“Everything is harder.” Became popular thanks to its presentation of the game The weakest link on TF1, Laurence Boccolini left the first channel two years ago. Host of several shows on France 2, she took over in August 2021 following Nagui at the presentation of the show Everyone wants to take its place. While viewers had only known him in fifteen years of this show that has become emblematic, the bet was high for Laurence Boccolini. Nearly a year later, she takes stock of the Parisian.
If the audiences are now there, the arrival of the host has not been easy. “The beginnings were very hard to live with because nobody was really tender with me, nor with the show. It was very violent she acknowledges. The first week was not over and some were already saying that I was going to be replaced. Faced with this welcome, Laurence Boccolini became more aware of the treatment she was paying the price as a woman. “What was said about me and about me, we would never have done with a man, she says on a daily basis. Several animators have pointed this out to me.” After more than twenty years in television, the presenter is aware of the difficulty for women to find their place in this environment.
Laurence Boccolini’s “men’s job”
“Every time, I am given the loser”, assures the facilitator. Whether it’s the Weak linkof Money Drop or of Everyone wants to take its placeLaurence Boccolini never got much encouragement. When she arrived on TF1 in 2001, she was “one of the few” to host a prime time show on her own. Still today, few women are entitled to such positions. “Today, it remains a job for men, even if more and more sisters are arriving”she says to Parisian.