This Monday, June 5, 2023, Estelle Denis hosted a new number of her show Estelle Noon. An edition in which the journalist had the opportunity to discuss the place of animators over 70 on the air. Among them: Nelson Monfort, Thierry Ardisson, but also Michel Drucker. As the years pass and the younger generation would like to impose itself in the media universe, should the emblematic figures of television give way to others? For Périco Légasse, the answer is “No”. “I am for the recognition of merit with experience. The place for young people for what?he launched in full live before deciding: “Between Claude Santelli and Hanouna I prefer Claude Santelli”. According to the famous food critic, “Old people are a fundamental value, there is a lack of old people in this country.”
A remark which did not fail to make Estelle Denis react who, on the contrary, finds that he “there are too many”. “On French television, we lack values, we lack principles and Ardisson and Drucker are bearers of this awareness of television. […] I’m not saying it has to be, but they haven’t said everything, there is still ferment at Drucker. […] Television has a very important educational and formative role in the transmission of social values. An opinion that Emmanuelle Dancourt does not share at all.
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“There are many who have not been given a chance”
“When I started at France 3, I was 23 and we were already talking about Michel Drucker, saying to ourselves: ‘And him, when are we going to fire him?’ There is a whole generation of France 3 animators who today, like me, will be 50 years old and who have not been able to settle in this career because it was monopolized by the generation of May 68 “, laments the journalist. For her, Michel Drucker “clings to his red chair” and the only reason he and his same-age counterparts are getting ratings is “because we put them on the air! There are many who have not been given a chance, there is no risk taking.
Return of Ardisson and Drucker: should the public service give way to young people? @EmmaDancourt : “They have an audience because we put them on the air! There are many who have not been given a chance, there is no risk taking.”#EstelleMidipic.twitter.com/PutSDzE7Th
— Estelle Midi (@EstelleMidi) June 5, 2023
For her part, Estelle Denis did not wish to decide. However, Raymond Domenech’s ex is worried about not seeing any “woman over 60” on the television. Internet users, meanwhile, think 73% that the public service should make room for young people. Not cool for Michel Drucker…
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