Patricia Gaztañaga

Patricia Jesusa Gaztañaga Artolozaga (born 25 December 1966) is a Spanish retired television broadcaster. She began her media career broadcasting the Los 40 Principales radio programme when she was 17 years old and went on to join the Basque regional public service broadcaster EITB, presenting multiple programmes for it. Gaztañaga presented more than 1,500 episodes of the weekday Antena 3 afternoon show between 2001 and 2008 as well as other various short-lived programmes on the channel. She returned to EITB for three years from 2012 to 2015 and her final work in television before her retirement from the industry came with RTVE in 2016.

Biography On 25 December 1966, Gaztañaga was born in Bilbao. When she was 17 years old, she began her career in broadcasting when she did the Los 40 Principales radio programme. Gaztañaga signed a contract to work as a journalist at the network two years later. Al cabo de la calle with Jose Ignacio Rejón on the same television channel in 1997. and Números rojos.

In July 2001, Gaztañaga began presenting the weekday Antena 3 afternoon programme . She presented the afternoon television magazine programme Menta y chocolate in 2003, discussing social topics and the day's news. Two years later, Gaztañaga made a cameo appearance in the series Aquí no hay quien viva in which she presented Patricia's Diary. She made the decision to take some time off Patricia's Diary starting in November 2006 due to her being on maternity leave. She was replaced by for two months. She returned to presenting Patricia's Diary in February 2007, Gaztañaga made her final on-screen appearance on the programme on 9 July 2008.

In September 2008, Gaztañaga began hosting the Antena 3 live debating programme No es programa para viejo for Spain's youth and topics such as their education, housing, relationships with their friends and parents and their future in the Labour market were discussed. The programme was cancelled by Antena 3 the following month due to low ratings. In 2010, she presented the reality television programme Bodas Cruzadas on Cuatro which saw women provided the opportunity to marry their male partners. In September of that year, Gaztañaga hosted the Antena 3 reality show in which eight couples resided in a small space. The programme was cancelled ten days following the broadcast of its first episode. The following year, she presented Ongi Etorri that focused on Basque houses and the lifestyle of their owners and ¿Y ahora qué? in which convinced criminals recalled negative experiences. In May 2015, she began working as the broadcaster of the morning news magazine Como en casa en ningún sitio on ETB 2. In September 2015, she signed with RTVE to present the weekday reality entertainment show Cuestión de tiempo on La 1 in which contestants kept a special item in a box that was given to the person of their selection and the programme travelled to major Spanish settlements. Gaztañaga's role in the programme was to introduce the contestants to each other and the programme debuted on 8 February 2016. The programme was cancelled following the broadcast of nine episodes because of poor ratings. She does not plan to return to the television industry, and takes part in anti-Animal abuse campaigns.

Personal life Married to Iñaki Solaun, Gaztañaga has two children.