It was three years ago, Cyril Féraud announced the sad news on his social networks. His father, Michel, died at the age of 65 from cancer. “Illness has just snatched my Dad away from me. Life is sometimes cruel. I am devastated with sadness and grief. If you’re lucky enough to have your parents, don’t forget to tell them every day that you love them.”reacted the host on his Instagram account.
A terrible ordeal on which the host in vogue of France Televisions returned on several occasions. “The loss of my dad just made me realize how cruel life is. It transformed me. I know how precious time is and that building a family is as important as a successful professional life.”he had reacted in particular in the columns of Télé Poche.
“No question of making the puppet”
Guest this weekend of the media show We redo the TV on RTL, the emblematic host of slam again confided in this drama which turned him upside down and forced him to temporarily put his career as an animator on hold. “When my dad was hospitalized and I understood the outcome, it was out of the question for me to go on a TV set and make a puppet saying ‘I hope you are well and that you have smile’. I was going to lose my father“, he recalled. “I am very attached to my professional life but here they could have replaced me with anyone, I did not care”he added.
Foreseeing, Cyril Féraud even confided that he had warned two animators to replace him in the event that he did not see himself finding the film sets. “When you stop everything for two months, at one point, you come to a break in broadcasting, and I had made a phone call to Laurent Luyat and Damien Thévenot, two people I am very, very close to, saying, ‘ If I can’t go shoot Slam, you replace me’ “, he specified. A precaution which was not necessary since Cyril Féraud had finally been able to resume the filming of slam.