“You don’t count that one for me, I barely drank anything and the glass wasn’t very clean,” he tells the waiter with a burst of laughter. In this café in Neuilly-sur-Seine (Hauts-de-Seine) where he is accustomed to it, Hervé Pouchol cannot help but negotiate and have fun with the staff. And at 64, the famous acolyte of Julien Courbet decided to relaunch a challenge that he had not attempted since 2009: reconciling neighbors in the middle of war for a new issue of the magazine “Arnaques”, broadcast this Tuesday at 9:10 p.m. on M 6. “I really spend several days immersed with them, in order to find a solution,” he says.
For this former radio and television host, the neighbors' war came from a bet. “The first years of
Without a doubt
(on TF 1 from 1994 to 2009), we were already having neighborhood quarrels, but with the faces blurred,” he says. And Julien Courbet told me:
I'll give you a review if you manage to get both parts in front of the camera
. I succeeded, and then he added:
Now we need a filmed negotiation
. So I went back to see the witnesses, I asked them to dress nicely and we started doing it in a neutral place, like a restaurant or a hotel, to find solutions. And quickly, it became one of the show's big hits. »