On several occasions during the year, Jean-Luc Reichmann offers the former “midday masters” of his program “Les 12 Coups de Midi” to return to the program in order to compete between champions. Called “Le Combat des maîtres”, this special edition made its big comeback this Monday, July 3, 2023 for a week of fierce competition. Viewers were able to see Xavier who has changed a lot physically, or even Paul El Kharrat, two former champions who are among the best known. Jean-Luc Reichmann also wanted to surprise Xavier by broadcasting a compilation of his best moments spent in the game, enough to make the main interested party cry live.
This Saturday July 8, 2023 was the grand finale of this special edition and the host this time gave a nod to another champion. “We must not forget Madjid because there have been many beautiful things that we have experienced together” he launched to the candidate by asking him if it was in 2011 that he had participated in the game.
“I’ve been quite ungrateful to you…”
“That’s it. I arrived just after Cyrille […] I am nothing compared to them. They accepted me as I was. I, unlike them, I was quite ungrateful to you, I take this opportunity to apologizebut now, I’ve been super happy for a year to have found you” replied Madjid. Surprised, Jean-Luc Reichmann then asked him for having used the word “ingrate”. “To be honest […] I was told that I was beautiful, that I was great, so I was a little bit in all the shows and the only one that really matters, and I realized it there, it’s this one- this” Majid explained.
Touched, Jean-Luc Reichmann then retorted: “It gives me great pleasure and it’s part of life, it goes away, it comes back, but we are still here, we will try to be there as long as possible. But we, we don’t never closed the doors”. And Majid to continue to make his mea culpa: “Never, no. It was I who turned my back”.
Always so benevolent, the host then concluded by saying: “I think it’s very brave to say what you say. You have to admit it at some point, you went somewhere else, you wanted to do other things and you came back home” before taking the candidate in his arms.
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