Karla Alvarez Dead at 41

Mexican actress and telenovela star Karla Álvarez has died at age 41.

Alvarez, considered one of the biggest villains on Mexican TV, was found by a maid in her apartment in Mexico City on Friday, November 15, and officials have attributed her cause of death to cardiopulmonary arrest due to complications from eating disorders anorexia and bulimia.

Alvarez appeared in shows like MI QUERIDA ISABEL, AGUJETAS DE COLOR DE ROSA, PRISIONERA DE AMOR, LA INTRUSA and VIVAN LOS NINOS. Her last role was playing 'Irasema' in the telenovela QUE BONITO AMOR.

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Alicia Machado stars in LA MADAME.
Photo Credit: Felipe Cuevas/Univision.com

LA MADAME (Mondays-Thursdays at 10 p.m. ET on UniMás) is surprisingly cheeky and funny given its potentially exploitative subject: the lives of high-end escorts. Danger and violence often crop up, but the tone remains largely fanciful. The episodes are a hybrid of serial and stand-alone storytelling. Each episode begins and ends with scenes lasting a total of about ten minutes from the overarching, serialized frame story: the Madame (Alicia Machado) running Colombia’s most exclusive and expensive escort service is kept prisoner in the house of a gangster (Roberto Mateos) who orders her to tell him about each of the girls who works for her. In between the opening and concluding scenes of the frame story is a long central flashback detailing the exploits of one of the Madame’s girls. There is a new girl featured every night with a new guest cast suggesting an anthology series, except the guest lady of the night invariably gets into some predicament that requires the Madame to come to her assistance, accompanied by her bumbling assistant Pacho (Julio Sánchez Cóccaro).

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Stars from the hit novela QUÉ BONITO AMOR were in New York on Cinco de Mayo and performed at a festival in Flushing Park in Queens. Earlier in the day we had the chance to interview stars Danna García, Angélica María, Arturo Peniche and Rafael Negrete for the latest episode of our web series, WE LOVE SOAPS TV. Check it out below as well some photos from the cast's performance Sunday afternoon:

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