Overview
- El Reventonazo de la Chola, which airs a special on Saturday, will honor Rojas with his children Manuel and Ruby and a lineup of close colleagues.
- Panamericana Televisión prepared its own homage titled “Historias de una estrella, Manolo Rojas,” hosted by Thais Casalino with guests Patricia Alquinta and Walter Ramírez and previously unseen footage.
- Producers are drawing on a 2024 podcast where Rojas admitted heavy drinking, apologized to the mother of his children, and said joining the radio show Los Chistosos helped him quit about five years earlier.
- On-air tributes have been deeply personal, with host Ernesto Pimentel saying he misses Rojas’s laughter and generosity and Rojas’s son breaking down while singing in his father’s honor.
- Rojas died on March 27 at 63 from an apparent cardiac arrest, following which a public wake at the Gran Teatro Nacional preceded a hometown homage in Huaral and burial at Campo Fe de Huachipa.