20 years ago, on April 11, 2001, M6 launched the first reality TV show in France: Loft Story. A program adapted from the Dutch program Big brother which had almost never seen the light of day on terrestrial channels. However, when Loana, Laure, Steevy, Kenza and the others hit the small screens, it was a real television revolution. In which Benjamin Castaldi is very happy to have participated! The 51-year-old host, currently a columnist in Do not touch My TV on C8, is indeed also a pioneer in the history of French reality TV. On April 8, he will also offer on C8 a special evening to celebrate this very special anniversary and will be surrounded for the occasion by some of the “lofters”. But whoever revealed Loana now believes that he was not paid at his fair value at the time.
Benjamin Castaldi won 45,000 euros thanks to “Loft Story”
It is in an interview published on Friday April 2 in the columns of Close that Benjamin Castaldi, always very cash on money matters, spoke without taboo about the salary he had received to host the show. “On the first Loft, I won the equivalent of 45,000 euros”, he confided. “It’s a lot of money, of course, but given the power of the program, it was a mess. To give you an idea, that’s what I then won on TF1, but by prime time”. However, the one who subsequently animated New star and Secret Story don’t spit in the soup and claim that Loft Story was a good school: “Without the Loft, I could have gone on for years without finding the medium that finally catapults me. There, I had the chance to present an extraordinary format, to be live every day, seven days a week, with prime time every week for three months! It’s as if I had won ten years of television“. A very pretty way of looking at things!
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