The recurring columnist of Touche pas à mon poste on C8 has established itself over the years as an essential element of Cyril Hanouna’s show. Closer tells you more.
Raymond in TPMP: how old is he?
Raymond Aabou is 46 years old. He was born on February 25, 1976 in the town of Colombes, in the Hauts-de-Seine, in Ile-de-France.
Raymond in TPMP: what is his real name?
If viewers know and identify the columnist as Raymond from TPMP, that is not what he is called in reality. In an interview with TV Mag in June 2022, Raymond Aabou revealed that Raymond is his middle name. All his relatives call him by his first name which is Cyril. As for Aabou, it is his real last name. The columnist changed his name for TV needs at the request of Cyril Hanouna who did not want a second Cyril in TPMP. “It’s my middle name that Cyril made me adopt when we started working together on the radio. There couldn’t be two Cyrils on the same show.”, he told TV Mag. And to tell: “It does me a lot of good when people call me Cyril, it most often comes from people who are close to me and who really know me”. “In one day, I will be called 100 times Raymond and that lets me know that I am dealing with people who know me through television. Behind the scenes of ‘Touche pas à mon poste’, at apart from three or four people, everyone calls me Raymond.”
Raymond in TPMP: what is his salary?
Raymond Aabou himself revealed his salary on the air of Touche not at my post on October 13, 2022. He is the only columnist to have agreed to do it live that evening. He thus revealed winning from 2000 euros to 2500 euros each month on C8in addition to its delivery driver salary of around 2000 euros per month. And to specify to the penny his salary for the month of September 2022: “Last month, I received 3,188 euros. Gross, it’s a lot more, but afterwards, there are the taxes that come in behind”.
Raymond in TPMP: what is his job?
Passionate about football, Raymond Aabou could have made it his job. It integrates the Paris Saint-Germain training center at 17an adventure he pursued until the age of 24, alongside his delivery driver profession. He continues to do this job. in addition to that of columnist in Touche pas à mon poste, even if he does it less and less often. On TV Mag in June 2022, Raymond Aabou explains: “I measure how lucky I am to have two jobs and to be in ‘Don’t touch my job’. I continue deliveries because I feel like I have my feet on the ground and to be closer to people. Every day at 8 am, I have already shaken hands and talked to dozens of people. I deliver to bistros and restaurants, I interact with people from all walks of life and from all social levels. I don’t need the Internet to get information or Twitter to chat”.
Raymond in TPMP: what is his background?
In TV Mag, Raymond Aabou recounted the events that led him to make television, he who was not at all predestined there. While he is a delivery driver, he meets Cyril Hanouna, of whom he is a fan, through the producer Laurent Thibault, a mutual friend. The host, who then presents Chanuna in the morning on Virgin Radio offers him to intervene on the air taking on challenges on the street. Tested on the airwaves for a week, Raymond Aabou remained there for almost an entire season, from September 2011 to April 2012. Some time later, he makes his baptism of fire on television alongside Estelle Denis, in Don’t touch my sport, program produced by Cyril Hanouna and his box H2O. The program started in 2015 stops in 2016 for lack of audience. Cyril Hanouna then offered Raymond Aabou a place of occasional columnist in Touche pas à mon poste. six years later, appreciated for his outspokenness and his humanity, he returns almost daily to the set of TPMP. Elected “columnist of the year of Touche pas à mon poste” in June 2022, he now really contributes to the success of the show.
Raymond in TPMP on Instagram
On his Instagram account (@raymond_aabou), the TPMP columnist is followed by nearly 85,000 followers. He periodically publishes selfiesof the videos rants or heart strokes, vintage pictures of him but no family photos. Only one snapshot with his niece was shared.
Raymond in TPMP: is he in a relationship?
Raymond Aabou is not single. He shares the life of the mother of his children. He himself told it on the set of Cyril Hanouna on C8 in May 2022: “I am always with her. I will always be with her, she is the mother of my children”. Raymond Aabou has met his wife in 1976 “in kindergarden”. With humor and tenderness, he explained: “When I was little I wrote him letters. I wanted to kill his father”.
Raymond in TPMP: does he have children?
Raymond Aabou has two children, a boy named Tristan and a girl named Audrey. He paid tribute to them with tears in his eyes on the plateau of Touche not at my post 3 years ago, evoking in particular their brilliant studies.