Job gave expensive gifts to those he loved and money to those who needed help.

Many people saw Jô Soares as a snob. He called himself “exposed”. He liked to flaunt his vast culture, his command of languages, his impeccably tailored suits and his ability to have an opinion on everything.

Behind the media personality that not everyone liked was a man of unique generosity. He distributed financial aid and gifts without self-promotion. The attitude of someone truly benevolent.

An example of this are the envelopes with money given to Ricardo Martins, a photographer who has worked with the presenter for over 30 years. Financial aid was essential to pay for cancer treatment when the practitioner needed to leave his duties.

“It didn’t strike me that he left some of what he had with his employees. For someone who worked and was used to living with Jô Soares, that was to be expected,” Martins told Record TV’s ‘Domingo Espetacular’.

The former employee referred to the inclusion of three trusted employees – two maids and a chauffeur – in the sharing of the inheritance. The presenter is known to have helped financially other people who worked in his apartment, including two housekeepers who died.

Jô once gave his program director, Willem van Weerelt, a Rolex Submariner watch. The coveted model from the Swiss brand costs around 8,000 euros, about R$ 45,000. Soon after, Willem was robbed. Seeing his friend’s sadness, the presenter bought him another watch of the same type.

Another moment of generosity occurred on the birthday of Flávia Pedras, with whom Jô has been married for 15 years. He surprised her with a huge package. She was a brand new Escort. The presenter even broadcast “Happy Birthday to You” on the radio and served champagne to his beloved.

Hardly anyone would give someone else an exclusive item they have at home. Joe did. During a visit to her apartment, journalist Mara Luquet was mesmerized in front of a screen.

After noticing it, the presenter revealed that he painted the picture himself: a drawing with 20 light bulbs, one of which faces in the opposite direction from the others. Days later, Mara received a package at home. It was the work of art she was so fond of.

Journalist Keila Jimenez experienced a similar situation. In ‘Hoje em Dia’, by Record TV, she said she was caught by Jô while leafing through a book in her library, with 5,000 books, before starting an interview.

At the end of the meeting, the artist asked her: “Aren’t you taking the book?” The journalist won the Spanish version of the story “The incredible and sad story of Cândida Erêndira and her soulless grandmother”, by the Colombian writer and Nobel Prize winner Gabriel García Márquez.

On TV, when he discovered that a member of his production was spending hours on public transport, Jô gave him a car so that he could get to work less tired. How many bosses do it for the welfare of an employee?

Some celebrities have also experienced the courtesy of José Eugênio Soares, who was born into a wealthy family and, as a teenager, saw his father lose everything and the family move into a privileged room.

Singer Luciano Camargo won a beautiful watch. “To mark the happy hours of your life,” said Jô. When she was interviewed on her talk show, Mônica Iozzi told him that she was going to invite him to be best man at the wedding to win a nice gift.

The presenter asked what he wanted. “A smart TV,” replied the actress, who at the time didn’t even have a boyfriend. Shortly thereafter, she received the desired device at home.

In a rare interview, in 2011, Flávia Pedras commented on the pleasure Jô Soares took in giving gifts to the people he loved and in helping those in need. “Generosity is perhaps the most succinct description when it comes to Jô,” she said. “Pampering people is part of his personality.”

Only revealed after his death, Jô Soares’ selflessness adds to the many other qualities of the famous emcee and the warmhearted man behind his fame.

Source: Terra