Tuesday June 21, 2022, Raymond Aabou gave an interview to TV Mag. During this one, the one who was elected columnist of the year for Touche pas à mon poste, on C8, revealed his real first name.
Delivery driver and leading figure in television, Raymond Aabou was elected columnist of the year for Do not touch My TVon C8. If the latter confides a lot in the show and does not hesitate to rant, his fans do not know his first name … Indeed, Raymond Aabou is actually called Cyril! In an interview given to TV Magazinehe revealed:It does me a world of good when people call me Cyril, it most often comes from people who are close to me and who really know me. In one day, people will call me 100 times Raymond and that lets me know that I am dealing with people who know me through television. Behind the scenes of Touche not at my post, apart from three or four people, everyone calls me Raymond.“
Referring to the origin of his stage name, Raymond Aabou confided: “It’s my middle name that Cyril made me adopt when we started working together on the radio. There couldn’t be two Cyrils on the same show.“Referring to his meeting with Cyril Hanouna, the columnist said:”We had a friend in common, producer Laurent Thibault, who worked with him when he left RTL to take over the morning show on Virgin Radio. We had started working together, I was doing challenges in the street for ‘Hanouna in the morning’. He had put me on trial for a week to prove myself and I had stayed almost the entire season, between September 2011 and April 2012.“
Raymond Aabou: “I measure how lucky I am”
During this interview, the columnist explained: “Slowly, I let go and learned to be less intimidated. I stopped preparing my subjects in advance because the show conductor often jumped out at the last moment, I was wasting my time. I measure how lucky I am to have two jobs and to be in Key not at my post“, before adding: “I continue the deliveries because I have the impression to keep the feet on the ground and to be closer to people. Every day at 8 am, I have already shaken hands and talked to dozens of people. I deliver to bistros and restaurants, I interact with people from all walks of life and from our social levels. I don’t need the Internet to get information or Twitter to chat.“
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