If Jean-Pierre Foucault is a real monument of French television, despite his advanced age, he remains very up to date with regard to the latest trends. Very present on social networks, he shares the bottom of his thoughts with his most loyal admirers. But Thursday, July 6, 2023, on his Twitter account, he shared with his subscribers an event that plunged him into great sadness. In effect, the host announced the death of a member of his entourage that viewers know well : Gilles Amado. The director and producer at the helm of many major direct broadcasts for the channel TF1 like those of the July 14 parades, election nights, NRJ Music Awards or programs watched by many French people as Sacred Evening, Disney Parade, Stars 90, Without Doubt, Sky My Tuesday, is dead. The television producer had also participated in the broadcasts of Fort Boyard For France 2 but also The New Star broadcast on M6. Very moved, Jean-Pierre Foucault wrote on Twitter : “He had the look, the eye of the director. We owe him our most beautiful TV shows of the 80s/90s”.
“Thank you for these twenty years of complicity!”
The former presenter Who Wants to Be a Millionaire wanted to pay a last tribute to his colleague and friend in his message on Twitter Thursday, July 6, 2023: “Gilles Amado has left to join some of the artists he had sublimated, and who will give him a guard of honor in paradise. Thank you for these twenty years of complicity!”. Getting old is not easy, first because you see your friends being buried, but also because health no longer necessarily follows mental strength. If Jean-Pierre Foucault is still very modern, his advanced age reminds him of the cycle of life. Indeed, Tuesday, May 9, 2023, the host had revealed to our colleagues from Doctissimo that he had suffered a heart attack. Fortunately, after “5 to 6 days off”he had performed “three weeks of rehabilitation” and had been followed by a team of specialists who “have shown serious and constant attention”. Since then, the septuagenarian has been doing better and is already preparing for the next Miss France competition, organized on Saturday December 16, 2023, in Dijon.
He had the look, the director’s eye. We owe him our most beautiful TV shows of the 80s and 90s. Gilles Amado left to join some of the artists he had sublimated, and who will give him a guard of honor in paradise.
Thank you for these twenty years of complicity!— Jean-Pierre Foucault (@Foucault_JP) July 6, 2023