She worked in the
Interviú magazine's Barcelona editorial office between 1977 and 1984 In 1984, she joined
Televisión Española and moved to Madrid. At the public broadcaster, she made reports for programs such as
Informe Semanal or
La Tarde and also participated in others such as
Segundos fuera (1986) and
Radio Nacional de España. At the end of the 1980s, she returned to the private media, working for a decade for the
Grupo Z weeklies
Panorama Internacional (1987– 1988) and
Tiempo (1988–1997) doing interviews, opinion columns, and social chronicles. She combined written journalism with radio (she replaced
Jesús Mariñas in the
COPE channel's
Protagonistas by Luis del Olmo in 1988) and television collaborations. She hosted several programs on regional channels and hosted a segment of
Antena 3 Noticias called
Las noticias del corazón (1990) on the newly launched
Antena 3. She worked on
Gran Wyoming's
La noche se mueve (1993) in
Telemadrid; Julián Lago's
La máquina de la verdad (1993, 1994) in
Telecinco and
Pasa la vida (1993– 1996),
Tardes con Teresa (1994) and
Día a día (1996– 1997) by
María Teresa Campos, in
La 1 and
Telecinco. Regarding her feminist and research aspects, in 1994 she founded the group
El Club de las 25, which brings together women from different sectors for the active struggle in feminism. At this time, Marchante combined her work as a journalist with a stay in
Washington D. C. thanks to a
Fulbright scholarship, and another later at the University of Debrecen, in
Hungary. In 1997, she arrived at
Tómbola, where she held a chair for 7 years. She focused her career on television, and her popularity grew rapidly, including making advertising spots, participating in reality shows, and giving paid interviews. Tómbola was a novel format in Spain, in which several journalists would focus–sometimes in a reproachful tone and with an aggressive attitude–on aspects of the interviewed person's private life. This type of program, controversial in content and form, was subsequently imitated by all the networks. The verbal confrontations between Marchante and Jesús Mariñas (author of the then famous phrase "
que te calles Karmele!"), one of her colleagues on the set, became famous. After the cancellation of Tómbola, Marchante continued her career on national channels, collaborating as an expert in politics and current affairs in programs such as
Como la vida (2003–2004), on
Antena 3, or on
Telecinco in
Día a día (2004), by
María Teresa Campos,
TNT (2004–2007), by
Jordi González or
A tu lado (2004–2007), by Emma García. It also highlights the program
Temporada Alta Alta of the Balearic regional channel
IB3. In 2008, she participated in the contest
Supervivientes, broadcast by
Telecinco, in which she was sometimes reprimanded by other contestants due to her physical condition and her peculiar personality, especially during the group tests. She was the 6th expelled from the contest that would later be won by
Miriam Sánchez.
Sálvame and La Noria In 2009, she began collaborating in the Telecinco program
Sálvame, hosted by
Jorge Javier Vázquez, where she starred in comedic moments such as her
Eurovision Song Contest 2010 entry as Pop Star Queen. And she presented three songs:
Soy un tsunami,
La Carmelita, and
Las mujeres al poder, of which
Soy un tsunami was chosen, which placed first in the internet voting. Defender also of
transsexual people and the homosexual collective in general, two transsexuals appeared in the video clip of Soy un Tsunami, so she was chosen to give a proclamation at the
Gay Pride of
Madrid in 2010. Despite her success in the vote, her candidacy was rejected three days after the opening of the voting by RTVE, after it was known that some parts of the song did not comply with the regulations of the
European Broadcasting Union. She leaves the program in May 2011 to travel to
England, only to return a few months later at the program's request.In 2016, Marchante left it definitively, saying that she felt "humiliated, vexed, insulted, and mistreated" by the program's team and its direction, among other things, for her positions as a feminist and
Catalan pro–independence. After leaving, she declared that having worked in the heart press had been the biggest mistake of her life. In parallel to her stint in Sálvame as an interviewer of popular characters in
La Noria (2008–2012), until the program was canceled due to lack of advertisers. On 16 July 2013, she began participating in the new Telecinco contest called
Campamento de Verano, a reality show presented by Joaqun Prat from the central studios of
Mediaset España and with her co–host
Sonia Ferrer from the
Sierra de Gredos. In the summer of 2015, her signing was made public as a collaborator for the program
La vida on
Catalunya Ràdio. In 2018, she began working on
Espejo público of
Antena 3, as well as
TV3. In the meantime, she launches her social media career with a current affairs
YouTube channel. == Published works ==