Alexia Laroche-Joubert is the high priestess of television production. At 51, she has knew how to captivate the French in front of reality TV. Known to be the first director of the star Academy or the producer of successful shows such as Fort Boyard or Koh Lanta, the one who also worked as a columnist with Cyril Hanouna in Do not touch My TV first scratched his teeth in a program aired on M6 at the beginning of the 2000’s : Loft Story. Sunday March 28, 2021, our colleagues from Parisian draw a portrait “of one of the most powerful women on television“. In this context, it does not hesitate to return to its success thanks to one of the first French reality TV shows. And if this bet has paid off, it is because it has kindly get your hands dirty. “Nobody wanted to work on it“she concedes, moreover.
Alexia Laroche-Joubert: “It might sound crazy, but I like to deal with shit “
Alexia Laroche-Joubert, proud of her career, does not regret her work in the “Loft”. The latter keeps in mind the event that made the show take off : the love scene between Loana and Jean-Edouard. “I produce shows that I love. The Loft is one of them. I experienced it in the first degree, without any irony. When Loana and Jean-Edouard made love in the pool, I first wondered how we were going to clean the pool“She remembers. For her part, Angela Lorente, the casting manager at the time, now has some reservations.”We didn’t want to broadcast this sequence, but everything was broadcast live on the Internet. Everyone had heard of it, we had to show the pictures“She admits. A delicate situation that the ex-wife of Ian-Philippe Blanc, who died in a road accident, was able to manage with care. Because the more complicated the case, the more the famous television woman, who is at the head of the company Adventure Line Productions, knows how to bounce back. “It may sound crazy, but I like to deal with shitshe concludes. A life mantra that paid off.
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