In mid-July, on the occasion of the press conference of France Télévisions, Stéphane Sitbon-Gomez, director of antennas and programs of the group, announced the programming during the Olympic Games of a new talk show presented by Léa Salamé and Michel Drucker and called "What Games!". It's a dream come true for the host of "What an Era!" "I am very honored and very happy. I didn't expect it at all when I got the call to tell me about it. I could never have imagined it! Five years ago, if someone had told me that I would do a show with Michel Drucker, I wouldn't have believed it. It's a dream, it's like having your own Rolex!" she told us last summer.
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Every evening for two weeks, in the second half of the evening and live, the duo must look back on "the highlights, the impressive victories, the most beautiful images, the most beautiful moments of the day," said Léa Salamé. To do so, they will be accompanied by journalists and commentators from the sports department of France Télévisions. They will also receive "sporting, cultural and why not political" guests.
"I'm not going to appear much, I'll be with Léa the first two maybe"
Michel Drucker
But if Léa Salamé, due to her lack of knowledge of sport, relied on Michel Drucker's expertise to have started his career in television in 1964 by covering the Tokyo Olympics when he was only 20 years old, she will have to do without him. And for good reason, according to our information, due to his recent health problems, the host will not officiate every night. "I'm not going to appear there much," he reveals. My cardiologists don't want me to do this every day because I've come a long way. I'll be with Léa the first two maybe," he says. "It's a talk show that airs from July 26 to August 11 around 23 p.m., which is considerable! I go to bed very early and I always have medication to take."
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In February 2023, two and a half years after his surgery for infective endocarditis of the mitral valve of the heart, Michel Drucker returned to the hospital again. Suffering from a severe fever and despite taking antibiotics, he underwent another operation after the detection of bacteria in his mitral valve. "My cardiologists [whose picture hangs in the host's dressing room at Studio Gabriel] consider me an alien, I shouldn't be here anymore. The prognosis was life-threatening several times, I was operated on twice seriously with eight to ten hours of anesthesia each time. That I'm still here, in my 82nd year, I find it hard to believe, in fact, no one can believe it," he said.