soccer player Roberto Martínez- captain of "U" (universitario de deportes) soccer team (divorced), Architect Javier Carmona (divorced)
Children
Ethel Poso Valcárcel
Sonia Mercedes Gisela Valcárcel Álvarez (born 26 January 1963) is a Peruvian television hostess, actress,[1] and businesswoman. She owns and manages the Amarige Beauty Salons & Spas in Lima. She is the director of women's magazines Gisela and Amarige. She also runs her own television production company called GV Productions (El Show de los sueños (Peru), América Hoy, El Gran Show).
Early life
Valcárcel was born on 26 January 1963. She is the daughter of Jorge Valcárcel and Teresa Álvarez. She studied at Institución Educativa Teresa González de Fanning.
Valcárcel was a minor when she became pregnant with her boyfriend Jorge Pozo. Once her daughter Ethel was born, Valcárcel started working as a secretary at a car company and was hired as an extra for theater performances.
Career
A she was working as a part-time receptionist on Panamerican televisión, channel 5, she publicly kissed the Venezuelan singer Oscar de León live on Peruvian television, she instantly launched her career. She started as a comic actress and a dancer ("vedette") in the programs Risas y Salsa and La gran Revista.
Gisela Valcárcel simultaneously hosted Saturday nighttime television shows in the late nineties and early 2000, including a local version of Big Brother named La Casa de Gisela.
Her company Espíritu y GV Producciones produced the mini series Llauca which premiered in 2021.[2]
Controversy
She was involved in a political scandal when a video of her with José Francisco Carreño Crousillat and Vladimiro Montesinos was released. The footage shows that Montesinos informed Alvareaz of measures to be taken to prevent the distribution of a book (La Señito by Carlos Vidal) that reveals intimate aspects of her life. This was denounced as an offense against public administration. A lawsuit was not filed since the judge dismissed the complaint and acquitted the parties involved of all charges.
Personal life
On 10 June 1995, she married the soccer player Roberto Martínez Vera-Tudela. After some years, the couple divorced.
During the political scandal, Valcarcel also began a personal spiritual search that took her to India, where she met some religious leaders, including Sathya Sai Baba, and in the U.S. Deepak Chopra.
In 2006, after six years of romance, she married the Peruvian architect Javier Carmona. The couple separated shortly after the marriage.
She had a relationship with Jorge Pozo, with whom she had a daughter, Ethel Pozo.[3]
Publications
In 2005 her autobiography, My Name is Gisela, was published by Santillana Group. In it, she gives an account of her life from childhood, including her beginnings as a star and her coming to television as hostess of the program Aló Gisela.
If I talk about my sorrows and joys that is because what friends do: tell everything
— Gisela Valcarcel, at presentation of the book (translated from Spanish)