In a long interview he gave to Parisian this Saturday March 16, 2024, Michel Drucker explains the reasons which pushed him to cancel his participation in the show What games, which he should have overseen with Léa Salamé during the Olympic Games. Due to a delicate state of health, following the open heart operation he underwent a few months ago and the many problems that preceded and followed it, Michel Drucker must adjust his professional schedule And reduce your commitments as much as possible. So, if the doctors allow him to turn Roll on Sunday every Wednesday afternoon, the daily coverage of the 2024 Olympics, for a month, seemed too dangerous for the 81-year-old host.
“Unfortunately I won’t be able to be there because my doctors forbid me. I’ll try to see if I can’t get a head in first. It would be a beautiful symbol, being the last survivor of the Tokyo Olympic Games sixty years ago.” explained the host, who revealed that his advanced age now forces him to work differently: “I have radically changed my life. I work remotely, I watch my guests’ films at home, the matinee shows on the weekends. I also do an hour and a half of sport per day and regular check-ups. I never go out in the evening. On the recommendation of my doctors, I have to be in bed by 11 p.m., which is not a problem for me. I make an exception on Saturday evening to be able to watch Quelle Époque by Léa Salamé on France 2.”
He is preparing a new show dedicated to celebrity parents
The cardiologists, however, accepted that Michel Drucker
hosts a new show intended for France 3, and that it will be filming in a few weeks. She will be baptized My mother, my father and Michel Drucker, and will give pride of place to the parents of the celebrities he invites to his set. An idea that came to him a few weeks ago, and which will see the light of day on Mother’s Day 2025: “It should start in September. I am also working on a new show whose working title is My mother, my father and Michel Drucker. It will concern the parents of the artists because I realized that I knew many of them personally, from Dany Boon to Kad Merad, including Patrick Bruel. There will be images of my past meetings with them and others will be present on set. It should be broadcast in 2025 on France 3, in prime time for Mother’s Day.”
He flies to the aid of Aya Nakamura, he too wants to see her on the stage of the 2024 Olympics
Replaced at short notice by Laurent Luyat as host of What gamesMichel Drucker hopes to have a role to play on the coverage of the 2024 Olympics, which will mark his 60 years in public service. The host actually started as a sports journalist and commented on the 1964 Olympics, during which Édith Piaf sang. In this regard, the host wanted to react to the controversy sparked by Aya Nakamura, who could be chosen to succeed the French singer: “It’s an original idea, a beautiful sign of openness, like what France is. I would like her to sing a song by Piaf like L’Hymne à l’amour or Revoir Paris , which Joséphine Baker sang. That would look great! She is an impressive artist.” And to conclude, like Hugues Aufray and Patrick Bruel before him: “The racist attacks against her are despicable.”