Would Michel Drucker be facing new health concerns? In February 2023, the newspaper “Le Parisien” revealed that the 80-year-old host was “hospitalized in Île-de-France for a battery of medical tests”. Important examinations directly related to his heavy heart operation suffered in 2020.
To be sure to recover well, the presenter of “Vivement Dimanche” had then decided to take leave following this control hospitalization: “We agreed with Michel that he take the time to rest after his exams. I talk to him every day and he is doing very well,” confided Stéphane Sitbon-Gomez, director of antennas and programs for the public audiovisual group. In the process, it was announced that Michel Drucker was to make his comeback on television in March 2023, in order to take over the reins of his program “Vivement Dimanche”, now broadcast on France 3.
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Michel Drucker heart surgery
This Thursday March 23, 2023, it is once again “Le Parisien” which announces that Michel Drucker underwent, on Monday March 20, a new heart operation in a Parisian health establishment. Our colleagues also affirm that the host “spent nearly five hours in the block for an intervention at the level of the mitral valve”. This intervention would have been planned “at the end of last week by the medical profession after the detection of a bacterium during medical examinations”.
They then give good news: the operation went very well and Michel Drucker was in the recovery room this Thursday, March 23 and would have “woke up without difficulty” as Stéphane Sitbon-Gomez assured him. This unforeseen operation will force the host to postpone his return to France 3, initially scheduled for the month of April. “Michel wants to come back on the air before the end of the season. In any case, it won’t be for April,” declared Stéphane Sitbon-Gomez.
As a reminder, Michel Drucker had undergone in 2020, a very heavy heart operation which had led to a three-week hospitalization. In convalescence, the animator had also almost had a leg amputated because of a post-operative infection.
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