Monday August 29, Cyril Hanouna will be back on C8 with a new season of Do not touch My TV. This is the 13th season of the show which is still as successful as ever. So much so that it filled the host’s pockets well. Indeed, the latter is today “armoredas Elise Goldfarb and Julia Layani pointed out in their podcast Elise & Julia to which he was invited.
But no matter how much money he earns, Cyril Hanouna assures him, he is always the same. “You don’t actually realize it. You don’t really change jobs, you always do the same thing. Me, I still have the same friends who have been with me since I was at school“, he confided. The flagship presenter also explains that having a comfortable salary has never been his priority. It is his passion for television that pushes him to multiply the projects. “My goal was not to make money, it was doing TV and enjoying it. The guy who says to himself: ‘I’m going to do TV because I want to make money’ or ‘I’m going to do something because I want to become armored’, he’s dead. For me, this is not the right approach at all.“.
It must be said that Cyril Hanouna has experienced more difficult episodes in the past. Indeed, before arriving at the top of the podium, his career was rather struggling to take off. When the broadcast Morning Live, which he presented on M6 to replace Michaël Youn, stopped in 2003, he even found himself penniless. “I struggled for years, I was in trouble. My mother gave me 200 euros a week and I lived on that. I had nothing else“, he remembered. At that time, Cyril Hanouna was even struggling to find accommodation: “I lived in a studio. I couldn’t pay him too much because I had burned everything. I had all my stuff in my car. I had a Smart, with the little trunk, and I had all my things in it“Since he lifted his head above water, he has never forgotten that difficult time. Nor his parents for that matter, always behind him to make sure he keeps his head on his shoulders.”That’s why my parents are always a little stressed about it. They tell themselves that it can turn“, he reported.