This is how Ricardo Peralta and his friend Charlie met, who visited him at La Casa de los Famosos.

Ricardo Peralta It has attracted attention inside. House of Famous As one of the “runners”, he caused a strong controversy when Arath de la Torre was accused of alleged homophobia and lost about 80 thousand followers on Instagram, and his account is no longer available.

Before all these controversies, Ricardo Peralta was known for his MasterChef win and his Pepe & Teo channel, so shortly before the nomination night, he decided to tell Sian Cheung an episode from that stage of his life: how he met his friend Charlie Portocarrero.

The story begins when Ricardo worked in a company, which he himself defined as a “divine job”, he was responsible for marketing, at the same time he started uploading videos on YouTube, he was 21 years old at that time.

It was time that YouTube He was in his early stages and spoke little about the issues he and his partner were dealing with. Theo Addressing them, especially those related to the experiences of gay men and the population LGBTQ+. “In 2011 nobody was talking about anything” Ricardo pointed out.

In its early years, the channel gained notable popularity and became a “niche” space; YouTube had just started paying, and he was earning around 5,000 pesos a month for his content. “For me, doing Pepe y Teo was an escape.” He admitted that heterosexual men dominated his work environment and he had to adapt. “You have to talk like them.” He explained.

At that time, Pepe and Teo also came to promote the clubs and were paid with buckets of beer or other drinks, “In the morning I would dress up like Godin and at night I would party, it was a double life,” he recalls.

When Ricardo had so much work that he could no longer edit videos, he called for volunteers willing to collaborate with him in a tweet and one of the “applicants” was his partner, and that’s how he met Charlie. “We suggested that we meet at Reforma 222,” Ricardo recalls, but the initial date didn’t happen because his current partner’s car tires were stolen – although Ricardo interpreted this as an excuse at the time –; however, they eventually managed to meet and work together.

At that time Carlos was working in Senate of the Republic Although he studied graphic design, this was a time when his now-partner felt he had a “stable life” because his mother had just won a place.““What I want is to do something that entertains me because my life is very grey,” he told Ricardo.

The relationship between Ricardo and Carlos strengthened as they spent more time together recording and editing videos, and they even started living together because Pepe’s roommate had to move out. “Suddenly we didn’t realize it and we were already a couple” He said, so they picked a date to celebrate their wedding anniversary and their trip was to Canada, they even got tattoos. Fleur de lis, the flower of Quebec.