In Fort Boyardif there is a character who marked the show, it is good The ball. For 20 years, he’s the comedian Yves Marchesseau who took on this particular role. From 1994 to 2013, his mission was to strike a gong using a mallet in order to start the game. Moreover, when the candidates failed to leave the cell before the end of the allotted time, he led them in the prisons of the fort. Without ever uttering a word and despite his gaze which was intended to be frightening, La Boule then returned to the hearts of the French. It was then truly overwhelming, both for the teams of Fort Boyard and for the public, when his death was announced in 2014. Yves Marchesseau was just 62 years old.
At the time, he had been suffering for a year esophageal cancer, which had been diagnosed as a result of heart problems. “Last November, I was at the table with my daughter Stéphanie when I had a stroke. I was rushed to the hospital and that’s wherewith a scanner, we detected my cancer of the’esophagushe had told France Sunday. To treat himself, the ex-jailer of France 2 then submitted to radio-chemotherapy sessions in Poitiers, which had made him lose 20 kilos.
On the other hand, the chemo will not have been right about his hair, and for good reason, Yves Marchesseau has never had any. As his daughter revealed during an interview on the microphone of France Bleu just after his death, his father was always a victim of alopecia: “My father has been bald since he was little. It is a birth problem that he has following an illness.“At the age of only 3 months, little Yves received poor drug treatment following an abscess that developed in his breast, which caused him to lose all the hair on his body.
Its difference, the unforgettable La Boule knew how to make it a strength and use it to make a name for itself. So for him, Fort Boyard “has been (his) revenge on a life that had started badly“.