This Saturday, June 11 at 9:10 p.m. on TF1 will be broadcast the first issue of the show 30 years of cult shows. This first issue will be devoted to the period (1990-2000). This will be an opportunity for viewers to see (or see again) the highlights of this decade (the death of Lady Diana in 1997, the victory of the French team in 1998…) and also the programs that marked that time (Le Bigdil, Club Dorothée, Sacrée Soirée, Frou-Frou, Coucou C’est Nous, Le Juste Prix…). All supplemented by the testimonies of animators (former and current) who have experienced this period closely.
21 years after his eviction, he swings on TF1
Among these animators who marked the 1990s and more particularly TF1, Philippe Risoliat the controls of Right price from 1992 to 2001 but also from Millionaire from 1991 to 1999.
In an interview given to TV Starthe 68-year-old ex-host looks back on his ouster from TF1 and his crossing of the desert in the 2000s. “Everything stopped suddenly: on August 31, 2001, I was at TF1 and on September 1, I was no longer there!testifies Philippe Risoli. On some level, the phone doesn’t shut down overnight. It rings less and you who have never called end up making a few calls, even if you don’t like to beg. Naively, I thought that professional qualities always end up winning. But there is in this profession, a bunch of envious and embittered people who put your head under water. So I had two or three difficult years, but lucky to have a family who supported me.”
In this same interview, Philippe Risoli also shares his only regret, that of having participated in season 2 of The Celebrity Farm on TF1 in 2005: “Because I was told that if I did this show, they would immediately find me another one on the air. The first time, I refused categorically, then they were more precise in their positions which, ultimately did not materialize”. Fortunately, Philippe Risoli was able to bounce back in the theater by playing in particular in the play Good pick and also in Matignon trap where he played the husband of Nathalie Marquay-Pernaut.
Upcoming revelations?
Philippe Risoli seems to be so heavy on his heart that he may well go a little further in his attacks. In any case, this is what he suggests in another passage of his interview with Star TV. “One day, a new program director arrives and some, who you thought were your friends when they were eyeing your place, end up stealing it from you. I didn’t want to do it at the time but I will tell it one day“, confides the former animator turned actor.
Revelations that are likely to make a lot of noise when they come out…