Known best for hosting the Spanish-language versions of the Who Wants to be a Millionaire? and Million Pound Drop game shows, this popular entertainer also pursued a career as a film actor, making his big-screen debut in the 1996 movie Rigor Mortis. After graduating from the University of Deusto, he had a decade-long career as a law professor at the University of the Basque Country. He began his entertainment career as a writer for a Basque television series titled Boulevard.