Michel Drucker back in “Vivement dimanche”: “I thought I could no longer do my job”: Femme Actuelle Le MAG


Loyal viewers of Roll on Sunday look forward to it. Michel Drucker is back to tv, Sunday 28 March 2021, at 3.10 p.m. An unexpected event for the essential figure of the PAF. Indeed, after having undergone a major operation of the heart due to endocarditis, the television host saw his life turn upside down. Faced with his health problems, the iconic presenter was convinced of it: his career was over. This is what he confided in the columns of the Parisian on the day of his return.

Fortunately, his superiors gave him hope. “News was the best drug: three days before my operation in September, I received a visit from the president of France Televisions, Delphine Ernotte Cunci, and number 2 Stéphane Sitbon-Gomez. I offered to find a replacement (Editor’s note: Maud Fontenoy), because I thought I couldn’t do my job anymore, that I would have consequences “, he says, before continuing: “My bosses assured me that I was expected. Then I only thought about my return. The nurses kept telling me Roll on Sunday! ”An encouragement that has borne fruit.

“I thought I would never come back”

These confidences echo his interview on the airwaves of RTL, Saturday March 27, 2021. Interviewed by Jade and Éric Dussart in We are remaking the TV, Michel Drucker returned to the recording of the next issue of Roll on Sunday, which took place at Studio Gabriel, Wednesday March 24, 2021: “I had thought about it a lot. I had been waiting for this for so long. I found it miraculous, I pinched myself to believe it because, objectively, I believed I would never come back. ” He also specified that, for the time being, no contract has been signed for the start of the 2021 school year. “It will be done very soon because I’m already preparing the back-to-school shows “, he nevertheless revealed.

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