Adela Montes (6 September 1928 – 4 April 2024) was an Argentine entertainment journalist, whose career spanned from 1949 until her final days.
[1] Montes is also recognized for inspiring the word cholula [es], a popular Rioplatense Spanish slang term for a celebrity-obsessed person.
At that point, she had already developed an interest in film and theater, and she would frequently stand by the stagedoors to ask stars for their autographs.
[4] Montes' influence in the entertainment world, as well as her constant search for celebrities to ask for an autograph, inspired a caricaturist, Toño Gallo, to create a comic strip based on her in the late 1950s: "Cholula, loca por los astros" ("Cholula, Crazy for the Stars").
[1][2][3] Despite her age and various health problems, she continued to write columns in gossip magazines such as Pronto [es] until her final days.