Five months after his second heart operation, at almost 81 years old, the indestructible Michel Drucker returned to France 3 on Sunday for the 25ᵉ season of “Vivement dimanche”, interrupted for several months because of the serious health problems of its host. “Your welcome goes to my heart, a heart that beats a little faster today because I’ve been waiting for this for so long,” smiled Michel Drucker, raising his fists, to the applause of the audience of the show, recorded August 22. “My bosses didn’t let me down, and that’s good because there were times when I wondered if I was ever going to see this beautiful set that I love so much again,” he said. .
Always in the same elegant pose on his red sofa, slimmed down, with cautious gestures, Michel Drucker welcomed a host of comedians he knows well, from Laurent Gerra to Anne Roumanoff and Michèle Bernier. Throughout the show, the comedians have kindly chambered him about his health. “Kerdru is about longevity… He’s not a human, he’s a cyborg: every night he’s on the charger, and in the morning he blinks”, launched Laurent Gerra, imitating Fabrice Luchini. “I was scared, I had big doubts … I almost bought the sofa,” laughed Michèle Bernier. “Michel Drucker, the invincible”, added Anne Roumanoff. “If you die, I manage the burial”, challenged Mathieu Madénian.
59th season on TV
“You know that we make up the dead?”. “Why do you think my makeup artist is here all the time?” retorted Michel Drucker. After the recording, says the newspaper Le Parisien, Michel Drucker was tired, but relieved to have succeeded in his return for his 59ᵉ season on television. “It’s better now”, “I can hold out for two hours without a drop in speed. My great anxiety was not being able to walk normally and having a neurological deficit given the hours of anesthesia that I I had in two and a half years. I was afraid of losing my liveliness, my dexterity, this ping-pong with the comedians”, he confided to the daily.
His doctors were also on the alert. “They let me resume, but wanted to make sure it wasn’t a heat wave on set. And my surgeon called me backstage!”, he confided.