Iker Jiménez

Iker Jiménez Elizari (born 10 January 1973) is a Spanish journalist. He is known for hosting Cuarto milenio,[1] a 15 season long ongoing TV show about "mystery", giving voice to conspiracy theories, pseudoscientific stances and stories about alien spaceships, ghosts and monsters.[2][3]

Iker Jiménez
Iker Jiménez in 2017
Born
Iker Jiménez Elizari

(1973-01-10) 10 January 1973
Vitoria, Spain
Alma mater
  • Universidad Complutense de Madrid
  • Universidad Europea de Madrid
OccupationJournalist, TV presenter, writer, youtuber, radio presenter, paranormal investigator and ufologist
Spouse(s)Carmen Porter
Children1
Websiteikerjimenez.com

Biography

He was born in Vitoria, and has a bachelor's degree in journalism from both the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and the Universidad Europea de Madrid.

He is married to Carmen Porter, also a journalist and team member of both Milenio 3 and Cuarto Milenio.[4] His first daughter, Alma Jiménez Porter, was born in 2011.[5]

Career

He has been the presenter of mystery programs on radio and publisher of many articles about paranormal activity.

He started in 1990 on small radio stations in Madrid until he went to some of the most important Spanish radio stations: Onda Madrid, Radio Voz, Radio Intercontinental, Antena 3, Onda Cero, Cadena SER and Radio Nacional de España. He has also worked in TV programs for Telecinco, Antena 3 or Cuatro TV.

He founded the CD-Rom magazine, CD Magazine and wrote some articles for several publications.

He has been the presenter and director of the radio program Milenio 3 in Cadena SER. Milenio 3 was the leader program in the Saturday late night Spanish radio and also in other schedules in which it was previously broadcast. Milenio 3 came to an end on 28 June 2015, after 14 seasons on air.[6]

He currently presents the television program Cuarto Milenio (Fourth Millennium). Started in 2006, Cuarto Milenio is the most popular program of the Spanish channel Cuatro and the oldest of the programs broadcast by Cuatro. [7]

He also started a self-produced live show in YouTube in 2018, Milenio Live.[8]

Ideology and stances

He proclaims himself to be "anti-establishment", a "Liberal guy" distrustful of the State and "parasitism".[9] According to Antonio Maestre, Jiménez (described by the former as a concealed "antimarxist" who has however avowedly embraced a "deideologized" profile as TV host), has become a guru to the far right in Spain, giving voice in his TV shows to conspiracy theories such as the Great Replacement or the Kalergi Plan.[10]

He was derided as traitor among his followers after claiming COVID-19 was real. He apologized to them, claiming that he was still "not a Jew, nor a Freemason, nor belonged to any secret society" [sic].[11][12]

Works

In 1999 he wrote Enigmas sin resolver.[13] He is also the author of El paraíso maldito (2000), Enigmas sin Resolver II (2000), Camposanto (2005) based on Hieronymus Bosch's life, Fronteras de lo imposible, Encuentro and Milenio 3: El libro (2006).[14] In 2014 Antonio Luis Moyano, who worked with Iker, wrote Iker, el mago del misterio.[15]

Notable television works

References
  1. Berlanga Fernández, Inmaculada (2008). "Programas divulgativos y periodismo de misterio ¿telebasura o rigor informativo?". Comunicar: Revista Científica Iberoamericana de Comunicación y Educación (31): 765–770. ISSN 1134-3478.
  2. Canosa Betés, Jorge (2015). "Pseudoarqueología para todos. Acerca de la exposición de Cuarto Milenio en Madrid" (PDF). ArqueoWeb. Complutense University of Madrid. 16. ISSN 1139-9201.
  3. Noragueda, César (21 July 2018). "13 años de despropósitos de Iker Jiménez y compañía en 'Cuarto Milenio'". Hipertextual.
  4. Fernández, Juanma (12 February 2016). "La rumba del más allá". El Español (in Spanish). Retrieved 23 February 2019.
  5. "Iker Jiménez alucina con su hija: tenemos a una nueva estrella audiovisual". Cuatro.com (in Spanish). Mediaset España. 17 February 2019. Retrieved 23 February 2019.
  6. "Iker Jiménez cierra Milenio 3". El Norte de Castilla (in Spanish). Valladolid: Vocento. 28 June 2015. Retrieved 9 January 2019.
  7. "'Cuatrocientos Milenios': 'Cuarto Milenio' llega este domingo a su programa 400". Cuatro (in Spanish). Mediaset España. 6 March 2015. Retrieved 9 January 2019.
  8. "Iker Jiménez, ahora youtuber". eulixe. Eulixe. 1 October 2018.
  9. Fernández, Eduardo (6 September 2015). "Iker Jiménez: 'Soy un antisistema'". El Mundo.
  10. Maestre, Antonio (25 April 2020). "La extrema derecha y el paradigma Iker Jiménez". eldiario.es.
  11. Arjona, Daniel (13 August 2020). "Iker Jiménez y los ciclistas: cómo el presentador fue devorado por sus criaturas". El Confidencial.
  12. "Iker Jiménez se harta de los que creen en la «Plandemia»: «No soy un traidor, no estoy a favor de Soros, Bildelberg ni la Masonería»". ABC. 13 August 2020.
  13. Monteagudo, Carlos (6 October 2016). "Javier Pérez Campos: "Pasé de leer libros de Iker Jiménez a trabajar con él"". Lanza Digital (in Spanish). Retrieved 23 February 2019.
  14. Corral, Julio; Arroyo, Antonio (7 June 2018). Ochate. Realidad y leyenda del pueblo maldito. Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial España. p. 126. ISBN 9788403519367.
  15. Gay, Nacho (6 November 2009). "Desmontando a Iker Jiménez". El Confidencial (in Spanish). Titania Compañía Editorial, S.L. Retrieved 23 February 2019.
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