Tuesday June 28, 2022, in “TPMP”, Benjamin Castaldi received Fabien Delettres, author and close collaborator of Cyril Hanouna whom he met when the latter was in his debut on the radio. Paths crossed as the Breton tried to break into the business. “It was 16 years ago, in 2005. Cyril was not so famous at the time. I went to wait for him in front of the studios. I called out to him in the street as he was leaving. I explained my situation to him, that I came from Guingamp and that I didn’t know anyone here. I told him that I was passionate, that I really wanted to do this. I asked him if I could learn the trade with him. He was touched and surprised by my approach and replied “OK, we start on Monday.“, he says in the columns of L’écho de l’Armor and Argoat.
On C8, Fabien Delettres also explains that Cyril Hanouna has been the same since he has known him. “He hasn’t changed, he’s still just as funny, as crazy“, he specifies before revealing an unusual anecdote concerning their beginnings. “It’s true that he was already a scrambler“, he explains before recounting that the host had made him believe that he did not know how to play squash in order to steal money from him. “At first he played like a banana“, says Fabien Delettres who then explains that the host offers him a stake and the sum of 50 euros in order to spice up their meeting.And there we take out the ticket and it crushed me, it humiliated me. Just to take 50 bullets from me! What he did he had planned since morning.“, deplores this native of Guingamp.
Not resentful, Fabien Delettres then followed Cyril Hanouna for many years. “In particular, I hosted the morning show with him on Virgin Radio. But I found that I was better at writing, behind the scenes, than in the light.“, says the Breton who also worked with Jean-Marie Bigard.
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