In an interview with our colleagues from Public, Guillaume Genton gave many secrets about his private life. Without taboo, the columnist of Touche not at my post notably returned to his career, his relationship to money and his private driver.
Guillaume Genton says it all. The columnist of Do not touch My TV agreed to confide in length in an interview granted to Audience. The opportunity for him to look back on his adolescence. A difficult period but which allowed him to become the man he is today. “I was very reserved. I was overweight and was teased by my classmates. It isolated me. Being rejected at school is negative, but it forges a personality and a desire for revenge on life”said the Virgin Radio morning show host.
After making his radio debut at the age of 12 on Radio Laser in Rennes, Guillaume Genton decided to make his career in the media. Over the course of his career, he has thus taken on many hats: that of host, but also of columnist or even producer. In particular, in 2015 he founded GENTON Productions, a company producing documentaries, talk shows and entertainment… and subsequently, he created or co-created many other companies. “I quickly understood that I wanted to undertake, carry out projects, set up teams…. Editing for eight hours is less glamorous than being on a set, but just as fulfilling. Today, I have seven companies, with a hundred employees”the 31-year-old producer revealed to Public.
Guillaume Genton: “I was banging so hard that my electricity was cut off”
His many activities allowed Guillaume Genton to earn a lot of money quickly, even if it all went to his head. “When I arrived in Paris, I lived in 6 square meters and I earned 480€ per month. I had 2€ a day to eat: I just ate a double cheese at McDo. I know the value of money. But when I started earning money, I spent it all, even more. At 20, I was banging so much that they cut off my electricity”, he continued. In an interview with Technikart in September 2022? Guillaume Genton had also indicated that he spent “several tens of thousands of euros per month”. What cause a wave of indignation on social networks. With our colleagues from Public, the host of Virgin Radio agreed to come back to this controversy: “When you earn minimum wage while you work hard and someone says they earn 20 or 100 times more, it generates frustration. Money divides our society. When you earn a lot of it, you have to spend it well, redistribute it and have the decency not to brag about it on social media.”
Guillaume Genton: “I gave up driving after missing the license three times”
While it is difficult to have a precise idea of Guillaume Genton’s fortune, we do know that he rents a very nice apartment with a view of the Eiffel Tower and that he also owns a house. “next to Paris”. And as he had already revealed, he also owns a very nice car: a Porsche Cayenne. A vehicle that he does not drive, however, because he does not have a license. “I’m lucky to have a right arm driving my car. I’m a danger on the road. I don’t understand which way to turn the steering wheel! I gave up driving after failing my license three times., reported the columnist. Well in his sneakers, Guillaume Genton seems today to crunch life to the fullest.