I moved the elephant. This is the title of Patrick Sébastien’s next book, to be published by XO editions. It is not, however, the only project of the one who for a long time enlivened the evenings of the French with his cabaret. Indeed, for this troublemaker of the small screen, the next few months promise to be busy. Patrick Sébastien, who now admits to preferring Netflix to TV, publishes a book is also about to unveil a new album of songs, the first title of which, entitled We unpin, will be released at the end of June 2020. From October, he takes over the theater with a tour, and in November, it's The World's Largest Cabaret who will tour in 30 Zeniths. Finally, he will play, at the end of August, in an episode of the series Camping Paradis, broadcast on TF1. “I have never looked better. I'm free", he assures. After his ouster from France Télévisions in 2019, the host seems to welcome this new period as a renaissance. To talk about all these new projects, he gave an interview to Yahoo put online Thursday, June 18, 2020 and in which he talks about his new life … But also in which he tells a surprising story about the host Jacques Martin and Nicolas Sarkozy.
How a joke by Philippe Bouvard relaxed the atmosphere
“Jacques Martin was married to a young woman named Cécilia, and the mayor of Neuilly, was Nicolas Sarkozy. It was Nicolas Sarkozy who married Jacques Martin and Cécilia in Neuilly. Except that, one day, Cécilia left with Sarkozy – the famous Cécilia ”, summarizes Patrick Sébastien before adding: "So Jacques Martin, it's not that he was not happy, it's worse than that." The host then remembers the anger of his colleague and the insults he uttered against Nicolas Sarkozy. "What a *** ***!", … you can't know! And we, we said nothing, we were there, we bowed our heads ”, remembers Patrick Sébastien. Far from calming down, Jacques Martin would have gone so far as to threaten Nicolas Sarkozy. “At one point, he said‘ But this bastard, I'm going to kill him! ’”, he swears. “And there [Philippe] Bouvard, very calmly, said: ‘You are not going to kill the mayor of your children.’ And we, it exploded us, because the sentence, it arrived in calm! The situation was dramatic, but the sentence was so beautiful! "You're not going to kill your children's mayor." These are great moments … "
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