“A sympathetic jester”: what Nagui really thought of Jean-Luc Reichmann

“A 30-year-old friend. “ This is how Jean-Luc Reichmann presented Nagui on Instagram in the caption of a photo in which they posed together at the end of last August. One way to silence the rumors of disagreement that have been circulating about them for many years. Because, for about fifteen years, they were in head-on competition at noon. Nagui presented Everyone wants to take its place on France 2, a program resumed since last August by Laurence Boccolini, while opposite Jean-Reichmann was also a hit with Watch your step, then The 12 Coups de midi. A real surprise for the host of France 2 who had not seen the blow coming when they debuted together thirty years ago.

“Jean-Luc Reichmann was my driver in ‘May the best win!’, then voiceover on the program and on Don’t forget your toothbrush ‘. He was very good at imitations. Quite honestly, I had doubts about the long term and the feasibility of putting it on the air on a game. This is to say if I had flair… ”, had frankly recognized Nagui in an interview with Parisian in 2009. He had ” speak “ with Jean-Luc Reichmann to produce it, but it had stopped at the project stage. What did not prevent the actor of the series Victor Sauvage to have a huge career on TV. If he did not believe much in his chances of succeeding solo, Nagui greatly appreciated the one with whom he worked in the 1990s, in a good mood on the set of May the best win !. “They liked each other at that time, it was kidding all the time, there was a good atmosphere between them”, tells a former production manager of the show in René Chiche’s book Nagui, a TV child, published by Editions Mareuil on October 28th.

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He took it for “A sympathetic jester without stature”

“Nagui did not really take Jean-Luc seriously”, nevertheless adds this ex-collaborator. “He considered him rather an excellent actor, certainly not like a presenter in the making “, she reveals in the book. “He would often tell me that he was doing too much and that it would not come through in front of the camera. He took it for a good joker, a mood maker, a buffoon sympathetic without scale “, specifies in the book the former production manager. “I actually think thatmaybe he feared him a little, without wanting to say it, as if Reichmann could compete with him ”, analyzes this former colleague of Nagui.

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