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Daniel Illescas, Winner of 'the Challenge': "I Preferred that They Burn or Drown Before Doing a Choreography"

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Daniel Illescas (Barcelona, 1993) is a model and creator of content focused on fashion, travel, sports and lifestyle and now, winner of El Desafío, the successful Antena 3 contest where he has passed vertigo tests such as climbing a ladder of burning chairs, an apnea of 4.47 minutes, or being buried alive. Illescas began his professional career in modelling at age 14 and soon afterwards found on social networks the opportunity to live as he want…

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He has gone through all kinds of challenges, but perhaps the great milestone of Daniel Illescas, winner of the latest edition of 'The Challenge', has been to remain faithful to himself. Despite the obstacles, the exhibition, the fame. Always humble, prudent. "Each one is free to say what he wants, but I never think beyond what I do and I never get into what I don't understand", he explains to ABC after imposing on Friday at the end of the Antena…

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Daniel Illescas (Barcelona, 1993) is a model and creator of content focused on fashion, travel, sports and lifestyle and now, winner of El Desafío, the successful Antena 3 contest where he has passed vertigo tests such as climbing a ladder of burning chairs, an apnea of 4.47 minutes, or being buried alive. Illescas began his professional career in modelling at age 14 and soon afterwards found on social networks the opportunity to live as he want…

·Madrid, Spain
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Still echoing the applause resounding in his mind, Daniel Illescas confesses that his first thought in hearing his name as the winner of El Desafío was of sheer satisfaction. “It was to be proud of all the work he had done during all those months and that that effort had had its reward,” he acknowledges for this medium. It is not for less; his step through the sixth edition of the program has shown a steady progression that culminated in an epic…

·Granada, Spain
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Favoritism must also be demonstrated, because one does not win only with expectations. Daniel Illescas (Santa Perpètua de Mogoda, 1993) knows it well. The influencer arrived as leader of the classification and main candidate for the great final of The Challenge, of which he has ended up proclaiming winner.With an unusual humility and serenity, taking into account the feat, he attends THE REASON.This was not his first experience on television.In …

·Spain
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For Dani Illescas to win The Challenge has not been a victory and nothing more. For Dani Illescas The Challenge has meant a lot more. It has been like reaching the top after climbing...

·Madrid, Spain
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The Catalan influencer is crowned in the most challenging and historic final of the program, starring in a moving and supportive gesture with María José Campanario

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El Mundo broke the news in Madrid, Spain on Saturday, March 28, 2026.
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