Did she know, by marrying him, that he would become one of the cult faces of French television? Not sure ! But Dany Saval never gave up Michael Drucker : faithful and eternal support, she was always present, whatever the hardships. A pillar that matters to the host, as he recently confided in the podcast At Jordan’s.
Calling her “holy“, he explained that she supported him at all times, although she would have liked to see him stop the TV sooner, to stop the “see stressed“. It must be said that Michel Drucker has been on the air since 1964 and that his hyperactivity at work ended up playing tricks on him: heart surgery at the end of 2020, he had come close to drama and had to take several months of rest.
A difficult moment which undoubtedly convinced him to go to France 3 at the start of the school year, where he will embody a different face. But surely not to stop television: at 80, he still hopes to be present next year for the Olympic Games, provoking the admiration of his colleagues, young and old. Thierry Ardisson, who has known him for several decades, had even been even more cash: “We know that Michel Drucker will die if he leaves the antenna“.
A strong couple who watch over each other
But Dany Saval watches over the grain on the health of her husband, to whom she already advised in January to resume one of his activities, his only stage that he has mounted since 2016.My wife thinks I’m masochistic“, he had explained to our colleagues from Gala. “She said to me: ‘After all that you have taken, do you need this fatigue and this stress?’ Stress, it was he who took me to the pool table“, assured the host. “And being alone on stage is the most terrifying exercise. But my anxieties have calmed down. What worse could happen to me?” he concluded, shortly after his operation.
It must be said that the couple has a long history: the former actress met her husband in 1972 thanks to a (very) famous mutual friend: Claude François! At the time, the singer hosts a program with Michel Drucker and introduces him to a young woman already married and divorced three times, mother of a little Stéfanie with Maurice Jarre. It was love at first sight between the two, who married shortly after in Las Vegas, where Dany Saval had married her previous companion.
Together, they will not have children: not feeling the need and knowing that his wife had been traumatized the first time by her difficult pregnancy, the host was content to raise little Stefanie, who became a decorator television sets. Later, they had also taken in an Indochinese teenager, Yleng.