Raquel Sánchez-Silva

Raquel Sánchez Silva (born 13 January 1973 in Plasencia, Cáceres, Spain) is a Spanish television presenter and writer.

After studying journalism, she started working for a local television in Plasencia. After that, she was a news anchor on Telemadrid and she started working for Canal+ (Noche de los Oscars, La hora wiki) and Cuatro (Soy lo que como, Noche Cuatro, Idénticos, Noche Manga, Oído cocina, a special episode of Supernanny, and special shows about series such as House and Grey's Anatomy). When Cuatro was merged into the Mediaset España group, she started working in reality shows on Telecinco. In 2015, she was hired by subscription platform Movistar+ to host, beginning in 2016, a daily talk show titled Likes on the platform's new flagship channel #0. In 2017, she was announced as the presenter of Maestros de la Costura, the Spanish version of The Great British Sewing Bee, on TVE. On 29 October 2018, she began hosting the daily talk show Lo siguiente, also on TVE.

TV programs

 * Deep Fake Love, host (2023)
 * Lo siguiente TVE (The Next Thing), (2018–2019)


 * Maestros de la Costura, TVE (2018–present) (Spanish version of The Great British Sewing Bee)
 * Likes, (2016-2017)
 * Gran Hermano VIP, (2015) (Spanish version of Celebrity Big Brother)
 * Deja sitio para el postre, (2013)
 * Expedición Imposible, (2013) (Spanish version of Expedition Impossible)
 * Perdidos en la ciudad, (2012)-(2013) (Spanish version of The Tribes Are Coming)
 * Perdidos en la Tribu, (2012) (Spanish version of Ticket To The Tribes)
 * El Cubo, (2012) (Spanish version of The Cube)
 * Acorralados, (2011) (Spanish version of The Farm)
 * Supervivientes, (2011)-(2014)-(2015) (Spanish version of Survivor)
 * Pekín Express, (2009-2010) (Spanish version of Peking Express)
 * Sanfermines, (2009)
 * Visto y Oído (Seen and Heard), (2008)
 * Ajuste de cuentas (Score Settling), (2008)
 * S.O.S. Adolescentes, (S.O.S Teenagers), (2007)-(2008)
 * ¡Qué desperdicio! (What a Waste!), (2007)
 * Soy lo que como (I am what I eat), (2007)
 * Supernanny, (2006) (Spanish version, special episode)
 * Oído cocina (Gotcha in the Kitchen), (2006)
 * Noche Cuatro (Cuatro Night), (2005)
 * Superhuman, (2005)
 * La hora wiki (''The Wiki Hour), (2004–2005)
 * Telediario, (1998)

Books

 * Selección y tratamiento de la información en los telediarios: estudio sobre los telediarios de máxima audiencia de TVE y A3, (1995)
 * Cambio príncipe por lobo feroz (I Exchange a Prince for a Bad Wolf), (2008)
 * Mañana, a las seis (Tomorrow, at six), (2014)

Personal life
In 2012 she married the Italian cameraman Mario Biondo, who died after less than a year; the death was ruled as unintentional suicide by three coroners and after the Spanish and Italian judiciary investigated the case. However the Italian judge Nicola Aiello in his statement regarding the filing of the case as suicide, heavily contested the first "absolutely summary" investigations carried out in Spain, in which he found "several gaps", and also highlighted how a series of investigations (especially wiretaps) if ordered immediately after the fact (which took place on the 30th May 2013) could have led "to the truth", which would not be that of a suicide: "The elements taken from the public prosecutor's file deny the suicide thesis and suggest that Biondo was killed by an unknown hand and subsequently placed in a position capable of simulating a suicide". A "truth which - writes the judge - was made impossible to find due to investigative delays attributable to the shortcomings of initial investigations", i.e. those carried out in Spain. He also cited Raquel Sanchez Silva's declarations which "present innumerable critical points and are full of contradictions and revealing indicators of mendacity", the hematoma on Biondo's head, and the perfect state of the objects on the bookcase from which the victim was hanging - incompatible with the body spasms that occur in deaths by hanging - as homicide pointers. Since 2014, Sánchez-Silva has been in a relationship with Argentine audiovisual producer Matías Dumont. Together they have two children: Sánchez-Silva gave birth to twins Bruno and Mateo on 21 September 2015.