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Bienvenida Pérez Blanco, also known as Bienvenida Buck or Bienvenida Sokolow, (born 15 February 1957 in Valencia), is a writer, aristocrat by marriage and occasional collaborator of television programs. She held the title of Lady Buck after her first marriage and that of Condesa Sokolow, after her second marriage.

Childhood and youth
Bienvenida was born in the Barrio del Carmen, in Valencia, in 1957, the year of the Great Rial. Daughter of a humble knife and a housewife, her parents separated when she was very small and her mother emigrated to London. As a result, Bienvenida was brought up with his paternal grandmother, with whom he lived until his death. After a brief stay in the convent of the Charity of Valencia, he traveled to London to meet his mother in search of family stability. However, the relationship between mother and daughter did not go well at all and Bienvenida, after finishing her Spanish baccalaureate studies at the Spanish Convent of Gloucester Road, had to become independent. She did it in 1975, when she was eighteen years old and under the auspices of a well-positioned family that was fond of her. She worked as a statistical assistant for the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and for companies such as Halcrow or Mercedes Benz, places where she met the cream of the United Kingdom. At this time, she called herself Bernardette and began to frequent the best and most expensive London boutiques, financed by rich Arab businessmen.

Marriage with Sir Anthony Buck
In 1990, during a party at the home of one of his wealthiest lovers, Jamal Izzet, Bienvenida met the Secretary of State for the Navy and Tory deputy Sir Antony Buck, thirty years older than her, with whom he would marry three weeks later. The couple traveled in Concorde to Barbados, where they spent the honeymoon. However, the happiness was short lived and the fights soon began, partly because of Sir Antony's alcoholism problem. Their marriage lasted for only four years. During that time, Lady Buck had begun to see herself in secret with the head of the British High Staff, Sir Peter Harding, who sent her romantic letters and expensive presents several times a week. Sir Antony was aware of the relationship and although he threatened to uncover the story, he never acted. Several years later, in 1994, Bienvenida, who had already begun a new relationship with him would be her second husband, made a juicy exclusive with the newspaper News of the World, reactivating that relationship with Harding and publishing it. To do this, she met with Sir Peter at the Dorchester Hotel in London, recorded her intimate conversation, let herself be photographed by his side with romantic poses that included kisses and hugs. That warp brought him 175,000 pounds sterling and a holiday paid to the Far East. Harding resigned, and began an investigation in order to clarify whether he had exposed confidential secrets during the relationship. Catapulting all the covers of the international press, began its television tour of Europe. In Spain, he landed in Julián Lago's The Machine of Truth, for which he would collect four million pesetas, and to which many others would succeed him. With the divorce in hand, and in the midst of such a media maelstrom, decided to embark on a new marriage, this time with the Russian count Nicholas Sokolow.

Marriage with Nicholas, Count Sokolow
During 1995, Bienvenida married the wealthy art dealer, Nicholas Sokolow, Count Sokolow, member of an important Russian aristocratic family. Like all Welcome, this marriage was also destined to be ephemeral. She became pregnant even though she had to have an abortion due to health problems caused by the pregnancy. In 1996, Bienvenida published a memoir under the name of Countess Bienvenida Sokolow and returns to the pillory. Due to the hard work that was offered from the different Spanish TV channels, she moved to Spain, fixing her residence in the urbanization of Los Granados, in Marbella. Quickly integrated into the Marbella jet set, it alternates with characters such as Jesús Gil, Gunilla von Bismarck or Espartaco Santoni. Distance and detachment ended with marriage. In an interview for the tabloid The Daily Mail, Bienvenida acknowledges that her marriage ended because she had to suddenly return to Spain. Also in the interview she indicated that Nicholas Sokolow had been unfaithful with another woman. On the other hand, in another interview, this time for The Guardian, Bienvenida recognizes that the second marriage, which she calls a sadomasochistic affair, was a mistake.

Marriage with Eduardo Jimeno
In 1997, Bienvenida was a regular in programs such as Moros y Cristianos, Tómbola or José Luis Moreno's productions for Televisión Española, but she was tired and exhausted by her life in Marbella, and had decided to go back to England, however, during a party he met the wealthy lawyer Eduardo Jimeno, whom she would marry in 1999. The couple lived on horseback between London, Switzerland and Marbella. In 2000, Bienvenida moved back to London and set up a coaching company while her husband stayed in Spain, supposedly on the brink of ruin. In the year 2006, Bienvenida returns to jump to the Spanish present, this time as contestant of the reality show This kitchen is a hell, broadcast by TeleCinco in which she was the fourth finalist. Upon leaving the program, Bienvenida reunited with her mother on a television set and the stories of alleged abuse in her childhood came back to light. In addition, it maintained diverse confrontations with the actress Bárbara King, winner of the reality. In 2007, Bienvenida took advantage of the pull of her new popularity to publish a second book, Hazte Valer, this time a hybrid of essay and self-help book (see Published Works). Despite living apart, Bienvenida and her third husband never made the decision to divorce. In January 2008, Eduardo Jimeno died in Spain and Bienvenida, a widow, returned to Spanish television sets to tell the story. Months later, she would return again to report that he had reconnected with a lost sister whose existence she did not know. Her last work, so far, for television was her collaboration in the Sálvame de Telecinco program where she served as a teacher.

Present
Currently (2010), Bienvenida resides in the city of Liverpool, and according to her recent statements maintains a loving relationship with a young man of 28 years, and occasionally works in the real estate sector as a freelance. This year 2012, is presented to the mayor of Liverpool.

Published Works
Bienvenida has taken advantage of the pull of his hazardous life to write various works in which the autobiography, self-help and essay intermingle:
 * Bienvenida: The Making of a Modern Mistress (Londres, edited by Smith Gryphon and Blake Publising and serialized by The Daily Mail, 1996). 240 pages, ISBN 978-1-85685-112-1.
 * Hazte Valer (Barcelona, Ediciones B, 2007). 240 pages, ISBN 978-84-666-3386-4.
 * Power Play - English Edition Hazte Valer- (London, edited by Bienvenida Pérez, 2008). 250 pages, ISBN 978-0-9558256-0-6.

Television appearances in Spain (partial)

 * Viva la vida (2018), Telecinco
 * Sálvame diario (2013), Telecinco
 * Resistiré, ¿vale? (2010), Telecinco
 * Sálvame Deluxe (2010), Telecinco
 * Buenafuente (2008), La Sexta
 * El Club (2008), TV3
 * Si yo fuera tú (2007), Antena 3
 * En antena (2006), Antena 3
 * ¿Dónde estás, corazón? (2006, 2007, 2008), Antena 3
 * A tú lado (2006, 2007), Telecinco
 * Salsa Rosa (2006), Telecinco
 * Esta cocina es un infierno (2006), Telecinco
 * Crónicas Marcianas, Telecinco
 * ¡Mira quién viene esta noche! (7 de junio de 1997), Antena 3
 * Risas y estrellas (1997), TVE-1
 * Tómbola (1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2004), Canal Nou, Telemadrid, Canal Sur
 * Força Barça (21 de febrero de 1997), TV3
 * Moros y cristianos (programa de televisión) (15 February 1997, 31 May 1997), Telecinco
 * Sense títol 2 (6 February 1997), TV3
 * El espejo público (1996), Antena 3
 * Esta noche cruzamos el Mississippi (11 November 1995), Telecinco
 * ¿Qué pasó con...? (1995), Telemadrid, Canal Sur
 * Reportajes en Corazón, corazón (21 October 1995, 13 April 1996), TVE-1
 * Dret a parlar (10 June 1995), TVE-2 (Cataluña)
 * Reportaje de Programa de investigación (16 November 1994), Antena 3 Televisión
 * A la fresca (26 August 1994), Canal 9
 * Dora Dora (13 May 1994), TVE-1
 * Carta Blanca (1994), Canal 9
 * Dret a parlar (29 April 1994), TV3
 * ¡Hola Raffaella! (30 March, 6 and 7 April 1994), TVE-1
 * La máquina de la verdad (24 March 1994), Telecinco