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Little was known about Antonio Tejado since in September 2019 he confessed his addiction to drugs and alcohol and decided to stay away from television.
“It is an episode of serious alcoholism that I have been carrying for many years because I have not been able to solve my life problems,” the nephew of the singer María del Monte acknowledged then in an interview for the magazine
Lecturas
.
Also known for being the father of the son of Rosario Mohedano, Rocío Jurado's niece, and for being a regular contributor to gossip programs and a contestant on
reality
shows , since then there have been several media outlets that have resorted to the typical news of "What happened?" “Was it Antonio Tejado?”
to update the brief information about his new life in his native Seville.
El Español
highlighted in June 2023 that a TikTok account had been opened in which he made his first steps as a flamenco singer.
“On a sentimental level, life also smiles at him,” suggested another Telecinco news item around the same time: “For more than a year he has been dating a Sevillian woman named Samara Terrón.
“This young woman has health studies and has been a fundamental pillar in giving the former television personality the serenity that she so needed.”
However, Tejado, 36, has returned to the media spotlight in a big way and for much less kind reasons than a new hobby or a new love.
The singer's nephew was imprisoned on Monday, February 12, for allegedly participating in the robbery of his aunt's home, committed in August.
He was key in the crime, to the point that he was the one who informed the rest of the gang of the day that aunt was going to be at his home “so that she could coercively open the safe in order to steal effects and money.” in cash”, indicates the order of the head of the Court of Instruction number 16 of Seville that ordered his entry into prison.
The document also highlights that he was the one who “provided the rest of the accused with the possibility of entering the property through the back door, allowing them to easily enter the interior.”
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This Friday, the singer and his wife, the journalist Inmaculada Casal, relived what happened in the courts of Seville, where they were summoned to testify as harmed by the assault.
María del Monte appeared “calm as far as possible” and confident in the judicial action.
“Reliving this again is very hard, but we trust in Justice and the presumption of innocence.
“This is nothing more than an investigation,” she declared to the crowd of journalists gathered around her at the entrance.
“Unfortunately, we have not recovered anything, but we do not lose hope.
The most important thing is that we are fine,” she said as she left, after two hours, asking the media and society for “understanding, caution and prudence,” as well as “help” to regain “normality” in life. daily.
The singer María del Monte, accompanied by her wife, upon leaving the Seville courts on Friday, where she was summoned to testify as a victim of the assault on her home in Gines (Seville).Raúl Caro (EFE)
The knowledge that, due to his proximity as a nephew, he had of the artist's routines and the blind spots of the home in Gines - those that were not protected by security cameras - is what makes Tejado the alleged mastermind of the robbery. .
The Civil Guard report, published by
El Diario de Sevilla,
reveals that
The afternoon before they were robbed, he called Casal and his aunt to make sure he had returned from Madrid.
That same day, she also called one of the gang leader's cell phones.
Tejado also “described the rooms of the property and provided access to the material and direct perpetrators of the violent robbery for theft with illicit benefit,” the order states.
The judge details that both María del Monte and his wife and three other people who were in the house that morning were tied up and held against their will "beating them, mistreating them and threatening to kill them."
All “suffered the violent and coercive robbery with disproportionate use of physical force by the perpetrators, generating a situation of great danger for the physical integrity of the victims and great anxiety and well-founded fear in them,” describes the magistrate.
The Civil Guard explains that the only one who was not handcuffed was the artist.
The events described reveal great danger, the use of extreme violence towards the victims, the use of dangerous means to achieve their ends and a notorious disregard for any rights of the victims in order to achieve their ends," the order reflects.
María del Monte and Antonio Tejado at the funeral home after the death of Juan Carlos Tejado, their brother and father, respectively, on May 10, 2021. 843/MONTSE/CORDONPRESS / Cordon Press
Since the news was announced, there have been reactions from family members, ex-partners and former set colleagues in search of an explanation for this criminal turn in Tejado's supposedly straightened life.
“I have witnessed with regret how falsehoods have been spread about me, as well as statements that threaten my privacy and reputation, violating my right to honor,” Tejado warned on Wednesday in a statement issued from the Seville prison through their lawyers.
In his statement before the judge last Monday he assured that he worked in his mother's bar and that his income came from there and from the help she gave him, although he was preparing exams for the Administration to improve his personal situation, according to
Diario .
of Sevilla
.
During his television period, Tejado did not go unnoticed either.
In 2014 he competed in
Survivors
, but abandoned due to low back pain.
Two years later, he returned to the island and retired again due to back problems.
But this time, he was accused of
storytitis
when shortly after images came to light of him diving headfirst into a pool without any sign of pain.
“I feel sorry for him,” Patricia Steisy, who coincided with him in the 2016 edition, tells EL PAÍS. “He always talked about how he was doing very well in business, that he had a great head, and he also liked to rub it in,” says Granada, known for her time in
Mujeres y hombres y viceversa (MYHYV)
.
She describes him as someone “nice and very fun”, who “whether he hangs out with a super important guy or with a bad guy.”
Even so, she does not consider him to be a “bad person,” but rather “he is completely lost.”
“It's much easier to ask for help than to get to this point, but sometimes shame can do it,” she says.
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Miriam Saavedra, who participated in the contest with them, is less benevolent: “For me she is a person without scruples and it does not surprise me that she did not have any scruples to do this harm to her aunt,” she responds to EL PAÍS.
The Peruvian actress and television collaborator describes him as “a disaster” and “totally immature.”
She acknowledges that she has not met him again since she left television, but that she maintains a cordial relationship with Candela Acevedo, Tejado's ex-partner, whom she says she caused “a lot of psychological damage.”
In 2019, Acevedo was the Sevillian's companion during his time on
Big Brother Duo
.
There they met Fede Rebecchi, who entered the house with his ex-partner Ylenia Padilla, who ended up having a brief romance with Tejado.
Even so, the Italian ―also known as
MYHYV―
has good memories of him: “He is a quite nice, educated guy, who really likes to live well, to have a very high standard of living,” he comments in a call with this newspaper.
Rebecchi, who now works as a lawyer, emphasizes the importance of the presumption of innocence in this case and points out that his former partner could have been expected to get involved “in a business with a high level of risk” or to “take advantage of well-known people.” contacts”, but never that he committed a crime like this.
Antonio Tejado and Ylenia Padilla at a 'GH Dúo' gala, in November 2019.Antonio Quilez_0711/2019 (/Cordon Press)
María del Monte, who introduced him to television thanks to her program
La noche con María,
is one of the few who, like the Italian, has defended her presumption of innocence.
Inmaculada Casal, for her part, was sincere this week before the
Andalusian public in the afternoon
: “We want to know the truth above all else and the sooner things are known, the better.”
Even so, Lecturas
magazine
revealed this Wednesday on the cover of its printed edition that the artist had distrusted her nephew for months and that she collaborated with the police in her arrest.
“From the beginning it was suspected that someone involved in the robbery was close to María and Inmaculada, since the assailants knew what valuable objects were in the house and where exactly to find them,” the article warns.
The same publication dedicates a few pages to the detainee's ex-wife, Alba Muñoz, with whom he has an 11-year-old daughter.
“All of us who knew Antonio could imagine many things, but not this,” she differs, as she “thought he was much better.”
In March 2022, in another article to rescue the current celebrity from oblivion,
El Español
mentioned sport as one of Tejado's main incentives to get his life back on track: “Boxing is exerting a good influence on Antonio, he is very aware and “He has surrounded himself with people who give him good advice.”
Now it is those same people who are attributed with the drift of Sevillian.
“These people give off a bad feeling, of being involved in fights, very bad lifestyle habits,” Muñoz describes them.
“The singer and her family were aware that Antonio frequented undesirable company,”
Lecturas
also explains .
Tejado's Instagram profile, which has more than 85,000 followers although he has not used it for years, is full of photos with these boxing friends who seem to be cut from the same pattern of muscles and tattoos, with which he poses in the gym, in bars or at the pool and to whom he refers to as his family.
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Sálvame
's former collaborator
was not part of the five hooded men who intimidated his aunt to steal jewelry and watches worth one million euros and 14,500 euros in cash, but he would be perfectly integrated into the gang, at least for the commission of that robbery. .
“This group of individuals connected and organized themselves over a long period of time,” says the judge, who also assumes that Tejado was aware of the violent practices they carried out on the tenants whose houses they robbed.
"Those investigated formed an authentic organized network [...] they arranged for the day and time they deemed appropriate, entering the interior of the home and using a dangerous instrument and with violence to obtain the proceeds of the theft."
The leader of the gang, organized under a pyramidal structure, according to investigation sources, was Arseny Garibyan,
El Ruso
, a professional boxer, champion of Spain in 2016, who was also arrested along with Tejado and has been imprisoned accused of the same crimes.
It is in 2020, when the lights of easy fame on reality shows
go off
, when he begins to share photos on social networks in the gym that Garibyan's father runs in the La Macarena neighborhood.
In fact, there are videos in which the singer's nephew promotes the place.
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Garibyian is an old acquaintance of the Sevillian police for criminal acts related to debt collection and coercion of businessmen.
The gang dismantled by the Civil Guard was dedicated to stealing vehicles to carry out violent robberies in the homes of residents with high purchasing power.
One of the detainees who was released last Monday led another network dedicated to robbing houses in Seville, which was dismantled in May 2023.
When he left the
GH Dúo
house five years ago , Tejado began to drink “up to a bottle of whiskey a day, to alleviate the pain of his soul,” he said in his interview with
Lecturas
.
“I went three days without sleep based on cocaine and whiskey.
I don't remember anything I did those days.
“I could have had a heart attack,” he confessed.
Then he left Madrid, returned to Seville and tried to get his life back on track.
His last public appearance was in 2021 at the funeral of his father, Juan Carlos Tejado, María del Monte's brother.
The singer, who had lost another brother in April 2020, preferred to stay at home with her mother, Bibiana Algaba, then 95 years old, from whom they decided to hide the news due to her advanced age.
Algaba died three months later.
Her troubles seem to give María del Monte no respite.