Star presenter of 12 midday shots on TF1, actor and creator of the series Léo Matteï, Miners’ Brigade, Jean-Luc Reichmann will be Monday, December 27, 2021 in a new episode of Josephine Guardian Angel. A return to the series for the 61-year-old presenter since he already gave the answer to Mimie Mathy in fiction many years ago. But viewers will be able to discover a thinner Jean-Luc Reichmann tonight and he reveals the sad reason.
The father of a large family plays Gabriel, a skating trainer who will try to help a teenager who is having some difficulties. A filming which was complicated for the host-actor because at that time, he was affected by the Covid which resulted in the film crews shifting everything. He explains to Leisure TV : “The production and the comedians were fantastic because they agreed to postpone it for three weeks. After the ordeal I had just gone through, I arrived with a lot of humility and deep emotions.“
A disease that can be seen on the screen because, fans of Jean-Luc Reichman will notice, he was physically marked by the coronavirus. He tells : “When we shot I had lost 7 kg due to illness. Suddenly, I float a bit in the hoodies and jackets that I wear.“It was in April 2021 that Nathalie’s husband fell ill, certainly contaminated by one of his children as he said at the time.
The Covid made him live “a little hell of 15 days“.”When you enter the tunnel, you don’t know how you are going to get out “, he had confided. Fortunately, now he is fully back on his feet. Following his experience of the Covid, Jean-Luc Reichmann had wanted to do prevention and had made it known that it was better to be vaccinated. “Je believe it is urgent for people who are not yet vaccinated – I am not in the age range [à l’époque la vaccination n’était pas ouverte à tous, ndlr] – that everyone is. I don’t wish on anyone what I’ve been through“, he had declared.