Definitely, for some time and in just two appearances, Laurent Fontaine has managed to make a small place for himself in the universe of TPMP and Cyril Hanouna. Last Saturday, February 5, the former host atomized many show business personalities in TPMP People, causing the fury of some. And it is not Afida Turner who will say the opposite.
Back on the bench of columnists for “Don’t touch my post!” Tuesday February 8 in “Le 6 à 7” on C8, the former acolyte of Pascal Bataille notably returned to the judgment of “There is only the truth that counts” a few years ago. “Because we were doing a little less well in audiences, because TF1 at the time was changing program lines“, he explained when Cyril Hanouna asked him why the program had stopped. “It cost a little more and instead they put ‘Dr. House’ everywhere“, told Laurent Fontaine before adding: “They made fiction rather than flow“.
Laurent Fontaine recounts his ousting from TF1
After almost five seasons of presence on the air, Laurent Fontaine then recounts this moment when he and Pascal Bataille are summoned to TF1. And at that time the news did not look very good for the duo which gathered up to 4 million viewers in the second half of the evening on the channel. “Just in the elevator, you was on you, I swear“, he confided, mimicking with Valérie Bénaïm, who also worked on the front page, the climb to the 14th floor of the Boulogne-Billancourt tower, that of Étienne Mougeotte’s office. “He tells us: ‘You boys are part of the family’. Usually there’s a big knife behind it and lo and behold, we came out with no more emission. I cried a little for the money sic) that it represented, I also cried because we employed 100 people”, relates Laurent Fontaine.
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