8 Curiosities that will make you like Xuxa even more

In the beginning, she was known as Pelé’s girlfriend. She had already made films of dubious quality and posed in men’s magazines. It didn’t take long, however, to move away from the image of the King of Football to become one of the most popular presenters in the country. She earned the nickname Queen of the Shorties. With a career spanning over three decades, Xuxa remains one of Brazil’s most famous celebrities.

We’ve put together some curiosities about Maria da Graça Meneghel from Rio Grande do Sul for you to remember or discover. come with the awesome.club read these stories about Xuxa.

In a time when fake news it was called a rumor, it was said that the presenter, who built her fame working with children, did not like the “little ones”. She spoke about it in an interview with presenter Fábio Porchat, as shown in the video above. In fact, she treated the little ones as equals. If she was mistreated, she returned the same treatment.

Xuxa has always spoken openly of her love for animals. She already had several and even included them in some of her songs, such as “A Voz dos Animais” and “Bichos”. In a text published in the magazine Contigo! the presenter stated that, since January 2018, she has been vegan. “But I don’t consider myself 100% because I still wear clothes made with animal material,” she wrote.

The two formed one of the most popular celebrity couples in Brazil in the early 1980s. The relationship ended decades ago, but is still remembered today. In a recent interview with the Argentine edition of the magazine “Caras”, however, Xuxa spoke of bad memories she has of dating. “In a book, he detailed relationships he had with other women at the same time he was with me. He talked like it was an open relationship, but it never was,” he said.

Participating in the YouTube channel “Porta Afora”, Xuxa revealed that she cannot resist shopping when she is travelling. “It’s easier for me to say where I’ve never gone shopping”, he revealed. And anyone who thinks she spends a lot for being rich is wrong. In the same video, she gives several tips on spending little, making quick purchases and shows that she likes to save, not to waste.

Xuxa’s breakthrough in Brazil gave the presenter the chance to launch a career outside the country. “El Show de Xuxa”, from the Argentine broadcaster Telefe, was broadcast to 17 countries in Latin America. In the US, an estimated 2 million people in the Spanish-speaking community watched “El Show,” which aired on Saturdays and Sundays. And in Spain, in 1992, “Xuxa Park” premiered on Tele 5, which two years later would have a Brazilian version on TV Globo.

Yeah, we were also shocked when we found out about this one. According to Marlene Mattos, who was Xuxa’s manager for a long time, the “Xou da Xuxa” does not come from “show” with the letter X, but from the verb to be. The name of the attraction was “Sou da Xuxa” in, let’s say, the language of X. Believe it or not.

In “Xou da Xuxa”, her second album, released in 1986, the presenter recorded songs by some of the most important composers in Brazil and even abroad. “Peter Pan” is a composition by Rita Lee and Roberto de Carvalho, “Garoto Problema” was by Roberto Frejat and Guto Goffi, from Barão Vermelho, and “Miragem Viagem (Black Orchid)”, with Patricia Marx on vocals, was a version from a song by the American Stevie Wonder.

The first Xuxa program was called Clube da Criança and aired in 1983, directed by Maurício Sherman. The girl from Rio Grande do Sul was 20 years old and had started her modeling career just seven years earlier, in 1976. On June 30, 1986, she debuted on TV Globo, there already presenting “Xou da Xuxa”.

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