The wheel of fortune saw several animators marching on his set. After Michel Robbe, Christian Morin, Alexandre Debanne or Olivier Chiabodo, it was Christophe Dechavanne who took control of the famous game broadcast on TF1. From 2006 to 2011, the host presented the program alongside Victoria Silvstedt. And if on the screen the duo seemed to display a beautiful complicity, behind the scenes it was different. Monday September 12, 2022, many years later, the pretty blonde gives herself up on Radio Monaco, at the microphone of How are Riou.
Christophe Dechavanne hosted the game while Victoria Silvstedt was responsible for displaying the letters according to the candidates’ answers. Wide smiles, sweet words and funny jokes were the daily life of the 64-year-old host and his fellow model, now 47 years old. However, in reality, the atmosphere was not always so good-natured…”At first, the first two years were great. In the end, it got harder because, I don’t know… Maybehe’s started to get a little big-headed“, then indicates the pretty blonde. Then, the Swede wants to qualify. Since that time, everything has been arranged between them: “But I still talk to him. We are friends, but it was a little intense at the end. I was trying to be patient and zen so as not to [réagir]. There was a lot of friction.“
Despite everything, Victoria Silvstedt has good memories of this period when she officiated in The wheel of fortune. Also, she indicates that she came out of it stronger, despite the air of sexism at times: “I learned my French like that, with vowels and consonants, and it was for show. Thanks to that, I did a lot of shows. It gave me a good image to do something else.“And then, even if Christophe Dechavanne was able to be hard on her at times, in 2010, with our colleagues from TV Magazineshe confided that she had “a weak“for him! However, nothing ever happened between the two acolytes…