A journalist of Belarusian origin, Claire has worked at Purepeople since 2019. An unconditional fan of the Sex And The City series, she also knows most of the RnB sounds of the 90s and 2000s by heart. Blue flower and eternal romantic, she is interested in everything particularly to the love lives of stars.
Present at the big evening “Les 30 ans du Sidaction” (broadcast on France 2), Christophe Dechavanne revealed that he had taken medication for a long time, now banned in France, which caused him a very debilitating disorder on a daily basis. Symptoms which today make him look like a “goldfish”.
“Stuff banned today”: Christophe Dechavanne, these medications which are the cause of a disorder
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Interviewed by Paris MatchChristophe Dechavanne spoke about his early career on television in the 1980s. Having started in 1983 on the small screen by hosting the game Great challenge broadcast before the 8 p.m. news on TF1, the 66-year-old presenter took the reins of the show It’s even better in the afternoon on Antenne 2 two years later from 1985.
If he himself jokes about his faculties”goldfish“, he explained that this memory disorder comes from the consumption of drugs now banned in France. Sleeping pills that the host took for a period and which, according to him, completely ruined his memory. He confided to our colleagues : “I started taking it when I started on TV, things that are banned today. Sometimes I find myself in a room and wonder what I’m doing there…“
Christophe Dechavanne has everything planned for his funeral
Rather pessimistic about his health, he thinks he has “not even twenty years to live“.”On my deathbed, I will say that notoriety was the most complicated thing to experience. I wore wigs to go to the cinema” he revealed. Referring to his son Paul-Henri (born in 1990 and with whom he no longer has contact) and his daughters Ninon (born in 1998) and Pauline (born in 1987), he said with humor Spicy : “I don’t want to bother my children with this, they already have the address where to drop off the package. I will be buried in Montmartre, I have dug three floors and I will be with the women of my childhood, my mother and my sister.”
The memory he would like to leave with his audience
“No one will say anything about me, I don’t have the aura of great artists… I’m a TV host. I think we’ll rebroadcast Génération Dechavanne the day I die and that’s it…. I will be delighted to be remembered as the guy who had 80 million condoms made and who managed, with the help of the Macron couple, to make condoms free until the age of 26. Get covered!”, he continued.
Sidekick of Léa Salamé since the start of the 2022 school year on the show What an era! he has also presented since that same year The storms of life, replacing Stéphane Pauwels, on the Belgian channel RTL-TVI. He has just released an autobiographical work called Without transition published by Flammarion.
“Dechavanne tells his story and reveals, without transition, moments of life and unknown facets of his journey, from his epic youth in Montmartre to the set of Quelle époque!, without forgetting It’s even better in the afternoon, Heaven, my Tuesday! Hello, it’s us! And all the rest…” indicates the book on its cover. The opportunity to discover all the facets and secrets of Christophe Dechavanne.
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