The 23rd TVyNovelas Awards were an academy of special awards to the best soap operas and TV shows. The awards ceremony took place on April 23, 2005 in Mexico D.F. The ceremony was televised in Mexico by Canal de las Estrellas.

Rubí is a Mexican telenovela produced by José Alberto Castro for Televisa. It is based on a short story by Yolanda Vargas Dulché, published as a serial on the 1960s Mexican romance comic book Lágrimas, Risas y Amor.