El Gran Wyoming retires from El Intermedio in January 2027, with Gonzo taking over

Wyoming steps down after 20 years

José Miguel Monzón, known as El Gran Wyoming, has decided to retire at the age of 71 and will leave El Intermedio, the satirical programme on laSexta that he has presented since 2006. El País reported the news first on the afternoon of 5 November, and other outlets followed with their own confirmations. The departure ends almost two decades of uninterrupted broadcasts of the channel's longest-running flagship show. La Vanguardia places his exit in January 2027, while La Razón says he will say goodbye to the programme that month. Before his television fame, he studied medicine, worked in music with the group Paracelso, and in 1996 fronted Caiga quien caiga on Telecinco.

Gonzo to take the chair

Fernando González, known as Gonzo, has been chosen as his successor. He currently hosts Salvados, the investigative programme he took over in 2019 after Jordi Évole left. Gonzo previously worked on El Intermedio as a street reporter covering political news from 2010 to 2019, which sources say gives him a firm grasp of the format. Born in Vigo, he studied journalism at the Pontifical University of Salamanca and began his career at Radio Nacional de España. He later presented El método Gonzo on Antena 3 before consolidating his profile on laSexta.

A gradual handover

The change will not be sudden. According to El País, the two presenters will share the programme from January for an indefinite period until Gonzo takes sole charge, and his move will mean leaving Salvados. EL MUNDO, citing sources at Atresmedia, reported that the pair would co-host to ease the transition and that Wyoming was expected to announce his departure on air that evening.

Two decades on air

Wyoming marked the programme's 20th anniversary on 16 April with a special broadcast from the Florida Retiro in Madrid, featuring music, guests, politicians and colleagues. Iñaki Gabilondo asked him what the two decades had meant to him, and he answered with a joke about paid holidays. He went on to say he had never worked less anywhere, and he laughed as he claimed the credit for the show.

“I am purely the presenter, and I take all the credit for the programme and 80% of the budget.”

Earlier signals of the decision

A year earlier, in an interview with El País, Wyoming said he wanted to retire before health problems could force him out, and that he planned to spend his time reading and playing the guitar. In a Salvados interview from September 2025 with Gonzo, he recalled that he had decided to leave before the pandemic and changed course after taking up sport.