Magaly Jesús Medina Vela (Huacho March 31, 1963) is a controversial and criticized Peruvian Hostess

Presenter

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 who claims to be journalist

Journalist

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 of the TV show "Magaly TeVe" that airs on ATV

ATV (Peruvian Network)

ATV or Andina de Radiodifusión y Television shortly known as ATV, is a Peruvian television network founded in 1969, after unsuccessful attempt on early 1970s and after the political turmoil in Peru the station was closed...

. She questions and judges the lifestyle of Peruvian celebrities, whose world she calls Chollywood, the union of the words: "cholo" and "Hollywood

Hollywood, Los Angeles, California

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". Through her TV program she gossips the lives of famous people, airing reports of their day-to-day news.

History

Her foray into the media came in the mid 90s on the journalistic debate program "Fuego Cruzado" in which, along with other journalists and linguist Martha Hildebrandt

Martha Hildebrandt

Martha Luz Hildebrandt Pérez-Treviño is a Peruvian linguist and politician. Martha Hildebrandt was the second woman to occupy the Presidency of the Congress of the Republic of Peru in 1999...

 (member of the Peruvian Academy of Language) harshly questioned and criticized well-known and now disappeared television presenter Augusto Ferrando, whom they described as vulgar for his style on his former program "Trampolín a la Fama". This happened on a program which had previously announced a "tribute" to this popular television, entertainment, and horse-back riding character in Latin America.

Her start in Peruvian television was on 'The News' on ATV

ATV (Peruvian Network)

ATV or Andina de Radiodifusión y Television shortly known as ATV, is a Peruvian television network founded in 1969, after unsuccessful attempt on early 1970s and after the political turmoil in Peru the station was closed...

. It consisted of only a sequence of performances called "Regardless of the Consequences". Later it became its own show. Some time later it was named Magaly TeVe, and still remains the same today. The program was broadcast several times by Frecuencia Latina (Peruvian network) and then returned to ATV.

Ampays

This is a controversial word in Quechua origin, used to determine situations in which someone is found doing something hidden against their will. The success of the space of Mrs. Medina is due to the famous "ampays" (recorded with a camera hidden characters from the television and sport in compromising situations), which had won her a program whose line is between first places, seeking thereby generating shameful and outrageous situations.

Nickname

Magaly Medina claims getting the truth out to the people and catching famous celebrities doing shameful things, which most of them deny doing even with proof (video footage). Her show is called "Magaly TV" because it sounds like "Magaly te ve" ("Magaly sees you") in reference to the constant stalking of famous Peruvian people.