It is a whole part of the life of Alexandre Devoise which collapsed on October 25, 2017 when he learned of the death of Philippe Vecchi. The journalist, now star of Téléshopping, worked with him for a long time in the 1990s. The two men formed a powerful duo, accomplices at all times and perfectly represented the famous Canal spirit that everyone dreamed of and talked about at the time. Despite having different career paths after leaving the encrypted channel, the two friends had stayed in touch, to the point of becoming “more than friends“, in the words of Alexandre Devoise.
Learning that Philippe Vecchi had ended his life on October 24, 2017 at just 53 years old rang Alexandre Devoise. The latter had expressed himself in the pages of France Sunday a few months after the death of Masha Polikarpova’s husband, referring to “a shock of incredible violence“: “I had it online a few days before. Philippe was a very fragile person and the outcome is unfortunately terrible. After the dazzling success we experienced on the channel – quite exceptional at the time – that was Canal, Philippe had a hard time bouncing back (…) Both of us have always been bottom and bottom, living twelve years of our life together, a bit like a couple. We worked together, we went on weekends together and on vacation together.“
If he could not suspect that Philippe Vecchi was going to commit such a gesture, Alexandre Devoise confided at the time that this sad outcome was the one he had been dreading for a while: “To tell you the truth, I had been anticipating a tragedy for a very long time, and at the same time, when it happens, you never expect it. It’s very sad“Philippe Vecchi killed himself at his home, in Roanne in the Loire, on October 24, 2017. It was only the day after this tragedy that his parents discovered his lifeless body. A disappearance that had upset the medium of television…