He holds the record for longevity of a daily show, and beat Michel Denisot, who spent eight years hosting Le Grand Journal. At the head of
Do not touch My TV
for eleven and a half years, Cyril Hanouna has experienced a lot of controversy, and numerous fines. But in front of the National Assembly this Thursday March 14, 2024, the host and producer, supported by his general director Lionel Eisensteinassured that these only concerned “0.12% of TPMP airtime” since the launch of the brand in April 2010 on France 4, and its arrival on D8 (now C8) in October 2012.
If he considers that certain fines are unjustified or disproportionate, such as the one he received on June 22, 2023 for “clandestine advertising” after wearing t-shirts on which the brands were identifiable on the screen during two broadcasts, Cyril Hanouna, however, admits mistakes. The host thus admitted having made a mistake by inviting Gérard Fauré in April 2023. The celebrity dealer, who boasts of having supplied many stars of show biz and the political class with drugs for many years, caused Cyril Hanouna and C8 to lose 500,000 euros in March 2023 by claiming that adenochrome was a drug taken from the blood of kidnapped children.
“Eternal youth”, Cyril Hanouna was unable to challenge
Indeed, in front of more than two million viewers on March 9, 2023, Gérard Fauré affirmed that Pierre Palmade had indulged in an adenochromia session during an evening. According to the dealer, approved by a hilarious speaker on set, “three children” Would’ve been “kidnapped by Romanians in Spain and Italy” to allow Pierre Palmade to get “eternal youth”. Words that Cyril Hanouna did not know how to regulate, by going in the direction of his speaker, by affirming that this conspiracy theory was very present on X (then Twitter), thus leaving doubt about this theory with xenophobic origins.
Before the rapporteur Aurélien Saintoul
and the chairman of the session Quentin Battalion, Cyril Hanouna admitted that this sequence escaped him, and recognizes that the intervention of Gérard Fauré on his sets was an error. The TPMP host assured that the septuagenarian was no longer welcome on his shows: “He will never be invited again, he cost us 500,000 euros”argued the producer. A few years ago, the dealer came to promote one of his novels in It’s just TVthe show hosted by Valérie Bénaïm between 2018 and 2020.