At the beginning of November, the Bouglione Winter Circus made room to host
“Le Grand Concours”
.
That evening,
Arthur
took to the track to celebrate with great fanfare twenty years of TF1 entertainment.
On the occasion of this exceptional evening, nineteen of the greatest champions accepted the invitation with the firm intention of winning the precious trophy.
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Behind the scenes, a few minutes before the start of filming, which we attended, the tension is palpable as the stakes seem high for some of the candidates.
“I'm always stressed because I'm competitive in life
,” tells us
Denis Brogniart,
who has three victories to his name.
“But usually there is not such a level
,” he remarks upon discovering his one-night opponents, including
Christophe Beaugrand
.
The two men know each other well to present “Ninja Warrior” together.
However, a rivalry (friendly obviously) drives them.
“Christophe Beaugrand is a mite because he hates losing.
He is capable of everything, of letting his intelligence speak and also being a little mediocre in fair play
,” balances the presenter of “Koh-Lanta” on one side.
“Denis Brogniart knows nothing about sport, he has been making people believe that for years when he is terrible at sport
,” adds the columnist of “Bonjour!”.
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That evening, Christophe Beaugrand was the most successful of the candidates.
“I’ve won six times, no five, sorry!”
, he blurted out like a slip of the tongue revealing his ambition.
Not enough to calm the vengeful spirit of some of its competitors.
“He’s full of himself, that one.
Your smugness annoys me.
Anyway, we all joined forces against you
,” reveals
Valérie Damidot
.
Christophe Beaugrand is, you will have understood, the man to take down.
“It’s going to be war but I’m going to defend my place dearly
,” he promises.
To do this, the host will certainly be able to count on the audience.
Because since the very beginnings of the “Grand Concours”, cheating has been legion or at least tolerated.
“There are a lot of blowings, blowings or blowings, I don’t know how to say it
,” recognizes
Sébastien Folin
.
And since there are 700 people at the Cirque d’hiver, I think it’s going to be strong
,” he says.
“It’s just cheating.
The best of all friends is
Bruno Guillon
.
If he knows the answer he helps, otherwise he doesn't say anything.
Arthur knows it but he can't do anything about it, this game is inerrant, if you don't cheat, it's useless.
There are very good cheats like Christophe Beaugrand with his “don’t-touch-it” look
, a more beautiful tackle from Valérie Damidot.
“I cheat but I take responsibility for it”
Christophe Beaugrand
“I cheat but I own it,” I said once that I shared my victory with the public. The problem is that sometimes people blow anything
,” defends Christophe Beaugrand.
“I get caught up in the game, so I can become a bit of a bad player, annoyed when it blows too much because it distorts the answers.
There are little bastards who give bad answers on purpose to make others lose, that's not good at all, it's not good spirit
,” deplores
Laurent Mariotte
.
A strategy that
Camille Cerf
uses .
“I’m a little bit deceitful, I give the wrong answers
,” concedes the former Miss France.
Due to his 1.93 m height, Denis Brogniart is never installed in the front row.
“These are the worst places
,” he emphasizes.
To celebrate this anniversary, Arthur invited
Carole Rousseau
and
Laurence Boccolini
.
The two hosts, who respectively presented the entertainment for fifteen and two years, each take turns taking control of the round and the final.
Barely entering the set, Arthur has a kind word for her:
“At this precise moment, all the TF1 viewers say:
“Ah, I preferred her!
Ah, it’s going to be better right away
.
”
“Le Grand Concours - Special 20 years” on TF1 at the Cirque d’hiver Bouglione.
Laurent VU / TF1.
Throughout the evening, there were many winks.
Thus, Julien Arnaud, champion of champions of the “Grand Concours” with six victories, was unable to be present due to his show “Un Œil sur le monde” on LCI.
However, the reporter recorded a question from the first round.
Jean-Pierre Foucault, Michel Drucker and Alex Vizorek showed their presence by also asking a question on video.
Several of the candidates also had the right to see a photo of themselves taken when they were twenty years old displayed on the big screen.
Nostalgia sequence!
After four hours of filming, “The Grand Contest” ended with a landslide victory.
“Very good, I am very happy, I feel more intelligent even though I am as stupid as at the beginning of the evening
,” the winner of the Victoire des Victoires confides to us directly. whose identity we are obviously careful not to reveal.