A few days ago, our colleagues from Puremedia announced that Laurent Ruquier was ready to leave the presentation ofWe are live and the Saturday evening time slot on France 2, which he has owned for 16 years. Léa Salamé, her co-host since the fall of 2021, could then continue to defend the talk show alone. Information to which neither Laurent Ruquier, nor France Télévisions, wished to react for the time being. On the other hand, the host’s companion, Hugo Manos, agreed to discuss these rumors, confirming them in half.
“For the moment, nothing has been confirmed because he would like to discuss with the director of France Télévisions, but he also remains open to other proposals.“, he explained in TPMP People Saturday March 12, 2022. And to add: “He gets along very well with Léa Salamé, there is no problem with her. On the other hand, he likes to be alone at the controls. And the producer of Léa Salamé, it’s a little more complicated with him. I know that with Léa’s producer, it’s less easy. In short, all that, it pisses him off a little. He has no problem with the channel, he will continue to do his other two shows, but Saturday night, potentially it can stop“.
The columnist Isabelle Morini-Bosc then came to support her statements. “Indeed, Léa Salamé is constantly during the show, from what I know from France Télévisions, in contact with her very intrusive producer. And Léa Salamé would see herself in the box and one of the directors of France 2 thinks that she would be very good there too so she is a bit inflating for the team“, she revealed. Again, the main interested party did not speak on the subject.
Léa Salamé seems in any case to appreciate more and more the presentation of programs like We are live, to “lighter register” than the morning show of France Inter, which she co-hosts with Nicolas Demorand. “I don’t know if I’ll be back next season. I am at the end of the cycle and I leave myself the possibility of changing things“, she confessed recently during an interview for TV Magazine.