In August 2012, Jean-Luc Delarue died, died of peritoneal cancer which he had made official nine months earlier during a press conference organized at the headquarters of France Télévisions. Then aged 48, he was unable to attend the launch of D8, the channel to which at the time contributed faces like Cyril Hanouna, Laurence Ferrari, Hapsatou Sy, Roselyne Bachelot and even Élisabeth Bost, the ex- wife of the deceased. At that time, no one could imagine that the show launched by D8 with Cyril Hanouna was going to be a real springboard for the host. For more than eleven steps, Cyril Hanouna successfully and controversially embodies the showDo not touch My TVin which he is surrounded daily by nine to ten columnists, including Valérie Bénaïm, Gilles Verdez and Danielle Moreau.
In Facing Hanouna this Saturday March 2, 2024, variation of the weekend of TPMP
in which he has just recruited Laurent Fontaine and Isabelle Chalençon, sister of Pierre-Jean Chalençon (Deal done), Cyril Hanouna delivered a funny anecdote which links him to Jean-Luc Delarue. Many years before dying, the man who was considered at the time as a sacred monster of the PAF had called Cyril Hanouna when the latter worked at Comédie!, the channel created by their mutual friend Dominique Farrugia. And the phone call Cyril Hanouna received turned out to be beneficial and futuristic.
Jean-Luc Delarue wants to meet him, Cyril Hanouna claims to have declined
“One day, Jean-Luc Delarue, he called me, he was completely shattered. A long, long, long time ago, I was starting on Comédie, I swear to you it’s true. He called me, he was broken. I don’t even know how he got my number, I think it was from Dominique Farrugia, they were friends at the time. And he calls me: Mr. Hanouna, it’s Jean-Luc Delarue. Yeah, hello Jean-Luc Delarue, I love you and everything” explained Cyril Hanouna, before assuring that the producer of It is discussed had then predicted one of the greatest television careers for him: “Mr Hanouna, you are going to become the greatest French presenter, I had a flash. I swear it’s true”.
Cyril Hanouna continued by assuring that Jean-Luc Delarue wanted to meet him, but the host claims to have rebuffed him: “He says to me: ‘Come see me tomorrow in my office. I say: No, I work with stuff and everything’. A refusal which may be surprising given the career that Cyril Hanouna had in the early 2000s. At that time, and the few television attempts he had made ended in bitter audience failures, such as the revival of Fa Si La Chanterthe relaunch of Morning Live without Michaël Youn, or the talk The door open to all the windows on France 4. It was necessary to wait for the arrival of TPMP on France 4acted by Nicolas Pernikoff then number 3 at France Télévisions, so that the career of the host-producer took off.