In 2017, Tex’s life changed. As he presented a new issue of Z’Amours on France 2 as usual, the host allowed himself a daring joke and considered to be in very bad taste on battered women. As a result, he was fired from the channel after seventeen years of loyalty. Five years later, Tex still has trouble understanding how he could have come to this. “Of course it was bullshit since I was fired… but fire someone for a joke when his job is to make jokes. At some point, I no longer knew what world I was in“, he confided in TPMP People Thursday, April 28, 2022.
Fortunately, Tex has always been able to count on the support of his family, he who is married to Béatrice and father of three children (Justine, Victor and Lothaire). One of his sons, Lothair, precisely accompanied him on the C8 show and the 16-year-old teenager was even called upon to appear on the set live. A little uncomfortable with his microphone in hand, the tall boy with long hair did not deliver a very long testimony. He was still able to confide that at the time of the controversy around his father, he had not been very affected. “We were young, we didn’t give a damn about TV“, he assured. Lothair even found positive in the dismissal of Tex. “It makes dgood to have a father present“, he let go.
A protective father for his three children
It must be said that the life of the host was previously radically different. “I had a sick schedule inevitably. At the end of a program, I took a motorcycle taxi to take a train and play in Lyon, go to bed, leave at 7am, catch a train and return to the programs“, he recalled. But regardless, Tex was always very protective of his children.”I have always sheltered them a lot and there I don’t know if it’s good for me to make him come on TV because it can have a terrible impact on them at school. I have always been very careful with my children but hey there he is happy and then he is handsomeso it has to show up“, he said, amused in front of his son.