Eddie Miro (born 1936 in San Juan, Puerto Rico), is a famous television show host in Puerto Rico.
Miro grew in the San Juan area of Santurce . In 1953, he graduated from high school as one of the "most likely to succeed" students (his school picked more than one student for that title; Miro was chosen in the entertainment area).
Miro is perhaps better known as the show host of Telemundo Puerto Rico's "El Show de las 12" ("The 12 PM Show"). As a show host, Miro outlasted WAPA-TV and, later on, Televicentro competition such as Luis Vigoreaux and his son Luisito, and Luis Antonio Rivera ("Yoyo Boing"), who were among the show hosts that worked on "El Show de las 12"s main competitor, WAPA's "El Show del Mediodia". It should be mentioned that Eddie Miro outlasted Luis Vigoreaux in part because of Vigoreaux's murder in 1983.
1960s
Miro began in the entertainment business as a singer, writer and comedian. His big break in the entertainment business, however, came in 1964, when the famous actor turned television producer Paquito Cordero offered him a job as show host of "El Show de las 12", a new program that was about to begin at Telemundo, then known as "Telemundo channel 2". "El Show de las 12"s first broadcast was on January of 1965.
Miro became a teen idol across Puerto Rico for the next few years. He utilized his abilities as a comic during the show as well, mixing them with his work as show host. His style also gained him acclaim among Puerto Rico's television critics.
Miro hosted the show for the forty years it ran on Puerto Rican television. In between, he got to meet many famous people, both locals and foreigners. Some of the celebrities he worked with were Luis Antonio Cosme , Otilio Warrington, Dagmar, Loubriel , the members of El Gran Combo, Machuchal and others. The foreigners he met included Celia Cruz, Marylin Pupo (who resides in Puerto Rico but is Cuban), Jose Luis Rodriguez and many others.
1970s-1980s
Miro expanded his career as a show host during the 1970s and 1980s, hosting such shows as "Salsa, Sabado en la Noche " (Salsa, Saturday at Night"), and "Adelante Juventud " ("Come Forward, Youth!"). He also worked with Deborah Carthy-Deu, among others.
During the 1980s, "El Show de las 12"s opening consisted of a cartoon version of Eddie Miro dancing salsa and smiling. In 1989, the show included a section in which he shared gossip with Kobbo Santarrosa 's doll, "La Condesa del Bochinche" ("The Countess of Gossip"), a doll which preluded Santarrosa's current doll, "La Comay".
1990s
Miro's daughter, Dana Miro , went on to have a short career in the entertainment business as an actress and show host. Perhaps ironically, she married Luisito Vigoreaux during the 1990s, linking Miro with the family of his old competitor, Luis Vigoreaux.
2000s
In 2003, Eddie Miro was diagnosed with colon cancer. He refused to take time off work, keeping on his daily schedule of hosting "El Show de las 12" even as he had cancer.
Miro, Rafael Hernandez Colon's daughter and Raymond Dalmau became spokespersons for the testing and prevention of colon cancer in Puerto Rico once Miro was declared to be cured.
On January, 2005, shortly after celebrating forty years of "El Show de las 12" on the air, Eddie Miro was told the show could not continue on longer, due in part to the changes in Telemundo Puerto Rico's production department. The usually cool behaved Miro went to a radio station and angrily declared that he is not rich, calling Telemundo Puerto Rico's producer Tony Mojena the television station's "golden boy".
See also
External link
Miro as a youngster, in Spanish
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