Came to promote its platform Ardivisionon which he offers all of the shows he produced and/or presented, Thierry Ardisson did not expect such questions… Interviewed by Philippe Vandel on France Info, the most famous man in black of the PAF was quickly annoyed by the questions from the former Europe 1 journalist, who bounced back on the France Télévisions news channel this fall. Asked about the relevance of offering on Ardivision a sequence in which Thierry Meyssan denies the existence of the September 11 attacks, the former Earthling of Canal+ defended itself, by arguing “take responsibility for (one’s) bullshit” : “In forty years of TV, this is the only mistake people talk to me about regularly, so it’s proof that I haven’t made many”.
The only mistake? An assertion which made the France Info journalist bounce back, who reminded him of another of the cult sequences of his career: that of the interview that Tristane Banon gave to Thierry Ardisson on his show Faubourg, Saint-Honoré in 2007, and in which she claimed to have been the victim of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, to the rude laughter of the speakers and the public. Stung to the quick, Thierry Ardisson stepped up to the plate : “No, but wait! You invite me to talk aboutArdivisionand my nomination for the Emmy Awards in New York, and we’re going to spend twelve minutes talking about the three bullshit what have I done in my career? Frankly, it’s unpleasant. You are all the same: the last time I did a show in this group, it was the daughter of C Media (Mélanie Taravant, editor’s note) who explained to me for half an hour I don’t know what anymore”.
“I am courageous and I take responsibility for everything!”
And continue, still angrier: “If your job is to take the three stupid things I’ve done in 40 years of career, keep going, but it’s null and void ! What do you want to say ? That I’m macho, that I’m horrible?” Philippe Vandel tried to regain control and apologize, but Thierry Ardisson had difficulty coming down: “I am courageous! I attacked Bolloré, I was the only one to attack Bolloré, and I will go to the end.” Thierry Ardisson surely forgets his colleague Maïtena Birabenwhich condemned the Canal+ group on appeal to 3.5 million euros fine in July 2021.