He is officially the greatest champion of 12 noon shots. With nearly 200 participations and a prize pool approaching a million euros, Eric is the new (not so new) noon master of the program led by Jean-Luc Reichmann. And there is no end to winning! So much so that some viewers wonder when the candidate that Jean-Luc Reichmann likes to call “Fantastérix” will one day fail. In the meantime, he has just passed, on Saturday June 13, 2020, the biggest winner of the show: Christian Quesada. A winner who was later controversial, since he was sentenced on April 8 to three years in prison and five years of socio-judicial follow-up after his sentence after being found guilty "Of corruption of minors on four young girls, between April 1, 2017 and March 25, 2019, and of having detained but also disseminated child pornography images with the aggravating circumstance of the use of an electronic communications network." Obviously, the production of TF1 must be delighted to have found a new protege much less embarrassing in the person of Eric.
"I had this goal in mind"
So, how did Eric react when he discovered, at the end of this issue, who finally dethroned Christian Quesada? The main stakeholder confided in this subject during an interview with Current wife Tuesday June 2. Naturally, the new protégé of Jean-Luc Reichmann is delighted to have achieved his goal and to become the greatest noon master in terms of winnings and participations. “As soon as I passed the 100th issue, I had this goal in mind”, he told us. "I saw Paul in front of me and I said to myself" Why not? " Once I passed Paul, I was even more focused. I’ve worked a lot from home. At the beginning, my daughter Candice made me revise in the waiting rooms. She offered me a list of countries and I had to give the capitals, for example. I made lists in notebooks. Lists of musicians, writers, countries … Anything that could be Hit or Fatal. "
"You still had to have a certain level to get to where I am"
The big winner does not forget his little Achilles heels. "Having a good background in general knowledge is good, but you also have to deepen your weaknesses. I realized that in History, I was sometimes approximate ”, he concedes. To those who say that TF1 has propelled him to this level to make people forget the Christian Quesada affair, he replies: “I see some comments, even if I'm not on the networks. I still think you had to have a certain level to get to where I am! Sometimes I was lucky, but my journey is mainly the result of work and a curiosity of a lifetime. ” And to conclude: “I am extremely curious, I rake in all areas. So yes, it happened to be a bit lucky, but I only went red twice in the whole adventure! " As singer Taylor Swift would say, “The haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate…”
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