Cyril Hanouna against the Insoumis. This Thursday, March 14, the host and flagship producer of C8 is summoned to the National Assembly by Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s group, as part of a parliamentary commission of inquiry into the renewal of channel 8 granted to the channel of Vincent Bolloré (who was auditioned the day before). The host of TPMP faced questions from the session chairman Quentin Battaliondeputy for the 1st constituency of the Loire, and his rapporteur Aurélien Saintoul, deputy for the 11th constituency of Hauts-de-Seine. But in the middle of the session, the tone rose between the latter and the host.
Indeed, while the questions were intended to be neutral, Aurélien Saintoul stepped out of his role, and the neutrality to which he is subject, and gave a personal opinion on the financial situation of Cyril Hanouna. An attitude immediately condemned by his counterpart, chair of the session, who reminded him of the practices of the session. “As for the amounts of the fines, I can also respectfully suggest, that you are thinking about possibly reducing your salary. I think there is a little margin. And you would not deprive the public of quality programs“ said the rapporteur in the middle of the session, following the answers given by Cyril Hanouna to questions relating to the numerous fines that the former CSA and current Arcom have imposed on him since 2017.
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A totally gratuitous diatribe which immediately made the chairman of the session, Quentin Bataillon, come off his hinges, who called his colleague to order: “I’m not sure that this clarification was really useful. We only have 39 minutes of hearing, and this type of personal attacks is not useful, and you know that from experience. This never puts either the interviewees or the other members of the commission in a good position to continue, so the parenthesis on salary is not necessarily useful !” When Cyril Hanouna was able to speak again, he wanted to counter the elected official’s allegations, claiming not to know himself the salaries he receives: “I am happy to know that Mr. Rapporteur you know my salary, because even I don’t know him. You must have watched Further investigation”. Atmosphere…