“It’s huge and too heavy”, Yann Barthès confides as rarely on the weight of his celebrity

Rare are the confidences of Yann Barthes, who tries as much as possible to keep part of his life discreet. Difficult indeed for this Savoyard to live under a permanent media coverage which exceeds the skylight of television, to the point of having perhaps even become, in his own opinion, a little agoraphobic.

Yann Barthès “at the time if I had known, I might have thought a little more”

At the microphone of Eric Dussart and Jade on RTL in the show “We redo the TV”, Yann Barthes confided in the weight of fame on his life, and its consequences. “If there was a way to do this job without being known, I would do it” he admitted to the two journalists, indicating that when he started on the air he was unaware of the consequences of this media coverage “If I had known, I might have thought a little more”, continued Yann Barthès “It’s huge and it’s too much, it’s too heavy, people are absolutely not unpleasant, that’s not what I’m saying, but it’s very heavy, you have to think about it all the time, and after a while it may have made me agoraphobic“he confided.

While it is true that society has changed a great deal in ten years, Yann Barthes also rose through the ranks of stardom which led to him being both loved and hated by those that Eric Dussart called “the anti-Quotidien”. “During the Petit Journal it was very benevolent, on Quotidien people are also 99% benevolent”, continued the journalist, “except that we have a society that has changed and there are people who are ready to punch you in the face, especially lately, it has become more complicated.” More fear than before, especially as indicated by Yann Barthes “there is a one in ten chance or bad luck of running into someone who thinks you are a sellout”. Asked by Eric Dussart about his way out of this situation, Yann Barthes replied that he had taken up Thai boxing, even if he remains moreover rather pacifist and takes the tangent more than he goes up to the clash.