Words that made him stronger. Thursday April 8, 2021, Jean-Luc Reichmann will be back in the series Léo Matteï, miners’ brigade sure TF1 for an eighth season. An appointment that is very close to his heart since the father of six children denounces the violence against children for eight years now. A few days after the release of Christian Quesada, indicted for “obtaining pedophile content” and “corruption of minors”, the animator of 12 midday shots confided in Telepoche, March 29, 2021, on these insults he must have received throughout his childhood. Painful and humiliating words that made him a man of iron morale.
“At first it’s a game and then it hurts”
“If Matteï was the first to put children first, it is first and foremost because he reflects my situation as a father of six children”, explained the companion of Nathalie Lecoultre. But that’s not the only reason. Indeed, if Jean-Luc Reichmann was so keen to give a voice to children in his TV series, it is also because he himself suffered a lot in his childhood. From an early age, in the playground, Jean-Luc Reichmann was attacked on his pink birthmark on his nose: “Between five and seven years old, I remember little spikes like:” Your mother wanted strawberries “,” Rap nose “etc. At the beginning, it’s a game and after that it hurts”, he confided.
However, the flagship host of TF1 never admitted defeat. With a mind of steel, and a strong bond with his disabled little sister, Jean-Luc Reichmann redoubled his efforts to find a place for himself. Still in the columns of Telepoche, the latter wanted to give hope to those who could face the same problem: “This difference, either it paralyzes you and makes you sink into an unbearable solitude, or you say to yourself: ‘Take advantage of it to make your difference”. A message of hope that he can translate on the small screen with Léo Matteï: “The more the years go by, the more this series resonates with my fights”.
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