Fernando Carrillo, the Venezuelan heartthrob of hit telenovelas like “Abigail,” “Maria Isabel” and “Rosalinda,” is set to end a 12-year absence and return to the kind of TV dramas that won him international fame.

“During these 12 years I’ve done many things, I’ve done movies, theater, I started my career as a businessman, my boy Angel Gabriel was born and I faced the toughest moments of my life when my parents died,” Carrillo told Efe.

His business activities as vice president for global expansion of the Sunset World group, owner and operator of six hotels in Mexico, have occupied much his time.