Regrets… Saturday April 27, 2024, in the program entitled TV, your merciless universePatrice Laffont spoke about his career as a TV host. Numbers and letters, Fort Boyard, Pyramid, 40 degrees in the shade or Intercity are all programs that the host has carried throughout his career. A journey that allowed him to benefit from a generous salary. But now, the host did not choose to invest his money in order to perpetuate it. “I have earned my living very well and I am not complaining about it. I still have a weird relationship with money. Which is to say, I suck. I manage badly“, he admitted.
Result: one that readily resembles “a cicada“, as in the fable of La Fontaine, squandered his own fortune over the years.”I spent my money happily, I didn’t put anything aside and I regret it now. At my very advanced age, I have nothing, nothing, nothing. Not a house, not an apartment. The only thing I have in equity, basically, is my car, and even then it’s old.“However, the host believes that he has not had a tiring career:”I haven’t worked much, and I’m not a hard worker. It went like a long calm river and that’s good.”
A choice he regrets
But the subject of money played a determining role in his television career. Although he did not save or place his money in investments to make it grow, Patrice Laffont still continued it, even to the point of accepting a project that he did not really like. To his eyes, “the big mistake” of his life was to accept to animate The Fair Euroinspired by Right price. To do this, he left his very secure position in the program Pyramid, which worked very well. “It’s the only time the lure of gain made me react.” But now, the show was quickly canceled due to lack of audiences: “For three weeks, I filled my little pockets, but afterwards, I found myself with nothing“.