It is an understatement to say that the presidential election is heating up people’s minds. In ten short days, the French will be called upon to vote in the first round for their favorite candidate and, in the meantime, everyone has their opinion. In Do not touch My TV, policy debates are increasingly raging. A few days ago, Laurent Fontaine notably defended President Emmanuel Macron, whom he supports, on the set of Cyril Hanouna and tackled Eric Zemmour’s activists after his meeting in Paris, calling them “facho”, of “reaction” and “homophobes”. Words that have earned him to receive heavy threats on social networks.
On Wednesday March 30, 2022, Laurent Fontaine was invited to return to the subject, alongside Fabien Roussel, candidate of the French Communist Party (PCF). The latter particularly wanted to defend these activists “angry” according to him and who no longer really know where to turn in politics. But for Géraldine Maillet, anger is not always an excuse. “Nazi salutes in Villepinte are not anger…“, she dropped, referring to the meeting of Eric Zemmour.
A remark that made Cyril Hanouna come out of his hinges, who had just attacked Gilles Verdez. “Lesson givers like you, we’re fed up! The lesson givers like you who are going to tell the French ‘You have to vote for so-and-so’, we are fed up !“, he addressed to him very annoyed. And to continue: “Have some respect for the French. Let me talk, you are unbearable! The French, they do what they want. They are not like you with a comfortable salary, with a very good life…“
A very personal attack to which reacted Géraldine Maillet, stung to the quick. “You don’t know my life! I’m 50, you don’t know what I did before, you don’t know my background. What do you know about my life?!“, she retorted before threatening to leave the set: “If that’s how I shut up, and maybe I’ll even leave.“If she started to gather her things, the columnist finally stayed until the end of the show, but in a rather icy atmosphere…