star Academy, 50′ inside, The Voice… Nikos Aliagas is a key figure on the small screen. The 52-year-old host has taken charge of many of the programs that have become emblematic of TF1. Successes that allow him to celebrate his 20 year career with a nice portrait broadcast Wednesday, February 9, 2022 on TMC. And it was against his father’s advice that the charming brunette made his way into the media world.
Younger, very proud to be able to brandish his very first press card, Nikos Aliagas hastens to share his joy with his parents. And he hits a wall. “Are you going to sell newspapers on the street?“, asks his father, who died in 2017 in Greece. “My father was not reassured by this job and at no time did he act as a ‘fan’ of what I was doing“, he confides to our colleagues from TVMagazine which he covers.
And yet, the dad of Agathe (9 years old) and Andreas (5 years old), born of his love with his beautiful Tina Grigoriou, did everything to make this strict father proud. Indeed, in his early days, after having cut dispatches to Radio France International to pay for his student room, Nikos Aliagas learned the trade and made a name for himself. The journalist even manages to interview Rafic Hariri or even Nazarbayev Lukashenko. This is the beginning of glory and a great career. His first salaries were then used… for his late father. “With the money, I bought a car for my father, then a workshophe remembers in the columns of the World. I wanted to erase the lack in his gaze, to transform his nostalgia into joy.“
His father Andreas remains discreet about his feelings. But he is nonetheless very proud of his son, to whom he made a beautiful statement in the middle of the Greek broadcast, 35 years ago. While Nikos Aliagas was filming a program on his success, he was surprised to see his father arrive. “Without looking me in the eye, out of modesty, he said to the presenter: ‘I came to tell him that I love him because he thinks that I don’t love him.’ I restrained myself from crying, he confides, very moved, to TV Magazine. He left us but I feel him close to me… I always wanted to prove to my father that he had not emigrated in vain.“Mission successfully completed…