Cristina Saralegui told David Viñuales, Listín Diario newspaper correspondent in New York City, that she has no way of knowing if the people that she says request to appear on her show to tell their stories are lying to her. Recently, Dominican TV investigative reporter Nuria Piera exposed on Dominican television the story of several Dominicans who confessed to having played the roles of others as per scripts that were given to them by the producers of the El Show de Cristina, the Spanish-language talk show with the highest rating in the United States. On the Dominican television program the talk show guests said they were enticed with expenses paid weekends in Miami and payments for their services. Nuria’s calls to El Show de Cristina producer Yoly Arocha for a comment on the findings were not responded to, despite the fact that she explained why she was calling. In Santo Domingo, Telemicro, Channel 5 accepted to change the time slot of the program given its content is not appropriate for viewing by children.
