Rosa Rodríguez is news of the day. After more than 300 programs accompanying thousands of people, yesterday he won the largest jackpot in the history of ‘Pasapalabra’, 2,716,000 euros, putting the answer that gave him victory in the mere 4 seconds he had left. Morrall, that was the word that made her a millionaire, corresponding to the surname of a famous American football player.
The famous contestant will not be able to receive the full prize and, applying the corresponding taxes, the estimated calculation is that the Tax Agency would keep 1,261,000 euros. Thus, the prize will actually remain at 1,455,000 euros. A ‘cut’ that Rosa thinks is fine. “I’m not angry about sharing the pot with the Treasury, it seems fair to me. I am a believer that people who have more income should contribute more to be able to live in society as we know it,” she declared in an interview for ‘ABC’.
“Thanks to the tax system that we have in Spain, we have a great system of public services. So it doesn’t make me angry, on the contrary, I consider that I have been able to get here thanks to my efforts, but also to the circumstances that have occurred in my life, and part of those circumstances have been the product of the training that I have had thanks to public school, public scholarships, public health. If I can contribute a little so that the rest continue to enjoy this, I am delighted,” she added in this regard.
Helping your parents, the priority
In previous programs, Rosa Rodríguez confessed that she had not thought carefully about what she would do with the jackpot if she won it, although then she was already clear that helping her parents was a priority. “I always think that the reason I am here today is because my parents sacrificed everything so that we could have the life we had. I would like to be able to help them and, if there was anything left over, live more peacefully, which with today’s economy is complicated. Continue doing what I like and be calm,” she explained recently.
This feeling was confirmed again in the interview with the aforementioned media, where he said that, in addition, he will be able to buy a home: “For me, living in peace means being able to access my own home, which was something that I saw as quite complicated until now, even with my job, and being able to give financial peace of mind to my parents so that they can enjoy everything they have left now that they are of an age to enjoy it after so many years of work.”
The contestant affirms that she wants to continue working and dedicating herself to what she likes without feeling “that economic pressure,” although she will take some trips yet to be defined. As he told this week in ‘El Hormiguero’, he had to take a leave of absence from his job to be able to dedicate himself 100% to the program. “At first I combined both things, work and program, I am a Spanish teacher for foreign students, in the language center of the university, but as I progressed I decided to bet everything on the program and take a leave of absence. I hope to return to the classrooms soon, which I love,” she explained.
The curious thing about this story is that Rosa, even as a child, claimed that one day she would go to ‘Pasapalabra’. When he grew up, he continued to love competitions and appeared in several castings, although his mother always insisted that he should try this one. He repeated it so much that he convinced her, and today she is the winner of the largest jackpot in the history of the program.