“We did not agree and we regret it. It was in a very diplomatic way
that Alexandra Redde-Amiel, head of entertainment and games at France Télévisions, commented on the departures of Bertrand Renard and Arielle Boulin-Prat from the program "Des figures et des lettres" with the
Parisian / Today in France
.
After respectively 47 and 36 years of co-hosting in the game currently broadcast on France 3, the two specialists in calculations and words will be replaced at the start of the school year.
According to our colleagues from
Télé-Loisirs
, it is the former champion of the game Sébastien Crosnier who will succeed Bertrand Renard in a new version of "Numbers and letters" only broadcast on weekends with Laurent Romejko at the
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“It is humanly unacceptable before it is legally”
Bertrand Renard and Arielle Boulin-Prat
“We had chosen not to respond to requests from journalists, to digest this situation of rare violence”
, explained Bertrand Renard and Arielle Boulin-Prat in a joint press release sent Monday evening to AFP and Le
Parisien
.
“We would like to express to the public all our affection and all our sadness to leave it thus constrained and forced.
“
The two specialists wanted to tell their version of the facts
” less candy pink “
than that expressed by the leader of France Télévisions.
“We did not refuse the supposed new version of the game since it was never presented to us
,” they first reported.
“What is modestly referred to as a 'contractual disagreement' arose because FTV demanded a 60% reduction in our salary and refused to grant us the CDI that we had the audacity to claim.
[...] We are in CDD for 36 years for Arielle and 47 years for Bertrand... We do not exist whereas we are every day with the antenna.
This regularization was flatly refused, without explanation.
It is humanly unacceptable before it is legally.
»
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In the third and last point of their argument, Bertrand Renard and Arielle Boulin-Prat explained that they had no desire to leave the show.
“It is France Télévisions, where we have worked for so long, which chooses to separate from us, to act alone on a break which it has never been asked to do.
And
to conclude:
"The candy pink turns into soot black"
.
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