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Karmele Marchante
Born	María del Carmen Marchante Barrobés September 15, 1946 (age 73) Tortosa (Spain)
Education	University of Navarra
Occupation	TV personality
Notable work	Sálvame Campamento de verano La Noria Eurovision Song Contest Survivor Spain TNT A tu lado Día a día Como la vida Tómbola Pasa la vida La Tarde
Spouse	Diego Soto (2010-2013)

Karmele Marchante (final draft)

María del Carmen Marchante Barrobés (born September 15, 1946 in Tortosa, Tarragona, Catalonia), better known as Karmele Marchante, is a Spanish journalist specialized in tabloid journalism.

Early career

Karmele Marchante was born in Tortosa, Tarragona (Catalonia), daughter of the colonel of infantry Carlos Marchante Alonso (1910-2000) and Carmen Barrobés Llatge (deceased on the April 10, 2005). Her mother came from a wealthy family from Barcelona and had been part of Auxilio Social (A humanitarian organization of the fascist party FET during Francisco Franco's dictatorship). She had two siblings, Carlos and María del Rosario. (This is a mistake)

She studied at the University of Navarra and at the Official Journalism School of Barcelona. In 1981, along with María Rodríguez Bayraguet, she translated Ayatollah Khomeini's book Political, philosophical, social and religious principles. She started working as a journalist in print media both in Barcelona and Madrid, in UNESCO and as a correspondent in many countries. She soon jumped to the small screen, where she became a well-known personality in Spain. She developed her first experiences on TV in news programs, such as TVE's Informe Semanal. She was also the director of Star magazine (a Spanish comic magazine) during its last years, which featured Michael Jackson in 1984. This magazine was one of the pioneers of counterculture in Spain.

Television

During the 1980s she worked for TVE, where she started doing social commentary for the TV program La tarde. Besides collaborating in written press with magazines like Interviú or Época, she hosted a gossip TV program in Antena 3 in 1990. In 1993, she started to appear in TVE programs like Pasa la vida, with María Teresa Campos, ¡Hola Raffaella! or La máquina de la verdad with Julián Lago. In 1996 she followed María Teresa Campos to work with her in the TV show Día a día in Telecinco. During this time, she balanced her appearances on television with writing her column for the magazine Tiempo.

Tómbola

Specialized in what is known as tabloid journalism, her popularity rose thanks to Tómbola, a TV show broadcasted by Canal 9 and Telemadrid between 1997 and 2004. It was an innovative format in Spain, in which a few journalists —including Karmele Marchante herself— would interrogate the guest celebrities about their personal life, often in an aggressive and judgemental way.

This show, along with this kind of journalism, was widely denounced by critics and even political parties, due to the show's public funding. However, it had the support of its loyal audience, which kept it seven years on air.

In the specific case of Karmele, her verbal confrontations with Jesús Mariñas, one of her collegues on set, became famous, just as much as his then famous catchphrase “shut up, Karmele!” (in Spanish: "¡que te calles Karmele!"). In 2002 the journalist was protagonist of a well-known scandal caused by her accusations of fraud against the actress and presenter Carmen Sevilla, related to her participation in a Disabled Care Foundation. It ended with a judicial ruling of the Provincial Court of Madrid in which the journalist was sentenced for illegitimate interference with the right to honour. In March 2009, the Supreme Court confirmed the judgement of the Provincial Court of Madrid stating that the journalist had not been able to prove the extreme accusations expressed in her article. Karmele was sentenced to pay €6000 in compensation to Carmen Sevilla who was forced to allocate that money for charitable purposes, as she announced in her lawsuit.

Other collaborations, Telecinco and Sálvame

After the cancellation of Tómbola, Karmele continued her career in nationwide channels, collaborating in celebrity gossip programs such as Como la vida (2003-2004), on Antena 3, or on Telecinco: Día a día (2004), by María Teresa Campos, TNT (2004-2007), by Jordi González or A tu Lado (2004-2007), by Emma García. Temporada Alta, program of the Balearic regional channel IB3, also stands out.

In 2008, she participated in the survival show Supervivientes (in English: Survivors), which Telecinco also broadcasts. The journalist was sometimes reprehended by the other contestants due to her physical condition and her peculiar personality, especially during group challenges. Karmele was the 6th eliminated from the competition, while Miriam Sánchez would later be the winner.

In 2009, she began collaborating as fellow guest in the program Sálvame (in English: "Save Me"), presented by Jorge Javier Vázquez, from Telecinco. However, she left the program in March 2011, due to the many disagreements with her teammates on set, the most controversial being her disputes with her co-worker Mila Ximénez. Apart from being a professional journalist in the program, Karmele contributed with comical moments such as her admission to the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest (see section). A few months later she returns to Sálvame and tried to fix the disagreements with her teammates, but in 2016 she definitively left the program.

She worked as a celebrity interviewer in the program La Noria (2008-2012) until it was cancelled due to lack of advertisers.

On July 16, 2013, Karmele began participating in the new competition on Telecinco called Campamento de Verano. The reality show was presented by Joaquín Prat from the central studios of Mediaset España/Telecinco and co-hosted by Sonia Ferrer from the Sierra de Gredos.

Television Career

• 1981-1984: Informe semanal (TVE).
• 1984-1987: La tarde (TVE).
• 1993-1996: Pasa la vida (TVE).
• 1993, 1994: La máquina de la verdad (Telecinco).
• 1994: Dret a parlar (TVE).
• 1996-2002, 2004: Día a día (Telecinco).
• 1996, 1997: L’ou o la gallina (TVE).
• 1997-2004: Tómbola (Channel 9 and regional television).
• 1997, 1998: Moros y cristianos (Telecinco).
• 1997-2004: Crónicas marcianas (Telecinco).
• 2000: Bravo por la tarde (Canal Sur)
• 2003: Como la vida (Antena 3).
• 2002: Abierto al anochecer (Antena 3).
• 2004-2007: A tu lado (Telecinco).
• 2004-2007: TNT (Telecinco).
• 2007: ¿Dónde estás corazón? (Antena 3), as a guest.
• 2008-2012: La Noria (Telecinco), as an interviewer and a talk-show guest.
• 2008: Supervivientes (Telecinco), as a contestant (7th place).
• 2009-2014: Sálvame Deluxe (Telecinco).
• 2009-2016: Sálvame (Telecinco).
• 2013: Campamento de verano (Telecinco), as a contestant (7th place).
• 2015: Trencadís (8tv), as a guest.
• 2018: Espejo público (Antena 3), as a guest.
• 2019: Espejo público (Antena 3), as a guest.

Radio

In 1988, after Jesús Mariñas' dismissal, Karmele replaced him in the program Protagonistas by Luis del Olmo on COPE. In the summer of 2015, her signing was made public, as team member of the program La vida on Catalunya Ràdio.

Eurovision 2010

In 2009, Sálvame announced that Karmele would participate in the preselection for the Eurovision Song Contest 2010, hosted by Televisión Española, with the stage name Pop Star Queen. The journalist submitted three songs to the contest "La Carmelita" and "Las mujeres al poder" and "Soy un Tsunami"); the latter, in English "I am a Tsunami" was selected.

Karmele released her music video on Christmas Eve with some small changes. On January 18, 2010, her single was officially admitted by RTVE as one of the 313 best songs. Her submission was rejected by some of the performers that participated in the selection process and Eurovision fans critizised it severely. However, "Soy un Tsunami" debuted at number one on Internet polls, gaining over 100,000 votes and therefore surpassing the second classified, Coral Segovia, by 30,000 votes. Nonetheless, three days after voting started, her proposal was dismissed, since it came to light that some parts of "I am a Tsunami" didn't comply with the EBU's regulation for the Eurovision Song Contest. A website created for the event made public that some parts of the song were taken from popular songs during Franco's dictatorship. In fact, Karmele herself had sung these verses in other TV shows before October 1, 2009, (the date set to make the festival songs public) and therefore the track couldn't be considered new. Besides, a part of the song was taken from Sálvame, broadcasted during summer 2009.

Furthermore, the song included the name of a company, Carrefour, which is also against the rules, even though the singer argued that the word meant 'crossing' in French. The music video was eventually broadcasted on Telecinco before it was sent to TVE, although the last had an exclusivity right.

Discography

Singles

• "Soy un Tsunami" ("I am a tsunami")
• "Karmele, la reina de la pista"

Other songs

• "La Karmelita, niña bonita"
• "Las mujeres al poder"

Literary work

Her literary work consists of many articles and two books. The first, Arquetipos y arquetipas: la fauna rosa, talks about different Spanish celebrities and was published in 2003 by Editorial Planeta.

Her second book, Los juguetes de Karmale Marchante, is of a more erotic nature. It was published in 2011 by La Esfera and according to the author "this book is made for everyone to think, like me, that sex is good, fun, shame-free and so necessary that it should be subsidized by Social Security, along with its toys and charms". She mentions different sex toys like Ben Wa balls or herbal aphrodisiacs, and sex positions like the “helicopter” or the “naughty rabbit”.

She also supports the transgender and gay community in general, so two transgender women were featured in the music video for "Soy un Tsunami". Because of this, she was chosen to give a speech at the Pride Parade in Madrid, in 2010.
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Karmele Marchante (original)

María del Carmen Marchante Barrobés (born September 15, 1946 in Tortosa, Tarragona, Catalonia), better known as Karmele Marchante, is a Spanish journalist specialized in tabloid journalism.

Early career

Karmele Marchante was born in Tortosa, Tarragona (Catalonia), daughter of the colonel of infantry Carlos Marchante Alonso (1910-2000) and Carmen Barrobés Llatge (deceased on the April 10, 2005). Her mother came from a wealthy family from Barcelona and had been part of Auxilio Social (A humanitarian organization of the fascist party FET during Francisco Franco's dictatorship). She had two siblings, Carlos and María del Rosario. (This is a mistake)

She studied in the University of Navarra and in the Offical Journalism School of Barcelona. In 1981, along with María Rodríguez Bayraguet, she translated Ayatollah Khomeini's book Political, philosophical, social and religious principles. She started working as a journalist in print media both in Barcelona and Madrid, in UNESCO and as a correspondent in many countries. She soon jumped to the small screen, where she became a well-known personality in Spain. She developed her first experiences on TV in news programs, such as TVE's Informe Semanal. She was also the director of Star magazine (a Spanish comic magazine) during its last years, which featured Michael Jackson in 1984. This magazine was one of the pioneers of counterculture in Spain.

Television

During the 80s she worked for TVE, where she started doing social commentary for the TV program La tarde. Besides collaborating in written press with magazines like Interviú or Época, she was the host of a gossip TV program in Antena 3 in 1990. In 1993, she started to appear in TVE programs like Pasa la vida, with María Teresa Campos, ¡Hola Raffaella! or La máquina de la verdad with Julián Lago. In 1996 she followed María Teresa Campos to work with her in the TV show Día a día in Telecinco. During this time she balanced her appearances on television with writing her column for the magazine Tiempo.

Tómbola

Specialized in what is known as tabloid journalism, her popularity rised thanks to Tómbola, a TV show broadcasted by Canal 9 and Telemadrid between 1997 and 2004. It was an innovative format in Spain, where a few journalists -including Karmele Marchante herself- would interrogate the guest celebrities about their personal life, often in an aggressive and judgemental way.

This show, along with this kind of journalism, was widely denounced by critics and even political parties, due to the show's public funding. However, it had the support of its loyal audience, which kept it seven years on air.

In the specific case of Karmele, her verbal confrontations with Jesús Mariñas, one of her collegues on set, became famous, just as much as his then famous phrase “shut up, Karmele!” (in Spanish: "¡que te calles Karmele!"). In 2002 the journalist was protagonist of a well-known scandal caused by her accusations of fraud against the actress and presenter Carmen Sevilla, related to her participation in a Disabled Care Foundation. It ended with a judicial ruling of the Provincial Court of Madrid in which the journalist was sentenced for illegitimate interference with the right to honour. In March 2009, the Supreme Court confirmed the judgement of the Provincial Court of Madrid stating that the journalist had not been able to prove the extreme accusations expressed in her article. Karmele was sentenced to pay €6000 in compensation to Carmen Sevilla and the presenter was forced to allocate that money for charitable purposes, as she announced in her lawsuit.

Other collaborations, Telecinco and Sálvame

After the cancellation of Tómbola, Karmele continued her career in nationwide channels, collaborating in celebrity gossip programs such as Como la vida (2003-2004), on Antena 3, or on Telecinco: Día a día (2004), by María Teresa Campos, TNT (2004-2007), by Jordi González or A tu Lado (2004-2007), by Emma García. Temporada Alta, program of the Balearic regional channel IB3, also stands out.

In 2008, she participated in the survival show Supervivientes (in English: Survivors), which Telecinco also broadcasts. The journalist was sometimes reprehended by the other contestants due to her physical condition and her peculiar personality, especially during group challenges. Karmele was the 6th eliminated from the competition, while Miriam Sánchez would later be the winner.

In 2009, she began collaborating as fellow guest in the program Sálvame (in English: "Save Me"), presented by Jorge Javier Vázquez, from Telecinco. However, she left the program in March 2011, due to the many disagreements with her teammates on set, the most controversial being her disputes with her co-worker Mila Ximénez. During her professional phase in the program, Karmele contributed, as well as with her journalistic experience, with comic moments such as her admission to the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest (see section). A few months later she returns to Sálvame and tried to fix the disagreements with her teammates, but in 2016 she definitively left the program.

She worked as a celebrity interviewer in the program La Noria (2008-2012) until it was cancelled due to lack of advertisers.

On July 16, 2013, Karmele began participating in the new competition on Telecinco called Campamento de Verano. The reality show was presented by Joaquín Prat from the central studios of Mediaset España/Telecinco and co-hosted by Sonia Ferrer from the Sierra de Gredos.

Television Career

• 1981-1984: Informe semanal (TVE).
• 1984-1987: La tarde (TVE).
• 1993-1996: Pasa la vida (TVE).
• 1993, 1994: La máquina de la verdad (Telecinco).
• 1994: Dret a parlar (TVE).
• 1996-2002, 2004: Día a día (Telecinco).
• 1996, 1997: L’ou o la gallina (TVE).
• 1997-2004: Tómbola (Channel 9 and regional television).
• 1997, 1998: Moros y cristianos (Telecinco).
• 1997-2004: Crónicas marcianas (Telecinco).
• 2000: Bravo por la tarde (Canal Sur)
• 2003: Como la vida (Antena 3).
• 2002: Abierto al anochecer (Antena 3).
• 2004-2007: A tu lado (Telecinco).
• 2004-2007: TNT (Telecinco).
• 2007: ¿Dónde estás corazón? (Antena 3), as guest.
• 2008-2012: La Noria (Telecinco), as interviewer and talk-show guest.
• 2008: Supervivientes (Telecinco), as contestant (7th place).
• 2009-2014: Sálvame Deluxe (Telecinco).
• 2009-2016: Sálvame (Telecinco).
• 2013: Campamento de verano (Telecinco), as contestant (7th place).
• 2015: Trencadís (8tv), as guest.
• 2018: Espejo público (Antena 3), as guest.
• 2019: Espejo público (Antena 3), as guest.

Radio

In 1988, after Jesús Mariñas' dismissal, Karmele replaced him in the program Protagonistas by Luis del Olmo on COPE. In the summer of 2015, her signing was made public, as team member of the program La vida on Catalunya Ràdio.

Eurovision 2010

In 2009, Sálvame announced that Karmele would participate in the preselection for the Eurovision Song Contest 2010, hosted by Televisión Española, with the stage name Pop Star Queen. The journalist submitted three songs to the contest "La Carmelita" and "Las mujeres al poder" and "Soy un Tsunami"); the latter, in English "I am a Tsunami" was selected.

Karmele released her music video on Christmas Eve with some small changes. On January 18, 2010, her single was officially admitted by RTVE as one of the 313 best songs. Her submission was rejected by some of the performers that participated in the selection process and Eurovision fans critizised it severely. However, "Soy un Tsunami" debuted at number one on Internet polls, gaining over 100,000 votes and therefore surpassing the second classified, Coral Segovia, by 30,000 votes. Nonetheless, three days after voting started, her proposal was dismissed, since it came to light that some parts of "I am a Tsunami" didn't comply with the EBU's regulation for the Eurovision Song Contest. A website created for the event made public that some parts of the song were taken from popular songs during Franco's dictatorship. In fact, Karmele herself had sung these verses in other shows before October 1, 2009, (the date set to make the festival songs public) and therefore the track couldn't be considered new. Besides, a part of the song was taken from Sálvame, broadcasted during summer 2009.

Furthermore, the song included the name of a company, Carrefour, which is also against the rules, even though the singer argued that the word meant 'crossing' in French. The music video was eventually broadcasted on Telecinco before it was sent to TVE, although the last had an exclusivity right.

Discography

Singles

• "Soy un Tsunami" ("I am a tsunami")
• "Karmele, la reina de la pista"

Other songs

• "La Karmelita, niña bonita"
• "Las mujeres al poder"

Literary work

Her literary work consists of many articles and two books. The first, Arquetipos y arquetipas: la fauna rosa, talks about different Spanish celebrities and was published in 2003 by Editorial Planeta.

Her second book, Los juguetes de Karmale Marchante, is of a more erotic nature. It was published in 2011 by La Esfera and according to the author "this book is made for everyone to think, like me, that sex is good, fun, shame-free and so necessary that it should be subsidized by Social Security, along with its toys and charms". She mentions different sex toys like Ben Wa balls or herbal aphrodisiacs, and sex positions like the “helicopter” or the “naughty rabbit”.

She also supports the transgender and gay community in general, so two transgender women were featured in the music video for "Soy un Tsunami". Because of this, she was chosen to give a speech at the Pride Parade in Madrid, in 2010.
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Karmele Marchante
Born	María del Carmen Marchante Barrobés September 15, 1946 (age 73) Tortosa (Spain)
Education	University of Navarra
Occupation	TV personality
Notable work	Sálvame Campamento de verano La Noria Eurovision Song Contest Survivor Spain TNT A tu lado Día a día Como la vida Tómbola Pasa la vida La Tarde
Spouse	Diego Soto (2010-2013)

Karmele Marchante (corrections)

María del Carmen Marchante Barrobés (born September 15, 1946 in Tortosa, Tarragona, Catalonia), better known as Karmele Marchante, is a Spanish journalist specialized in tabloid journalism.

Early career

Karmele Marchante was born in Tortosa, Tarragona (Catalonia), daughter of the colonel of infantry Carlos Marchante Alonso (1910-2000) and Carmen Barrobés Llatge (deceased on the April 10, 2005). Her mother came from a wealthy family from Barcelona and had been part of Auxilio Social (The names of institutions are not written in italics) (A humanitarian organization of the fascist party FET during Francisco Franco's dictatorship). She had two siblings, Carlos and María del Rosario.

She studied at the University of Navarra and at the Official Journalism School of Barcelona. In 1981, along with María Rodríguez Bayraguet, she translated Ayatollah Khomeini's book Political, philosophical, social and religious principles. She started working as a journalist in print media both in Barcelona and Madrid, in UNESCO and as a correspondent in many countries. She soon jumped to the small screen, where she became a well-known personality in Spain. Her first experiences in television were in news programs, like TVE's Informe Semanal. She was also the director of Star magazine (a Spanish comic magazine) during its last years, which featured Michael Jackson in 1984. This magazine was one of the pioneers of counterculture in Spain.

Television

During the 1980s (Including the 19 levels the style) she worked for TVE, where she started doing social commentary for the TV program La tarde. Besides collaborating in written press with magazines like Interviú or Época, she hosted a (Style) gossip TV program in Antena 3 in 1990. In 1993, she started to appear in TVE programs like Pasa la vida, with María Teresa Campos, ¡Hola Raffaella! or La máquina de la verdad with Julián Lago. In 1996 she follows María Teresa Campos in her new stage as a main host of(The first translation did not mantain the same meaning as the original) the TV show Día a día in Telecinco. During this time, (A comma was missing) she balanced her appearances on television with writing her column for the magazine Tiempo.

Tómbola

Specialized in what is known as tabloid journalism, her popularity rose (The past tense of rise is rose, not rised) thanks to Tómbola, a TV show broadcasted by Canal 9 and Telemadrid between 1997 and 2004. It was an innovative format in Spain, in which a few journalists —including Karmele Marchante herself— (In cases like this one, use an em dash) would interrogate the guest celebrities about their personal life, often in an aggressive and judgemental way.

This show, along with this kind of journalism, was widely denounced by critics and even political parties, due to the show's public funding. However, it had the support of its loyal audience, which kept it seven years on air.

In the specific case of Karmele (the original refers to her by her last name - Marchante), her verbal confrontations with Jesús Mariñas, one of her colleagues on set, became famous, just as much as his then famous phrase “shut up, Karmele!” (Spanish: "¡que te calles Karmele!") (the sentence is too wordy in English, it would be clearer to put it in a more direct way: "Specifically, Marchante became widely known for her verbal confrontations with Jesús Mariñas, one of her collegues on set and the author of the famous catchphrase “shut up, Karmele!” (Spanish: "¡que te calles Karmele!")". In 2002, the journalist was protagonist of a well-known scandal caused by her accusations of fraud against the actress and presenter Carmen Sevilla, related to her participation in a Disabled Care Foundation. It ended with a judicial ruling of Provincial Court of Madrid in which the journalist was sentenced for illegitimate interference with the right to honour. In March 2009, the Supreme Court confirmed the judgement of the Provincial Court of Madrid stating that the journalist had not been able to prove the extreme accusations expressed in her article. Karmele (the original refers to her by her last name - Marchante) was sentenced to pay €6000 in compensation to Carmen Sevilla and Sevilla was forced to allocate that money for charitable purposes, as she announced in her lawsuit (the sentence is too wordy and redundant due to repetitive words of "Sevilla"; it would be better to express the idea in a more direct way: Marchante was sentenced to pay €6000 in compensation to Carmen Sevilla, who, in return, must have given that money to charity).

Other collaborations, Telecinco and Sálvame

After the cancellation of Tómbola, Karmele continued her career in nationwide channels, collaborating in celebrity gossip programs such as Como la vida (2003-2004) on Antena 3, or on Telecinco: Día a día (2004) by María Teresa Campos, TNT (2004-2007) by Jordi González or A tu Lado (2004-2007) by Emma García. Temporada Alta, a program of the Balearic regional channel IB3, also stands out.

In 2008, she participated in the survival show Supervivientes (in English: Survivors) (the translation is unnecessary since the article of Survivors exists in English Wikipedia too; just put the hyperlink without any parenthetical explanation) also broadcasted on Telecinco. The journalist was sometimes reprimanded by other contestants because of her physical condition and peculiar personality, especially during group challenges. Karmele (again, refer to her by her last name like in the original) was the 6th eliminated person from the competition, while Miriam Sánchez would later be the winner.

In 2009, she began collaborating as a fellow guest in the program Sálvame (in English: "Save Me") presented by Jorge Javier Vázquez on Telecinco. However, she left the program in March 2011 due to the many disagreements with her teammates on set, the most controversial being her disputes with her co-worker Mila Ximénez. During her professional phase in the program, Karmele contributed, as well as with her journalistic experience, with comic moments such as her admission to the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest (see section) (the sentence is too wordy, it would be clearer to use a direct sentence structure: "Apart from being a professional journalist, Karmele surprised everyone with some comical moments, such as her registration at Eurovision..."). A few months later she returned to Sálvame and tried to fix the disagreements with her teammates, but in 2016 she left the program once and for all.

She worked as a celebrity interviewer in the program La Noria (2008-2012) until it was cancelled due to lack of advertisers.

On July 16, 2013, Karmele began participating in a new contest on Telecinco called Campamento de Verano. The reality show was presented by Joaquín Prat from the central studios of Mediaset España/Telecinco and co-hosted by Sonia Ferrer from the Sierra de Gredos.

Television Career

• 1981-1984: Informe semanal (TVE).
• 1984-1987: La tarde (TVE).
• 1993-1996: Pasa la vida (TVE).
• 1993, 1994: La máquina de la verdad (Telecinco).
• 1994: Dret a parlar (TVE).
• 1996-2002, 2004: Día a día (Telecinco).
• 1996, 1997: L’ou o la gallina (TVE).
• 1997-2004: Tómbola (Channel 9 and regional television).
• 1997, 1998: Moros y cristianos (Telecinco).
• 1997-2004: Crónicas marcianas (Telecinco).
• 2000: Bravo por la tarde (Canal Sur)
• 2003: Como la vida (Antena 3).
• 2002: Abierto al anochecer (Antena 3).
• 2004-2007: A tu lado (Telecinco).
• 2004-2007: TNT (Telecinco).
• 2007: ¿Dónde estás corazón? (Antena 3), as a guest.
• 2008-2012: La Noria (Telecinco), as an interviewer, a co-host and a guest.
• 2008: Supervivientes (Telecinco), as acontestant (7th place).
• 2009-2014: Sálvame Deluxe (Telecinco).
• 2009-2016: Sálvame (Telecinco).
• 2013: Campamento de verano (Telecinco), as acontestant (7th place).
• 2015: Trencadís (8tv), as a guest.
• 2018: Espejo público (Antena 3), as a guest.
• 2019: Espejo público (Antena 3), as a guest.

Radio

In 1988, after Jesús Mariñas' dismissal, Karmele replaced him in the program Protagonistas by Luis del Olmo on COPE. In the summer of 2015, her signing was made public, as team member of the program La vida on Catalunya Ràdio.

Eurovision 2010

In 2009, Sálvame (a Spanish TVshow) announced that Karmele would participate in the preselection for the Eurovision Song Contest 2010, hosted by Televisión Española, with the stage name Pop Star Queen. The journalist submitted three songs to the contest "'"Soy un Tsunami"'La Carmelita" and "Las mujeres al poder"); "Soy un Tsunami" was selected.

Karmele released her music video on Christmas Eve with some small changes. On January 18, 2010, her single was officially admitted by RTVE as one of the 313 best songs. Her submission was rejected by some of the performers that participated in the selection process and Eurovision fans critizised it severely. However, "Soy un Tsunami" debuted at number one on Internet polls, gaining over 100,000 votes and therefore surpassing the second classified, Coral Segovia, by 30,000 votes. Nonetheless, three days after voting started, her proposal was dismissed, since it came to light that some parts of "I am a Tsunami" didn't comply with the EBU's regulation for the Eurovision Song Contest. A website created for the event made public that some parts of the song were taken from popular songs during Franco's dictatorship. In fact, Karmele herself had sung these verses in other tvshows before October 1, 2009, (the date set to make the festival songs public) and therefore the track couldn't be considered new. Besides, a part of the song was taken from Sálvame, broadcasted during summer 2009.

Furthermore, the song included the name of a company, Carrefour, which is also against the rules, even though the singer argued that the word meant 'crossing' in French. The music video was eventually broadcasted on Telecinco before it was sent to TVE, although the last had an exclusivity right.

Discography

Singles

• "Soy un Tsunami" ("I am a tsunami")unnnecessary translation
• "Karmele, la reina de la pista"

Other songs

• "La Karmelita, niña bonita"
• "Las mujeres al poder"

Literary work

Her literary work consists of many articles and two books. The first, Arquetipos y arquetipas: la fauna rosa, talks about different Spanish celebrities and was published in 2003 by Editorial Planeta.

Her second book, Los juguetes de Karmale Marchante, is of a more erotic nature. It was published in 2011 by La Esfera and according to the author "this book is made for everyone to think, like me, that sex is good, fun, shame-free and so necessary that it should be subsidized by Social Security, along with its toys and charms". She mentions different sex toys like Ben Wa balls or herbal aphrodisiacs, and sex positions like the “helicopter” or the “naughty rabbit”.

She also supports the transgender and gay community in general, so two transgender women were featured in the music video for "Soy un Tsunami". Because of this, she was chosen to give a speech at the Pride Parade in Madrid, in 2010.