A presence, a voice, a sense of humor which happily accompanied TF1 viewers until 2001. Philippe Risoli was, at the height of his notoriety, unquestionably the most popular presenter of his generation, masterfully leading, with a smile and sometimes amusing clumsiness, programs such as The Right Price, Millionaire – of which we know the hilarious parody of Les Inconnus!-, or even Jeopardy. Today, at the dawn of his 70th birthday, -he will celebrate them on September 9, 2023-, the man has decided to indulge in poignant confidences in his autobiography. Tell my son that I love him which will be published on September 7, by L’Archipel editions. This title is the last words of his father, who died in 2021, killed by cancer.
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“We stare at each other in silence…”
Behind the one who tried in the past to get into the song, -we especially remember Cook the bananas, released in 2001-, thus unfolds his professional but above all personal life. The loss of her father having acted as an emotional trigger for the writing of her memoirs. This former little boy from the popular Saint-Ouen at the time, near Paris, born to a French mother and an Italian immigrant father, thus looks back on the last moments of the latter, with emotion and talent: “At the end of a July afternoon, at the palliative care center in Amiens, I approach my father’s bed. We have lived intensely for the past three years.But the “crab” progresses, without remission. We stare at each other in silence. I then hear him murmur, with a wave of his hand: “Go away…I don’t want you to see me die.” Two, three minutes watching him again from the corridor, motionless next to Anne, my wife, until the nurse ordered us to leave. The next day, she will tell me that my father has passed away.
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“Tell my son that I love him…” These were, she told me, her last words. I am now an orphan. My whole life as a child and young man, surrounded by my family, passes before my eyes… I see us again, reunited for Christmas dinner in 1965. I am twelve years old and think only of replaying with my friends from the “zone” the cloak and dagger films seen at the local cinema… My head is full of dreams and hopes. They will take fifteen years to come true, from my beginnings at Sud Radio to my first broadcast on Canal+.” Since his departure from TF1, this father himself of two children he had with his wife Anne, has decided to devote himself to theater and writing… with success.
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