On November 30, 2017, everything changed for Tex. “Guys, you know what they say to a woman who already has two black eyes? We don’t tell him anything! We have already explained to him twice!“, he had launched on the set of the show It’s only TV (C8). A joke in bad taste sanctioned by France 2. After 17 years at the controls of Z’Amours, the host had been fired. Saturday February 19, 2022, five years after the controversy, Tex explains.
guest of Don’t touch my people post, the 61-year-old host is asked about this joke about battered women. Matthieu Delormeau then asks him if he regrets it. It was then that Tex, now replaced by Bruno Guillon on the France 2 channel, concedes regret, but about “these magnitudes that it takes around a joke“. “I regret the lightness of the time and the fact thatwe were in a free country and we are losing that“, he continues.
Even more, Tex explains that some jokes, even in bad taste, can be of interest. “The valves that we make all have, more or less, an educational aspect. We don’t make jokes by chancehe says. When there is something that is hot, we have to go there. Let’s laugh at serious things before we have to cry.“
In May 2020, the former star of Z’Amours had indicated that his life had completely changed since this case. “I lost everything and like a good Breton, I had put some money aside, I had bought some apartments and all that. I think year after year I’ll sell it all and live on ithe told Jordan De Luxe. It’s terrible what I’m going to say, but you have to rely only on yourself. I am going to use Kennedy’s sentence which said that he don’t wait for the state to support you.”
Since then, Tex has bounced back. As he indicates on the set of Don’t touch my people posthe has “projects for plays, TV also on the right, on the left“. See you soon on the boards or on the small screen to find the host.