Michel Drucker scared his loyal viewers in August 2020 : After being hospitalized with sepsis, the 78-year-old host had to undergo a triple coronary bypass surgery in September. An open heart operation that marked him a lot : “I kept my spirits up, but I had a very heavy operation. I was on the operating table for almost 8 hours, which is a long time, with even longer anesthesia. I was very well looked after “, he explained on RTL in November 2020. After months of rehabilitation in a private clinic, the star of France 2 is finally ready to make his comeback on television with a new number of his cult show Vivement dimanche, which will be broadcast on Sunday March 28, 2021. The filming of this new took place on Wednesday March 24, 2021, at the Gabriel studio, in the 8th arrondissement. Friday March 26, 2021, comedian Willy Rovelli posted the very first photo of Michel Drucker on the set, surrounded by his chroniclers. “He will bury us all! Sunday on France 2”, he wrote in the caption of this shot which greatly moved Internet users.
On Wednesday March 24, 2021, Michel Drucker made a very noticed first appearance during Julian Bugier’s 1pm newscast. “I’m fine, I’m on my feet, I just recorded the first part of the show. It’s a rebirth, I no longer believed in it “, he explained, live from the set. “When you’re plunged like that in a tunnel lasting several months, and after such a serious operation, you go through all the stages”, he also confided.
Michel Drucker refused to show his face
This passage on France 2 was an important milestone for Michel Drucker, who until then refused to show his face. Thursday March 4, 2021, he explained the reasons for this choice in the columns of the Parisian. “I don’t wanna appear diminished, that people say to themselves that I derailed. Those who do not know the business tell me that I come back too early. I’ll prove them wrong. I still have three weeks of rehabilitation to be on top “, he had confided. Michel Drucker put all the chances on his side to get there: in addition to his rehabilitation sessions and his healthy diet, the presenter obliges himself to an hour and a half of sport per day. A healthy lifestyle that ended up paying off.
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