Christophe Dechavanne made his comeback on television on September 24, 2022. He is Léa Salamé’s “permanent guest” in What an era! For the occasion, he was invited by Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine to It’s up to youon France 5. The opportunity for him to make an update on his reputation.
He is one of the emblematic presenters of the PAF. Christophe Dechavanne has been at the helm of several cult shows such as Hello it’s us, Sky, my Tuesday or The wheel of fortune. And for years, the 64-year-old has had a bad reputation behind him. Aware of what he was saying about himself, he took advantage of his time in It’s up to you to react. Viewers were first able to (re)discover images of him in which they saw him close to a candidate for The Wheel of Fortune. And he revealed that the contestant’s daughter recently contacted him to inform him of her mom’s death. “We had had a very funny time as we have been able to spend in the games. My way of being in games was very different, it was very close to people“, he confided at first.
Christophe Dechavanne then responded to those who accuse him of not being sympathetic. “That’s why when there are people who say ‘Dechavanne he doesn’t like people’, all that, I want to blow their noses because… One day TF1 said to me ‘in any case, you are odious with the technicians’ (…) but there is not a guy in my profession who knows the technicians by all their first namesand it is not a posture. I have always been close to the people who work with us, who sometimes waited for me because I was a little late for check-in. (…) But really in the games, I brought something that was this: I like people, it’s not a posture, I don’t pretend“, he concluded.
As a reminder, during an interview for the Génération podcast Do It YourselfAlexia-Laroche Joubert confided that Christophe Dechavanne had a “sacred character“and that he was”unbearable to produce“. Victoria Silvstedt, his former sidekick from The wheel of fortune, had also not been kind about him. “In the end, it got harder because, I don’t know… Maybe he started to get a little big-headed“, she had declared in particular in How are Riou (Radio Monaco).