A candidate who is part of the legends of 12 shots of noon. At the age of 21, Emilien, who was originally a history degree student in Toulouse, is making his mark in the history of the game show presented by Jean-Luc Reichmann on TF1. Since his first participation in the show, Monday September 25, 2023, the young man has eliminated all the competitors who tried to recover his place. During the daily news on Friday April 26, 2024, the presenter explained in particular that the student “raises the common kitty” spectacularly. “I find it crazy, crazy what’s happening. It’s even starting to escape us”assured Jean-Luc Reichmann. “We even talk about it with senior management at TF1, we say to ourselves: ‘When is this going to stop?’“, confessed the husband of Nathalie Lecoultre.
Very close to the big record
The young Emilien is on the right track to dethrone Bruno Hourcade, a former participant of the 12 shots of noon who holds the world record for individual victories in a game show, with 252 participations. The thirty-year-old then won a prize pool of 1,026,107 euros after his elimination in October 2021. During an interview with Here is published Monday April 15, 2024, the former champion admitted that he was annoyed at the idea of giving up his title. “On the one hand for my ego, I think that it actually bothers me a little bit because it’s cool to say to yourself: ‘I have the world record, I’m number one’“he explained, before qualifying: “Records are made to be broken no matter what.”.
The former participant of the game presented by Jean-Luc Reichmann did not think he was saying that well. Currently, Emilien’s prize pool is 952,744 euros in winnings and gifts. The facilitator of 12 shots of noon also specified on Friday April 26, 2024, that the candidate had “raises the common kitty to 1,204,700 euros”. The former champion’s record is very close to being broken. The 21-year-old young man has also scored two “masterstrokes” in a row. During his last two participations in the game show, he proposed two names for the Mysterious Star of May 2024 and pocketed 30,000 euros in two days. Quite a track record.