Stéphane Plaza’s life could have changed several years ago. Indeed, younger, the most famous real estate agent of the French audiovisual landscape was the victim of a terrible accident. And he was far from being at the end of his troubles… Sunday March 13, 2022, on the set of Can’t wait for Sunday (France 2) facing Michel Drucker, the 51-year-old host explains.
Comfortably installed in the mythical red armchair of the show, Stéphane Plaza sees Emmanuel Chaunu, caricaturist and French press cartoonist come to draw up the routes of the guests in images. It was then that he discovered a drawing of him lying on a hospital bed facing a doctor and workers ready to start the work. It was in 1998: Karine Le Marchand’s sidekick is “fell from above“and could have”lose your legs“as the designer says.
“I had a violent fall and broke my calcaneus and the tibia plateau“, then confides Stéphane Plaza on the set. And Michel Drucker to specify that the calcaneus, “those are the two heels“. Very quickly, the charming brunette was admitted to the hospital… where he faced a real disappointment. “How lucky I am in my life, the doctor has disappeared. So there is no assessment of the operation. We don’t know what he did to me and I have therefore been operated on nine times“, he recalls. At that time, his father finally undertook another solution: “He sent me to a center for very great athletes in Capbreton and it was the doctor there who saved me.“
For long weeks, Stéphane Plaza was faced with a choice that determined the rest of his life. “All alone in a room for four months, either you become embittered or you tell yourself that you can die tomorrow and you prefer to enjoy life and give all we can give“, he declares. His joie de vivre, his good humor and his naturalness even in front of the cameras that make his success come from there. “This accident made me bulimic for life“, he had declared to Paris Match in 2014.