Instant Vintage: when Laurent Fontaine and Pascal Bataille confided in Télé Star in 1999

Since Thursday, September 8, 2022, Lawrence Fontaine and Pascal Bataille are back on the air C8, in order to present the most beautiful story of their emblematic show, Only the truth matters. “the ‘Curtain’ celebrates its 20th anniversary! At the beginning of the 2000’s, Only the truth matters ! brought together between 3 and 4 million people every Monday evening on TF1. For 5 years, hundreds of declarations of love or friendship, reunions, requests for forgiveness and thanks, have made a whole generation of French people laugh or cry. 20 years later, Pascal and Laurent offer to share with viewers the best sequences of their cult show!“, said the channel of the group Canal+ in his press release.

Before meeting with immense success thanks to this program on TF1, Pascal Battle and Laurent Fontaine cut their teeth on other programs on the first channel. They were notably columnists in the program How much does it cost ?before presenting their own date as a duo: There are no pictures!. It is precisely within the framework of the launch of this program that the two animators confided in the columns of TV Star in 1999. A real duo in the city as on the screen since they met in 1983Pascal Bataille and Laurent Fontaine did not envisage their respective careers without each other at the time.

Laurent Fontaine: “We are a real tandem of complementary friends”

“We fully assume the association of our images. Always giving the interview to two does not weigh on us. We remain convinced that we work better together than individually“, said Laurent Fontaine. “We are a real tandem of complementary friends, not a duo made for the antenna“, he had also added. “We chose each other as friends before working together. The viewers feel that we are not pretending complicity. When we send jokes, these are real gags of old friends who know each other by heart“, had explained Pascal Bataille.

A slideshow produced by Isabelle Minard-Borde

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