Hello, it’s us!, A gold family, The Wheel of Fortune, What an era!… Since the start of his career, Christophe Dechavanne has been at the helm of numerous successful shows. If the host can congratulate himself on having such success, his father will unfortunately not have had time to see all his accomplishments. And for good reason, he died at the age of 54. In order to pay tribute to him, the host slipped a few words about his disappearance into his autobiography, Without transition…, published by Flammarion. Sunday March 3, 2023, it was then that he was present to promote it on the set of Roll on Sundayon France 3, that Michel Drucker declared: “I found out about your parents!”. To which the main person responded with humor: “So I’m one of the rare guys whose parents you didn’t know then!”. While a photo of Christophe Dechavanne’s parents appeared on the screen, the 81-year-old host slipped: “Look how beautiful your parents were! Your dad, he looked like James Dean, he was a handsome guy!“.
Christophe Dechavanne: “This is the reason why I lost this handsome guy very early in my life”
At the start of the show, Michel Drucker announced that Christophe Dechavanne’s father “didn’t just drink water”. “He had a real problem. It’s an illness, that’s why I don’t mess around anymore. I’m a bit in the campaign now with that because people sometimes laugh and say: ‘Oh say, he has a good descent…’. You have to worry when someone has a breakdown because alcohol dependence is an illness and those who are in it have a little trouble getting out of it.“said the father of three children, before slipping: “That’s why I lost this handsome guy very early in my life. Pretty soon, too soon”. A statement that touched Michel Drucker’s heart, who responded: “He was 54 years old, a kid!“. Sunday February 18, 2024, in A Sunday in the countryside, on France 2, the 66-year-old host had already mentioned his father’s alcoholism. After explaining that it had been complicated for his mother, he added: “The rest is a bit sad, it’s a father who yells at me because my moped is in the wrong place. It’s a father who told me at 16: ‘I found a solution to my problems, I’m going to fuck up’, so I told him: ‘Well do it, but actually shut up'”.