Guillaume Genton interviewed Arielle Boulin-Prat Friday on Virgin Radio during the morning "Le Morning sans filtre" which he co-hosts alongside Diane Leyre and Fabien Delettres.
The one who is also a columnist in “Touche pas à mon poste!
came back to the unexpected departures of his guest and Bertrand Renard from the game “Numbers and Letters” after several decades of good and loyal service.
On August 19, the management of France Télévisions revealed that its historic program was going to go from a daily broadcast from Monday to Friday to Saturday and Sunday afternoon slots on France 3. A new formula in which the two co-hosts of Laurent Romejko no longer exist due to a contractual disagreement according to the leaders of the public group.
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“It was not at all us who left the game, on the contrary, we were very attached
to it, declared Arielle Boulin-Prat on Virgin Radio.
As there were going to be two shows instead of five per week, our income was going to drop by 75%.
[...]
Bertrand and I, we earned about 4,000 euros per month for part-time, it was good.
We weren't complaining, we felt privileged to do this job that we loved.
The word
specialist in “Numbers and Letters” confirmed
that she had experienced a departure “of rare violence”
as explained in the joint press release sent on August 23 to AFP.
“We were the object of a very big contempt
, she added.
For the chain, we are nothing.
We haven't received any phone calls from anyone!
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Read also“They refused to continue their collaboration”: the response of France Télévisions to Bertrand Renard and Arielle Boulin-Prat of “Numbers and letters”
On August 24, the management of France Télévisions defended itself, in a press release, by affirming that contractual negotiations had indeed taken place during the month of June with the two animators.
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Madame Arielle Boulin-Prat and Mr. Bertrand Renard, hosts of this program engaged in CDD of use, refused to continue their collaboration under the new conditions which were proposed to them
", had it in particular been explained.
"We were fired in video in 10 minutes"
, revealed the one who had been on the air since 1986 while Bertrand Renard had been there since 1975. Both of them could not say goodbye to viewers in "Numbers and letters", the decision to their departure having been taken after the recording of the program which will be broadcast on September 11 on France 3.
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