Daniel Bisogno, the TV Azteca star known as one of the co-hosts of the long-running entertainment news program Ventaneando, is dead. He was 51.
The news was announced in a statement published on the show’s official social media accounts on Thursday, Feb. 20.
“It is with deepest sadness that we regret to report news we never wanted to give: our beloved Daniel Bisogno has just passed away due to complications he suffered after the liver transplant he underwent last September,” the statement, written in Spanish, read.
“Ventaneando is in mourning. Gone is one of our most outstanding members. Rest in peace. We will honor his memory always,” the statement continued.
Pati Chapoy, who created Ventaneando and serves as a co-host, also confirmed Bisogno’s death on X, writing, “It is with immense sadness that I inform you that Daniel Bisogno has passed away.”
“We deeply regret the passing of our dear friend and colleague, Daniel Bisogno, he will always be remembered with great affection by the entire @Azteca family. We send our deepest condolences to all his family and friends,” Benjamín Salinas, VP at Grupo Salinas, who owns TV Azteca, wrote on X.
Bisogno had been a co-host of Ventaneando since 1997, coming on a year after it first went on air in 1996. He also starred onstage in the musical Lagunilla, Mi Barrio and appeared in the 1980s films El Mas Valiente del Mundo, Fieras Contra Fieras and Y Nunca Más.
On Feb. 12 when his brother, Alejandro (Alex) Bisogno, appeared on Ventaneando and described Bisogno’s health as “very delicate.”
Alejandro said that while everything had gone “in order” with his brother’s transplant, he had developed complications that had caused him to be in and out of the hospital.
“A bacterium settled in the bile ducts, and this was the true problem because it is a bacteria that has been mutating and we have not been able to eradicate. Each time antibiotics are administered, it becomes stronger and we have spent months trying to fight it,” Alejandro said.
Back in January, Bisogno called into the show during its 29th anniversary, saying it had been a “marvelous” couple of years on the show.
“It is a life that has given me everything, both good and bad, and everything has been a great experience for the most part. Absolute happiness,” he said.
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In addition to his brother, Bisogno is survived by his 8-year-old daughter, Michaela, whom he shares with ex-wife Cristina Riva Palacio.
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