Over the years, Julien Courbet has become one of the key figures on the small screen. This Monday, February 7, 2022, the producer celebrates his 57th birthday. Passionate about his job, he is not ready to retire. To this day, he brilliantly shines in the show “It can happen to you” on M6. But when he started out, Julien Courbet had the honor of working with Jacques Martin for the shows “So do, do, do” and “Sunday Martin”. According to the statements of the main interested party, he would have lived a real hell by his side. In 2020 in the program “What I concern myself”, the happy father of two children spoke at length about this painful experience. Before their collaboration, he considered the ex-husband of Cécilia Attias to “genius”.“A man who had really come from elsewhere”, underlined Julien Courbet.
A time conquered by his personality, the husband of Catherine Courbet was quickly disillusioned. “He was tyrannical (…) very tough… I cried more than once. I landed in Paris and I found myself crying in the evening because he was very, very tough on set (…) It was still complicated“, confided the main interested party against Eric Naulleau.
During the interview, Julien Courbet also mentioned a terrible sketch that he revealed in the past to his colleague. For his passages, the former columnist of Cyril Hanouna had to automatically stand up in front of him. A deed enough “humiliating”, as he pointed out. “Jacques Martin looked at you like that (…) and from time to time, [il, NDLR] went into his thoughts and began to read the Bible. And you were doing a sketch alone in an office… It was ridiculous”, added Julien Courbet, bitter. Bad memories altogether…
In addition to TV, Lola and Gabin’s dad also got on the airwaves of… RMC. The year spent on the set of “We are live”, the star confided openly about his eviction. Making fun of the OM club would have cost him dearly. “The legend – but I have never been able to prove it – says that Bernard Tapie, who was president of OM, was in his car, he made a phone call and they came to get me at the end of the week. ‘episode”, he concluded.
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