It is a comeback that Christophe Dechavanne is about to make on the small screen. From September 24, he will be on France 2 every Saturday evening alongside Léa Salamé in the channel’s new program entitled What an era. The host was chosen to be a “permanent guest” from the talk show after a long slump. Indeed, he had not appeared on TV since 2021, when he briefly presented Take it or leave it on C8. An ultimately inconclusive experience that came after an equally disappointing season of I’m a celebrity, get me out of here! on TF1 in 2019. Christophe Dechavanne was then convinced that his career on the small screen was over. “Everyone has my number, and it’s not ringing. We’re not going to fool ourselves after a while“, he regretted in Telematin.
It must be said that, if he has the talent, Christophe Dechavanne apparently does not always have the way with his colleagues. And his partner with Léa Salamé is undoubtedly highly anticipated in view of recent revelations. His former colleague Victoria Silvstedt, with whom he presented The wheel of fortune on TF1 in the 2000s, revealed that it was very difficult to get along with him. “There was a lot of friction“, she explained on Radio Monaco. A feeling that can only be shared by Alexia Laroche-Joubert. The producer and Christophe Dechavanne had collaborated together in 2003 for the program Nice People. She believes that at the time he was then “on the edge of the abyss” and that this reality TV show was the right way to relaunch his career. But off, not everything went well.
“He’s got a hell of a character, he’s unbearable to producehe knows it, I already told him“, she told for the podcast Do It Yourself Generation. In her eyes, Christophe Dechavanne is undoubtedly the person with whom she had the most difficulty working: “We slammed doors in the face like never before, I think he’s the guy I’ve argued with the most“. Alexia Laroche-Joubert recognizes despite everything that he is an outstanding animator. “When working with it, the program always goes up“, she pointed out.
Léa Salamé will be able to realize this for herself, but some are already imagining that their duo will not do the trick. “I’m already announcing to Léa Salamé that she’s going to be eaten“said Matthieu Delormeau in TPMP People last September 10, even predicting that they would “to hate oneself“. Answer very soon…