Who is Caramelo?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\nCarlos Antonio Cruz was born in Dajab\u00f3n, northeast of the Dominican Republic, into a humble family.\n\n\nAt just 18 years old, he emigrated to New York with his younger brother, where he performed different types of jobs, including butcher, metal collector, and package deliverer in the aforementioned city, before entering La casa de los famosos All-Stars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He dreamed of playing professional baseball, being part of the Toronto Blue Jays baseball team, but life had other plans for him.<\/p>\n\n\nAmidst the necessity and difficulties that life brought, he strived to learn the English language, learning it over time in a self-taught manner.\n\nHis charisma and authenticity in performing his job as a United Parcel Service (UPS) package delivery man earned him several viral videos on social media, reaching American programs such as “The Jennifer Hudson Show”, by singer Jennifer Hudson, and Latino programs like “En Casa con Telemundo”.\n\n\n
On a personal level, Caramelo has 3 children: 2 biological and 1 stepchild, with whom was in the past his romantic partner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI care a lot about the mother of my children. She is a good woman and I want her to be well because she is the mother of my children,\u201d he said to his housemates in the House of Celebrities. \u201cShe is a fighter,\u201d he highlighted today, the winner of the reality show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Within the competition, a romance began with the former member and reality TV star, Manelyk, with whom he hopes to start an approach outside the house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During his time on \u201cLa Casa de los Famosos, All Star\u201d, the Dominican returned 6 times from nomination, had 2 leaderships and 16 fights, among others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After winning the competition, he becomes the first Dominican and man to win the competition, with women being the winners in the first four seasons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Santo Domingo.- Carlos Antonio Cruz, better known as \u201cCaramelo\u201d, is a Dominican residing in the United States, winner of the fifth season of the reality show \u201cLa Casa de los Famosos All Star\u201d, from the Telemundo network. Since entering the reality show, as part of a new generation of personalities who joined famous former residents […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":470029,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[26534,17591,41052],"class_list":["post-470099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-candy","tag-telemundo","tag-the-house-of-celebrities"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-1Yif","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/06\/Carlos_Caramelo_Cruz_Quien_es_y_como_llego_a_La_Casa_de_los_Famosos_All_Stars.webp","dum_api":{"author_name":"Lady Alvarez","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/cropped-Diseno-sin-titulo-35-1-96x96.jpg","categories_name":["Entertainment"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/06\/Carlos_Caramelo_Cruz_Quien_es_y_como_llego_a_La_Casa_de_los_Famosos_All_Stars.webp"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}