“I have always been close to the people who work with us. “
With the teams of” C à vous “Thursday evening on France 5,
Christophe Dechavanne
enjoyed reviewing images from his long television career, from “It’s even better in the afternoon” in the 80s on Antenne 2 up to “The Wheel of Fortune” in the 2000s, including “Hello, it's us!
in the 90s on TF1.
Memories that show him complicit with his guests, his colleagues as well as with the candidates of the games he was able to host.
"When there are people who say that I don't like people, I want to blow their noses
," he said with a touch of humor mixed with annoyance.
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And to defend himself:
“One day TF1 told me that I was odious with the technicians.
But there isn't a guy in my line of work who knows all the technicians by their first names.
It is not a position”.
This proximity to people, Christophe Dechavanne says he showed it on the air, especially in game shows.
“I brought that into games, I genuinely love people and I don't pretend.
To illustrate his point
, the 64-year-old host and producer revealed that the daughter of a candidate (shown in “C to you” in an excerpt from “The Wheel of Fortune”) gave him news of her mother.
“It touched me and I'm very happy that you show it because it's symbolic and symptomatic of my relationship with people, including in games.
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This season, Christophe Dechavanne is with Léa Salamé every Saturday evening on France 2 in “Quelle époque!
".
After the launch of the show last weekend, he told us that he felt very well with the talk show team.
"Everyone said everything and anything about the places that Léa and I could or could not hold... Everything is going very well, at all levels"
, he assured us, lucid about his performance and aware of its room for improvement.
“I announced that Léa was the boss and I number 2, it suits me very well like that.
Psychologically, I manage to hold on.
I'm on pills but I'm holding on.
(Laughs.)
I'm kidding huh but you can write it.
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