The mystery behind the real name of El Chavo del 8

In August 2020, it was announced that the popular series El Chavo del 8, written by Roberto Gómez Bolaños and directed by Enrique Segoviano, it will cease airing worldwide. The short story surprised audiences in Latin America due to the relevance it gained in the last half of the 20th century.

After the message published by the son of chespirito, soap opera producer Roberto Gómez Fernández, some anecdotes and secrets of the series have been revealed which had not been revealed during the best years of the program and which viewers came to comment on with effusion on social networks.

This is how the public learned, for example, that the trip the cast took to the beaches of Acapulco in the late 1970s to record three episodes in the port, corresponded to an advertising strategy of the head of Televisa Group at that time, Emilio Azcárraga Milmo, who had just acquired and renovated a luxurious hotel in the heavenly tourist destination. Although another one concerned the real name of the protagonist.

One of the mysteries of the series is the origin of the main character, El Chavo del 8, Well, although a lot has never been revealed about how it happeneda few nods over the decades have given more clues as to what his life was like before arriving in the famous neighborhood.

According to the book Chavo’s Diary of 8, text published by Roberto Gómez Bolaños in the 90saspects of the origin of the fictional character who reached a large number of countries beyond Spanish-speaking countries are revealed.

“the child“yes, he was an orphan and never knew his parents, since from birth the child was abandoned in a crèche. That’s the reason he stayed in an orphanage for years, from where at one time he escaped after being adopted by no one.

The book tells how one stormy day, The boy He walked to the neighborhood that was his home until the iconic series last aired. In the building, he was received by an elderly woman who lived in a secondary courtyard of the district, in apartment number eight, until the death of the woman. From then on, he kept the nickname that accompanied him throughout history.

After a brief stint in various departments, the barrel located in the main patio was their place of refuge for shelter and play; according to versions of psychological interpretations, this barrel would be symbolic of the maternal womb and the feeling of security, to which the character has never had access.

Derived from this information, followers of the saga burst into a series of theories and hypotheses that sought find the real name of the character, who has always been known by his nickname.

Here’s how the alleged name came out: Rodolfo Pietro Filiberto Raffaello Guglielmia name of Italian origin that followers took for granted because Bolaños himself mentioned it in a fragment of the book published in 1995, but without delving into it or giving other clues.

Such information This has never been confirmed and approved by the Gómez family or by Florinda Meza, who has been his partner for decades. and with whom he lived until his last days. Neither the Chespirito Group He clarified his position on the matter.

Similarly, It surprises that chespirito would have given his character the same name as the famous actor Rodolfo Valentinowho was a famous movie star in the 1920s.

Note that in some episodes of the series, when asked his name, the character manages to answer “Fili…” before being interrupted, which is why it was never possible to find out.

So given the inconsistenciesit seems that the playwright dubbed as a “Shakespeare chiquito” took the secret to the grave.

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