Monday September 12, 2022, Cyril Hanouna was at the helm of a new issue of Do not touch My TV on C8. Surrounded by his columnists, he returned to the subjects that made the news, but not only. During a sequence, the team was invited to say what was on their hearts to Matthieu Delormeau. The opportunity for Gilles Verdez to make sad revelations.
“I’ve been waiting for this moment for months“, first told Gilles Verdez. And Fatou’s husband revealed that there had been tensions between Matthieu Delormeau and him for months. “We don’t talk to each other anymore, we don’t even say hello to each other anymore“, he launched to everyone’s surprise. Cyril Hanouna thought that this sequence was going to be an opportunity to laugh a little, but he quickly understood that his columnist was very serious. The latter also continued: “We have a strong ‘resentment’ for each otherin any case I have one and I think it is shared, since last year’s controversy over racism and homophobia. I completely cut ties with Matthieu, I don’t talk to him anymore (…). I don’t avoid him in the dressing room, but I look him in the eye then turn away.“
Matthieu Delormeau of marble
Gilles Verdez was in the perspective of burying the hatchet, it is for this reason that he took the first step. “You were very violent, you hurt me, but me too, no doubt. (…) I want to start again on a good basis“, he said with regret. It was then that Matthieu Delormeau broke the silence. “I don’t usually hold a grudge, but there (…) I had been waiting for Gilles for six months, in the absence of excuses at least regrets, nothing happened. However, he knows very well the reason for our estrangement. She is very violent. I never understood that for six months he did not have the delicacy, at least behind the scenes, to come and apologize or express regrets. Until there is reparation, there will be no forgiveness“, said the 48-year-old columnist. But his rival having stressed that he did not regret his words, a reconciliation seems impossible.
Their estrangement dates from May 18. The team of TPMP was invited to react to footballer Idrissa Gueye’s refusal to wear a rainbow jersey to support the LGBT+ cause and fight homophobia. And Gilles Verdez had supported the athlete, a shock for Matthieu Delormeau. The two columnists had then had lively exchanges. The former NRJ12 employee went so far as to insult his colleague before leaving the set furious. Very touched, he had been absent from the show for several days.