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Mariví Fernández Palacios, Veteran Social Chronicle Journalist and María Teresa Campos Collaborator, Dies at 82

The Asociación de la Prensa de Madrid confirmed her death in Madrid on September 21.

Overview

  • Fernández Palacios died on Sunday, September 21, 2025, in Madrid at age 82, with no cause of death reported.
  • She became widely known on Telecinco’s Día a día (1996–2004) after earlier work with María Teresa Campos on TVE programs.
  • Her career began in radio, including collaborations on Cadena SER’s Hoy por Hoy, and extended to RNE and Onda Cero.
  • Specialized in social reporting, she covered the infantas’ weddings in the 1990s and reported from Hollywood at the 2000 Oscars, securing an on-the-spot interview with Pedro Almodóvar.
  • She authored an unauthorized Pablo Alborán biography in 2014 and was remembered by colleagues for a respectful, non-sensational style.