On April 20, 2023, Blanche Gardin declared war on Jeff Bezos and his video-on-demand service. Contacted to participate in the next season of LOL: Who laughs comes out!, the 46-year-old comedian took to his social networks to decline the invitation. It is through a long text published on his Facebook account that the companion of Louis CK has exposed the many reasons that led him to make this decision. “I would be embarrassed (not to say that it would really hurt my ass) to be paid 200,000 euros for a day’s work”, she said in particular. Words that elicited strong reactions.
Guest of Cauet on the airwaves of NRJ this Monday, April 24, 2023, Ahmed Sylla, former participant of the program, pointed to the statements of his counterpart. “Blanche, you’re nice, you pushed the cursors a bit my darling”he launched before discussing his own salary for the show. “I took a good ticket […] it pays very well. It’s Amazon, it’s very well paid”he just said.
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“It brings shame on us”
Far from appreciating the intervention of his colleague, Ahmed Sylla then reacted to the controversy. “I didn’t find that cool on his part in Blanche. It throws a bit of shame on the rest of us”. Until now, the two comedians maintained however “good relations”. “I really like Blanche, we don’t know each other, we’re not friends, but I thought we had a good relationship.”
“In a pinch, if it’s not a model you like or if you’re embarrassed, you don’t say anything. Or, do it, and you give everything to an association. […] I help a lot of associations in a private capacity and this money is also used to do that”confided the comedian of 33 years. “I didn’t understand, we offered her the 200,000 and she said no or…?”, added Cauet. Information denied by Ahmed Sylla. “But that’s not even true! I’m quite close to the production, we didn’t offer him that, there was no financial proposal from Amazon! There was all this rumor that circulated in Paris, some would have taken 300,000, 400,000 €, it is not true. The agents talk to each other and it is not that amount. That is not the price “. That is what is said!
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