María Teresa Campos Luque (18 June 1941 – 5 September 2023) was a Spanish journalist, radio and television presenter with a long professional career spanning over five decades.

[1] In the last years of Franco's regime, she had to circumvent censorship restrictions and began to express her feminist and progressivist positions.

[1] She and her husband received ideologically motivated threats during those years, including an incident in which her car was burned in front of her home.

[3][7] Studying at the University of Málaga allowed her to learn about the student movements of the last years of the dictatorship, which led her to give it an informative voice on the radio alongside Rafael Rodriguez.

[3] In 1977 Campos participated in the broadcasting by Radio Juventud of the demonstration of 4 December, in which Andalusians, already in the early years of the democratic transition, demanded autonomy for Andalusia.

[3] The role of Radio Juventud during the Spanish transition to democracy, which at its origins was a pro-Franco propaganda station, was considered by journalist Juan Tomás Luengo as a "bastion of the defense of freedoms, mainly of information and plural opinion".

[3] In 1977, Campos ran unsuccessfully in the first free general elections for the Spanish Social Reform party as a candidate for the Congress of Deputies because, as she herself said, "knowing from my profession the problems of rural women, I know that its program offers the most appropriate solutions", making an "urgent appeal to all women, from the housewife who exercises a function of great social contribution to that other one who tries to integrate professionally in a society made by men".

[9] In 1986 the television network gave Campos the opportunity to collaborate in the mornings with Jesús Hermida on the program "Por la mañana".

[8][1][9] Campos returned to television in 1990, replacing Hermida on his program "A mi manera", changing its name shortly thereafter to "Esta es su casa" and later "Pasa la vida".

[10] In 2004, Telecinco hired Campos to present the program "Cada día", but the following year it was cancelled for audience reasons.

[1] In 2014 she met the Chilean-Argentine humorist Bigote Arrocet [es], beginning a relationship that lasted until 2019 after his infidelity was discovered.

[14] Nine days later she was discharged from the hospital after recovering, although she was left with effects such as tinnitus and a later cognitive decline, a state of deterioration that her daughter Terelu acknowledged publicly in June 2023.

[15][16][17] On 3 September 2023, Campos was admitted to the Fundación Jiménez Díaz medical center in Madrid in very serious condition, due to acute respiratory failure.