Last January, Cyril Hanouna was controversial after very virulent remarks against France Télévisions. The public group has decided to react by imposing strict instructions on all programs, as your magazine Closer reveals to you this Friday, February 3.
It is an attack that does not pass. A few weeks after the virulent remarks of Cyril Hanouna, France Télévisions has decided to react… radically. No more question of receiving familiar faces from the Bolloré sphere on set. “Any journalist or speaker working directly or indirectly for the Bolloré group [propriétaire de la chaîne C8 où officie l’animateur, mais aussi de Paris Match, du JDD, d’Europe 1, de Canal +, etc., ndlr] is now persona non grata of public service broadcasts“, reveals to us your magazine Closer – on newsstands this Friday, February 3. A strict and irrevocable instruction received by all the editors and producers of the group’s emblematic programs, such as It’s up to you, C in the air, C Policy Where It tonight. It remains to be seen whether the converse is also true and whether, consequently, the faces of France Télévisions are prohibited from going to Cyril Hanouna’s programs but also to the various media owned by Vincent Bolloré via Vivendi. One thing is certain : war is declared.
Definitely, Cyril Hanouna manages the feat of putting oneself on one’s back all other channels. His animosity towards TF1, the host of C8 has never hidden it. Thus, he does not hesitate for a single second when it comes to break sugar on the back of the competition – and even on his former proteges, like Camille Combal. And the same goes for M6 which, “after particularly denigrating remarks“against Karine Le Marchand, had announced to reserve the right “to initiate proceedings”. But what put the fire with powder with France Télévisions ? To understand it, you had to be in front of the 6 to 7 of Do not touch My TV last January 16. For more than five minutes, the host, highly paid for his shows and productions, launched into a diatribe against the public group and its funding. “I saw something that made me hallucinate! Do you know how much the State gives to France Télévisions and Radio France per year? Four billion!“, he let go then.
“It’s a shame” according to Cyril Hanouna
A sum that Cyril Hanouna would have preferred to see allocated to hospitals or National Education, For example. Especially since this sum comes from “of our money“.”This is our sorrel“, he insisted, before adding: “And we come to hit us when we have helped many more people. Let them count the programs that have helped people. On public service they did not help a person“, visibly omitting the annual editions of the Telethon and Sidaction for example. Cyril Hanouna therefore advocated the privatization of the public service. “It’s a shame“, concluded the one who benefited from it for five years as a public service host and who continues to receive money from the public service, since he is a shareholder of Banijay, which produces many programs for France Télévisions. A height.
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