Last Tuesday, Eugenio Derbez finally announced that Mariano Razo is the first selected to be part of his 5 adopted children in Tik Tok, so the athlete who has also participated in Exatlon, beat several influencers like Kunno or Mario Aguilar -at least in this first stage- who were competing to be part of the family of the acclaimed comedian.
According to Derbez, the criteria for choosing this first winner was very specific, since whoever was the first winner would appear on the official Tik Tok account of the Oscars.
“I tell you that in this video where I told the nominees, the Academy also allowed me to announce the first winner of the #HijosAdopTikToks contest, the academy launched a challenge called Filmmakers of Tik Tok in which they are inviting all the tik tokers to send videos to compete and we needed someone who knew about special effects, about cinema, to do different things, special things and I think that this guy we chose has many elements that can work to compete in this challenge”, said Eugenio Derbez.
He also stressed that the next winners, who will be announced on April 16, will be more diverse, so they will range from comedy to other skills.
It should be remembered that the Mexican comedian and producer Eugenio Derbez released a video several weeks ago, through Tik Tok, in which he assured that he will seek to expand his family with a process of adopting tiktokers and laid the foundations for the content creators of this social network to participate in the process.
He also stressed that only five of them could be part of his new family and that Anyone can join the challenge and it will not look at their gender, race, religion or amount of followers, but on the talent of each contestant.
After publishing the clip, many celebrities of this social network were launched as candidates to create content with Eugenio Derbez.
Among them he highlighted Kunno, dubbed by the community as “The King of TikTok”; Herly, with his character of Tomas the Incredulous, Sebas Mariscal, Sofi Bianchini and Karen Barrera; They all shared funny videos in which they showed their talents in addition to asking the creator of the comic series The P.Luche Family to adopt them.
But who is the winner?
Mariano Razo is a famous gymnast artist who has stood out for participating in the program of Exatlón Mexico, he is originally from Mexico City, is around 20 years old and came in fourth place in the youth Pan American Aracjú in Brazil, in addition to being a multiple National Olympics medalist.
He participated in the second season of the reality show broadcast by TV Azteca and He returned for season four, however, he was eliminated in late 2020.
Your presence on social media is also important, in Tik Tok he has 2.6 million followers and more than 46.9 million likes, in addition to the fact that his content is based mainly on performing gymnastic jumps or somersaults.
Regarding being the first winner of the viral contest, Mariano pointed out through his Instagram stories that He was stunned by the news and it was something he didn’t expect to happen.
I had not uploaded any of this from Eugenio, no I knew if it was true or not , suddenly messages began to arrive congratulating me and I didn’t even know, it’s a complete madness.
In the selected video, the athlete can be seen creating special effects such as: teleportation, duplicating himself, levitation, among other things.