He was the host of the Right price for almost a decade. Philippe Risoli rose to fame on the small screen in the 1980s and 1990s, notably by hosting several TV games on TF1 from 1988 to 2001. The end of 14 years on the air of TF1. A page turned on which he confided in the pages of TV Star, published Monday September 18, 2023. The former host, who released an autobiographical book entitled Tell my son that I love him (ed. de l’Archipel), returns in more detail to the reasons for the end of his television career. The 70-year-old actor talks about this “mistake” which would have cost him his place. “When we unscrew, it means we have made a mistake, he estimated. I was a top 10 presenter and I disappeared. My only fault is never having maintained a network and I’m not dead! [Rires]” The end of a career is not easy to live with at first. “It saddened me”he conceded. But financially, the one who revived Fan School on Gulli in 2009 gets away with it. “I wasn’t caught by the throat either”he added.
“A collection of envious and embittered people”
A return to the air of Philippe Risoli, ex-candidate of The Celebrity Farm in 2005, is not impossible, but the chances are slim. “Whatever a possible channel proposal, I will ask myself if I want to do it, if I know how to do it and what it can bring me”he argued to TV Star. His current desire? Play a role in a television series. “The only thing I’ve never done is play a role in a series, admitted Philippe Risoli. Maybe I’ll never be offered it, but I’d enjoy it.” In an interview given to TV Star on June 13, 2022, the master of ceremonies for the election of Miss Excellence France was already talking about his televised retirement and his incomprehension. “At some level, the phone doesn’t stop overnight, he said. It rings less and you, who have never called, end up making a few calls, even if you don’t like to beg. Naively, I thought that professional qualities always won out in the end. But in this profession there are a bunch of envious and bitter people who will make your head go under water.” With his book, Philippe Risoli marks his comeback.