ALERT: Marta G. Montero leaves the set crying when Cintora prevented her from speaking to Feijóo in the middle of the hunt
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The set of Malas Lenguas, La 2’s star night-time talk show, became the scene of unbearable tension this Saturday. What promised to be another installment of the program led to one of the most uncomfortable and difficult moments to manage for everyone present. The tension ended up dynamiting the live show when Marta Gómez Montero burst into tears and decided to leave the set, reporting having been “humiliated.” In a burst of pure indignation, the journalist used literature to seal her door: quoting Gabriel García Márquez himself in ‘The Colonel has no one to write to him’, she announced that she preferred to “eat shit” rather than continue putting up with Jesús Cintora’s treatment. Far from smoothing things over, the presenter, Cintora, reacted with visible bewilderment and a cold distance: “She will know,” he declared to the audience. The origin of the dispute On the table was analyzed the last intervention of Alberto Núñez Feijóo before the Circle of Basque Businessmen, where the leader of the Popular Party described the increase in absenteeism from work as “a cancer that we cannot pay for”, also suggesting that those who are on medical leave should earn less. Seen #MalasLenguasN looking for the origin of Marta Gómez Montero’s crying exit from the set, I did this. In the first seconds she makes it clear, it feels like she is not letting her speak, and then I go all the way until the final moment, in her face the whole time you can see that she is… pic.twitter.com/bmaHk5PAl2— DΛVID ƧΣGӨVIΛ (@dsegoviaatienza) July 12, 2026 Feijóo’s controversial words raised half of the table in arms. While profiles like Luis Arroyo harshly charged against Feijóo’s “insensitivity” for equating medical leave with a terminal illness, the most conservative sector of the program tried to redirect the framework conceptual.The debate soon ran aground in a succession of interruptions, crossed reproaches and an ambient noise that made understanding impossible. Far from putting out the fire, the presenter put his finger on the most painful sore in the Galician leader’s speech: the allusion to the “subsidized country.” “Do we have a subsidized country? I ask you,” Cintora released into the debate, launching an infallible bait to disarm the defensive strategy that Gómez Montero was trying to establish. This constant hand-to-hand combat imposed by the presenter was the straw that broke the journalist’s camel’s back. The alarm signals were already evident from the first minute: a cornered Gómez Montero, whose tone of voice began to betray the pressure of the live broadcast while she took refuge with obvious concern in the notes on her table, an unequivocal prelude to the scare that was about to happen. The debate continued with the intervention of Javier Daroca, who stated that the leader of the PP “He had screwed up” because he considered that his words had hurt sensitivities. After this assessment, the presenter gave the speaking turn to Gómez Montero, but the collaborator declined to respond and addressed the program host directly. “I’m not going to answer, Jesús. You are not going to humiliate me again. I feel absolutely humiliated,” she said with a broken voice. Before leaving the set, the journalist added: “I have endured to pay the bills, I have endured for my children, but I can’t take it anymore.” After the collaborator’s abandonment, Cintora continued with the broadcast alluding to the fact that she herself had “decided to leave.” The discomfort on the set was noticeable, and Esther Palomera was quick to recognize that this “was not a dish of good taste for anyone.” Before going to publicity, the presenter settled the matter by ensuring that no one was humiliated on his program. A succession of apologies After resuming the broadcast and seeing the great commotion and controversy that had been generated on social networks, the presenter dedicated a few words to the collaborator: “You are very invited to return to this program whenever you want.” For his part, Cintora justified Gómez’s departure by claiming that he had only asked him to wait for his turn to speak. In the video you can see how, with a nervous grimace, she adds that she would receive the appropriate apologies if she had felt offended by the situation.
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