Julien Lepers has not forgotten. At the end of 2015, the 71-year-old host was brutally dismissed by France 3 after nearly 30 years of good and loyal service. Wishing to rejuvenate the antenna, the leaders had opted for Samuel Etienne to replace him. “I leave Questions for a champion against my will and death in my soul“, he had reacted at the time.
Disgusted and devastated by this sudden eviction which i did not expect, Julien Lepers had announced his intention to sue FremantleMedia, the game production company, to the prud’hommes. If he claimed more than 3.4 million euros for moral damage, the host had seen his requests rejected by the court and had to “settle” for 800,000 €.
Guest Saturday evening of “TPMP People”, Julien Lepers returned to this painful departure that he prefers to forget today. Matthieu Delormeau nevertheless questioned him about his statements, when he reproached that the chain gave in to the sirens of “youth”. “At the same time, David Pujadas, outside, William Leymergie, outside, Patrick Sébastien, outside, Gérard Holtz, outside, Georges Pernoud, outside, that’s all, I’m just saying that. Is this normal, not normal…“, did not fail to underline the one to whom we owe the title interpreted by Herbert Léonard, “For pleasure”.
“Didn’t you know you were in a ruthless milieu?”, bounced the columnist Hugo Manos. “It’s true, maybe I was in another world. I was really the head in the handlebars, I worked a lot. It worked well but it requires a lot of work upstream. I didn’t think it could happen to me overnight, just by the will of someone who decided that there are too many white men, over 50, three discriminations in the same sentence punishable by law, it was complicated. Discrimination of sex, race and age“, he struck. He also scratched his successor Samuel Etienne when Matthieu Delormeau raved about the career of Julien Lepers. “You have to make the show because if you take the journalist who says the questions as he announces a news…“, dropped the former host. An indirect but clear way to settle accounts …