“I made a difference in my fight”

Here he is again on the podium. Jean-Luc Reichmann ranks 2nd in the ranking TVMagazine favorite animators of the French, behind Stéphane Plaza and in front of Nagui. He is the only one to be on the air 356 days a year, in front of some three million daily viewers for his game The 12 strokes of noon. TF1 is preparing to celebrate the programme’s twelve years.

From June 26, 56 champions will compete to win the title of “greatest master of midday masters”. And on Saturday July 2 at 11:15 p.m., a documentary will be devoted to Jean-Luc Reichmann, to discover the man behind the host.

His life begins with a handicap: an angioma on his nose. This earned him the nickname “The stain” at school, from the children but also sometimes from the teachers. “I overcame this trauma through humor and the love of my loved ones.says Jean-Luc Reichmann. I think today that it’s our little differences that will make the difference, we have to do something positive with it.”

“I made a difference in my fight. That’s why when I started presenting Les Z’Amours on France 2, very quickly I no longer wanted my stain to be hidden with make-up. I have a stain on my nose, people had to know that.”

Jean-Luc Reichmann, animator

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Before becoming a star of the small screen, it was in free radio that Jean-Luc Reichmann cut his teeth. He was 21 and still living in Toulouse. His life changed on November 9, 1989: “The day the Berlin Wall came down, people called me on the phone and said, ‘Are you available to do the voiceovers for TF1 trailers?’ That was the trigger. That day was the first time people discovered my voice on TF1, where I would remain the voice of trailers for ten years.”

He also becomes the voice-over of several games, in particular those of Nagui, of advertisements. Until he was asked to host his own entertainment. It will be The Z’Amoursbefore going to TF1 where he created WATCH YOUR STEP then The 12 strokes of noon. Today, Jean-Luc Reichmann is also an actor. Since 2013, he has played the commander of the miners’ brigade Léo Mattéi in the eponymous series, which has achieved very good audiences. We will also soon find him at the head of the show Game of talents after Jarry’s departure on public service.

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