My Life is a Telenovela (8x60’)
WE tv will take viewers behind the drama, intrigue, betrayal, and sex that occurs both on and off-screen in Latino Hollywood, when it premieres its newest docu-series, My Life is a Telenovela (8×60′), on Friday, October 7 at 10pm ET/PT.
Set in sun-kissed Miami, the eight episode, one-hour series follows a group of beautiful, talented and hard-working Hispanic actresses and actors working in the hyper-competitive world of Telenovelas, a genre which has continued to entertain audiences all over the world for decades. But when the cameras stop rolling, it’s their real life drama that steals the show.
My Life is a Telenovela is produced for WE tv by Matador and executive produced by Jay Peterson, Todd Lubin, Jerry Carita, and Megan Sánchez-Warner. Nathan Carpenter is co-executive producer. Executive producers for WE tv are Lauren P. Gellert and Suzanne Gladstone Murch.
My Life is a Telenovela features a group of Telenovela stars including, Maria ‘Raquenel’ Portillo, Sissi Fleitas, Gustavo Pedraza, Enrique Sapene, Alina Robert, and Liliana Rodríguez Morillo, whose lives off-screen are just as passionate, intense and melodramatic as their characters on-screen.
The series begins with several female cast members vying for the same role in a telenovela being produced by the Spanish-language television network, Telemundo, resulting in jealousy, betrayal, backstabbing, rivalry and fireworks on both sides of the camera.
The competition is already fierce for the leading ladies, but suddenly a new rival has returned to town, María ‘Raquenel’ Portillo, and with her comes unanswered questions about a scandalous past. Having spent time in prison for a prominent sex scandal, Raquenel wants nothing more than to come to Miami for a second chance in the spotlight.
