This Saturday, July 9, 2022 is expected the grand finale of the competition between the greatest noon Masters of the 12 noon shots. About fifty candidates were gathered there on the occasion of the twelve years of the program. Throughout the events launched at the end of June, viewers were able to hear from Xavier and his baby or from Majid who has changed a lot physically. On the other hand, no trace of the very first champion of the game, Pierre-Marie Roques.
The latter caused a sensation in 2010, the year of the very beginnings of Jean-Luc Reichmann’s program. At the time, after 33 participations, he left with 197,000 euros in winnings and gifts. In their edition of June 27, our colleagues from Entertainment TV remind us that Pierre-Marie is still today “the only candidate to have had the Mysterious Star on the first try“. When he was eliminated, Pierre-Marie Roques however did not go very far since he ended up joining the production of 12 noon shots in quality of question writer. A full-time job that he has been doing for all these last years and which makes him an intermittent performer. “It’s a creative job, so a certain relaxation is necessary. I really like it“, he confided on the subject.
Pierre-Marie Roques therefore naturally did not have the time to challenge the other Maîtres de midi who succeeded him. And, if he had won a nice sum in 2010, he was still largely dethroned by them. Bruno notably broke all records in 2021 by obtaining a prize pool of 1,026,107 euros, which made him the biggest winner of a game show. Before him, Eric left the game with 921,316 euros in his pocket. Paul El Kharrat is also one of the essential players. His performances had enabled him to win the sum of 691,522 euros in 153 participations. In total, TF1 revealed to have paid the dizzying sum of 14 million euros to the various winners in twelve years.