Saturday evening, Léa Salamé launched on France 2 the very first issue of her new show What an era!. For the occasion, the journalist received several different guests, including Jean-Luc Mélanchon, Laurence Ferrari, Jean-Paul Rouve and Cindy Bruna. She also welcomed on her set her former colleague fromWe are not in bed, Yann Moix. Come to defend his new book Paristhe writer was also asked to explain his recent shocking remarks in Time for the Pros on CNEWS. “Without provocation and in the first degree“, he assured to wish “the physical death of all of [sa] family, apart from [sa] Grandmother“.
Words that shocked Christophe Dechavannethe permanent guest of What an era! and the latter confronted him on the subject. “That we think something like that is super creepy, (…) and why say it on the TV?“, he asked her. And to continue: “Someone in your family who hears you may have a heart attack“. But Yann Moix did not budge.”There’s a great thing about wishing people dead, that’s not why it happens“, he underlined, confident that he had already wished the death of people in the metro as well.
Faced with the incomprehension of Christophe Dechavanne, Yann Moix then seriously listed the abuse he allegedly suffered during his childhood by his parents. “Is it normal to make your son eat feces? Lock him up in the forest for four hours at 3 a.m. in winter? To make him sleep on the balcony naked at 5 a.m. in November? Is it normal when he buys a book to burn it in front of him? Is it normal to give him an hour and a half of blows from an extension cord? Not feeding him for a week, slapping him every two hours? Want more examples?“, he dropped with annoyance to Christophe Dechavanne. And to conclude: “The union minimum is that I wish them dead and if that could happen in five minutes that would suit me even more“. Léa Salamé then subtly returned to the subject of Yann Moix’s book, thus relaxing the atmosphere.
It should be noted that for her premiere, Léa Salamé produced an audience card by bringing together 1.10 million viewers, i.e. a market share of 20.0% among women in charge of purchasing under the age of fifty. Last year, Laurent Ruquier attracted 709,000 viewers (11.5% audience share) ahead of the start ofWe are live.