In May do what you please … but not on RTL. After Jacques Pradel or the duo Sidonie Bonnec / Thomas Hugues, Stéphane Bern will leave RTL back to school, management announced in a statement. "After twenty years spent animating every morning a live broadcast and in public, Stéphane Bern wanted to find another formula that could not find its place in the RTL grid". A wave of departures which is not due to the coronavirus epidemic but to a "normal renewal", said the program director of RTL, Gauthier Hourcade. "We agreed with him that the show had run out of steam after nine seasons. It's very difficult to renew", he said in The Parisian.
"He thought he was protected"
If, at the outset, Stéphane Bern and his director seemed to have made this decision together, their agreement would quickly have ended. Indeed, according to the newspaper, the friend of the crowned heads would have decided to join the drafting ofEurope 1 to animate the Wild Fitted alongside by Mathieu Noël. A program broadcast at the same time as The Big Heads, flagship program of RTL. "The truth is that Stéphane Bern rested on his laurels because he thought he was protected, like in the days of former boss Christopher Baldelli ", said "a laying of RTL" at Parisian. According to the same source, the new director of programsRTL would not have been "impressed by the proximity of the facilitator with the Macron couple". Behind the scenes, the management ofRTL would look for a new animator for his niche 11h-12h30. Several names have been blown, like that of Bruno Guillon or Camille Combal, who recently announced that he would quit the morning of Virgin Radio. Contacted by The Parisian, the latter denied this rumor.
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