This Monday, the TPMP team clashed around the performance of Stromae in the TF1 newscast. Gilles Verdez was alone against all, claiming that it was a “marketing operation”, enough to annoy Cyril Hanouna.
This Sunday, the singer Stromae, interviewed by Anne-Claire Coudray, was making her big media comeback by offering the French, in front of TF1’s television news, the live, and unexpected, revelation of a poignant new title from her latest album, which is scheduled for release in March. This performance which caused a sensation among most viewers as well as commentators, the newspaper Release saw it as a model of promotional communication and infotainment, a clever mix of information and entertainment – akin to Day-to-day. This position which denotes was commented on by the teams of Do not touch My TV this January 10 on the set of the C8 show. And while most of the columnists present this Monday evening could not explain such a point of view on the part of the daily, Gilles Verdez, often out of step with his colleagues, took up the facts for the arguments put forward by Release… And was rebuffed by Cyril Hanouna!
“A shame”
“It might be piss-cold but it’s a shame what happened. This man, this singer who returns to promote himself has taken one of the biggest JTs watched by millions of people hostage. It’s a huge promotional campaign. marketing operation organized by his team. It didn’t have nothing sincere. It seemed fake. I do not understand that Anne-Claire Coudray indulged in a complicity. For me everything was wrong “, released Gilles Verdez, immediately countered by the host of C8. “Stop for a minute! He’s a great guy too. Whatever, but what the fuck are you talking about. What is he talking about?”, he got angry before backing up his point.
“Viewers are not stupid”
“No, whatever. A marketing operation. But what are you talking about? When the artists come, they all do their promotion. There at least Stromae proposed something and he said ‘I’m going to sing, I’m going to do it’ and he at least had the guts to do what he did on the 8pm newscast You say anything! You know what, you’re like the assholes who say ‘TPMP is not the place for politicians‘. In fact you say the same thing. This is exactly the place!“, said Cyril Hanouna. “He pretends to bring us a surprise when there isn’t one”, insisted Gilles Verdez. But Cyril Hanouna was determined not to let this go: “But don’t say nonsense. Viewers aren’t stupid. They know very well that everything has been rehearsed, that’s okay. He’s not going to start singing like that.”
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