Monday, May 23, 2022, the news had the effect of a bomb. Michel Drucker revealed in the columns of Parisian that he is about to leave France 2 with his famous red sofa. May the faithful of Vivement Dimanche be reassured, the program will not disappear but will now be broadcast on France 3. But the scarlet velvet of Sunday afternoon, Delphine Ernotte, boss of France Télévisions, no longer wants to see it on the second channel . The one who has already taken care of putting Patrick Sébastien, Tex or even Julien Lepers in the closet, does not therefore get rid of Michel Drucker who would have negotiated in return an extension of his contract. The head of France Télé would not have officially signed the agreement but she would like the 79-year-old host to remain on the air until 2025.
And even if he can live it as a kind of relegation, Michel Drucker sees his arrival on France 3 with a good eye. “When Stéphane Sitbon-Gomez (number 2 of France Télévisions, editor’s note) offered it to me, I thought it was great. I move. France 3 is part of my DNA. I will be the new incarnation with Cyril Féraud […] For me, it’s going to a channel that looks like me. I am a child from Basse-Normandie, hosted in Provence. I have always felt more provincial than Parisian“, he confided in the columns of the Parisian.
So who to replace Dany Saval’s husband? The name of Laurent Delahousse would have been cited. And that should not arrange the relations between the two men who would not be in good shape. : “In all my life, I have never criticized a colleague, I have been unfailingly loyal and faithful to public service. But there, it is too much. Because Laurent Delahousse is not a good guy […] He tried to make me believe he was courtesy personified. I have no grudges, but I have memory“, he had already declared to the Parisian in 2018.
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