HASTF1 star presenter for decades, Jean-Pierre Foucault was invited on Europe 1 opposite Didier Barbelivien during the show Tell me what you sing. Throughout the fifty minutes of interview, punctuated between music and confessions, they returned to the imposing career of the presenter, who confides to having been “so spoiled”, as reported Le Figaro. At first, Jean-Pierre Foucault evokes the glory that his position brought him, which he takes for “cash money, because that’s why he does this job”, but he puts it into perspective by recalling the need “not to take the big head”.
He admits, however, that his beginnings were not as glorious and that he lived on “meager fees”. He does not hide his success over the years, on the contrary he lives it very well. “I can’t stand artists who fight for success and who look away when stopped in the street. It’s absurd, we work for that, ”he says. Today, after five decades in the media, he does not regret the step back he has taken. “I almost stopped watching television. The desire has left me and life is good, because when I watch television, I don’t tell myself that I want to be there. »
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After hosting the cult show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire for almost twenty years, between 2000 and 2019, Jean-Pierre Foucault admits that stopping presenting it allowed him to distance himself in “this era where we are invaded by doubt, in the age of modern technology of the hearing”.
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Jean-Pierre Foucault has not disappeared from the media, however, the host from the south of France continues to ensure the Miss France competition, thus defying new controversies each year. “I always look forward to the beauty pageant detractors. I expect them from November 15th. »