Stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame were unveiled Thursday honoring the hosts of the long-running Univision entertainment news program, “El Gordo y la Flaca,” Raúl De Molina and Lili Estefan.
“We made it to Hollywood,” Estefan told the cheering crowd gathered for the event.
She then took a line from the film “Pretty Woman,” saying, “What’s your dream? Everybody’s got a dream.”
De Molina said, “I never in my life (thought) that … I would be getting a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, really.”
Former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, singer Gloria Estefan, actor Paul Rodriguez, De Molina’s daughter Mia De Molina and Lili Estefan’s daughter Lina Luaces were among those in attendance at the ceremony at 7076 Hollywood Blvd. between La Brea and Sycamore avenues.
Lili Estefan is a niece of Gloria Estefan’s husband, music mogul and producer Emilio Estefan.
The stars are the 2,801st and 2,802 since the completion of the Walk of Fame in 1961 with the initial 1,558 stars.
The show’s title translates to “The Fat Man and the Skinny Woman,” referring to De Molina and Estefan. It premiered on Sept. 21, 1998, and De Molina and Estefan have been its hosts throughout its run.
Estefan won a Daytime Emmy as outstanding daytime talent in a Spanish-language program in 2018 and was nominated for outstanding informative talk show host in 2021 and 2022 for her work on the Facebook Live talk show, “Red Table Talk: The Estefans.”
De Molina received Daytime Emmy nominations for outstanding daytime talent in a Spanish-language program in 2016, 2018 and 2019. His other honors include being selected as one of People en Español’s most influential Hispanics in the United States.
“El Gordo y la Flaca,” was nominated for Daytime Emmys for outstanding entertainment program in Spanish in 2017, 2019 and 2020.
De Molina was born March 29, 1959, in Havana. He joined his family in moving to Spain when he was 10 years old and to the United States when he was 16. He was a photographer for The Associated Press, Time, Newsweek, Paris Match, U.S. News & World Report and USA Thursday before beginning his television career with “El Gordo y la Flaca.”
De Molina has hosted Univision’s New Year’s Eve countdown in Times Square for 27 years and covered such events as the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton, the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II, the coronation of King Charles III, and the FIFA World Cups in France, Germany, South Africa and Brazil, the Indianapolis 500 and Holy Week at the Vatican.
De Molina has been a judge for the Miss America pageant and the cooking competition Iron Chef America.
Estefan was born on March 20, 1967, in Santiago de Cuba. After her mother died when she was 10 years old, Estefan moved with her father and younger brother to the United States. She began her television career in 1986 as a model on the long-running Univision variety show “Sábado Gigante.”
Estefan was a judge on “Mira quién baila,” the Hispanic American version of “Dancing with the Stars” from 2010-12.
