On November 10, 2022 on the C8 set, a violent clash broke out between Louis Boyard and Cyril Hanouna. The latter invited his ex-columnist, just a rebellious deputy elected in the 3rd constituency of Val-de-Marne, to react on a subject, but the young politician deviated by mentioning Vincent Bolloré. A diatribe that Cyril Hanouna immediately contested, and which was followed by a big clash, during which the television man violently attacked his former columnist. The latter immediately filed a complaint for “public insults against an elected official of the Republic”, and the host and producer responded a few weeks later with legal action for “public defamation”.
This Thursday, March 14, 2024, interviewed at the National Assembly by the LFI group with a view to the retransmission of channels 8 and 16 to C8 and CNEWS by Arcom, Cyril Hanouna and his CEO Lionel Eisenstein returned to this episode which cost more than 3.5 million eurosa record sum which exceeded the fine imposed a few years earlier by the former CSA on the homophobic hoax orchestrated in Radio Baba. For Cyril Hanouna, the young man who was in front of him and whom he insulted was not an MP, but a former “pal” who betrayed him: “Of course, I regret the comments I made towards him. But when Louis Boyard came on set, I was not seeing a deputy, and I should have, but I was seeing a friend. A friend who betrays me, live“.
“That’s it Cyril, I am elected deputy, we will be able to make darkas”
In his explanation, Cyril Hanouna did not hesitate to reveal the SMS messages he exchanged with Louis Boyard when the latter was elected Deputy of the Nation, in June 2022: “When he was elected, at midnight, he sent me a message: in essence, it said That’s it Cyril, I am elected deputy, we will be able to make darkas. And a few months later, I see a boy on set, who is not at all the same as the boy I knew, and with whom I laughed in the dressing rooms, the one with whom we spent hours chat before the shows, the one with whom we said we were going to have a drink”.
Cyril Hanouna concluded, declaring “disappointed” of having lost a friend on whom he thought he could count: “I was not only disappointed in his attitude, but also disappointed to lose the one I considered not as a friend but as a good friend. And there’s one thing that drives me crazy, and that’s betrayal. And I took his attitude on the air as a betrayal.”