages and calls of condolences. My father LIVES. I just spoke with him."

Then it was Cacho himself who communicated with radio Miter and América TV.

“I'm fine, it's just a collaborative visit that I'm doing at the clinic where I live.

There are sequences in which they are compared with each other, nothing more than that.

It is four days that I come to the Fernández Hospital, which is immense, very good care.

And I will return again to my beloved house.

I was able to talk to my children and all the people

.

There is a lot of literature on television headlines, ”Fontana said.

Born Norberto Palese in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Barracas, he turned 89 on Friday the 23rd and a few days before he had been

vaccinated against the coronavirus with a first dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine

, however the swab in Fernández determined that he had been infected again .

The entertainer was infected with coronavirus in the geriatric home in which he lives in recent years and, although he was initially an asymptomatic patient, he finally had to be hospitalized in July 2020 while he was suffering from pneumonia.

Fontana had returned to radio in 2019, at the age of 87, with the cycle Un Cacho de Nacional, on Radio Nacional (AM 870).

The programs had prestigious guests such as Juan José Campanella, Graciela Borges, Guillermo Francella, María Laura Santillán, Magdalena Ruiz Guiñazú, Héctor Larrea, Palito Ortega, Moria Casán, Jorge Lanata, among others.

The radio show featured a family crew.

His daughter Antonella was the producer of the cycle, while the ex-wife of the conductor, Liliana Caldini, also participated.