It’s been over forty years that he hosts television shows. Currently, it is alongside Léa Salaméin the show What an era!, broadcast on France 2which viewers can watch the interventions of Christophe Dechavanne. Interviewed on Europe 1 on January 27, the former TF1 presenter told an astonishing anecdote. Indeed, he almost came to blows with the singer Johnny Hallyday (died in 2017). While the host Lenaïg Monnier spoke of this mishap, detailed in the autobiography by Christophe Dechavanne, That the title is Without transitionthe former presenter of Heaven, my Tuesday Told : “He said things, probably which made him angry and which had no reason to be.”specifying that the conflict originated in the singer’s jealousy about his wife Laeticia Hallyday.
Then he added: “As it was already a little hot, it had already started the evening, he sat at the table and said nasty things to me…. “’It’s really good what you’re doing right now,’ Johnny Hallyday would have told him. Affirmation to which Christophe Dechavanne responded “I’m not doing anything exactly”. He said to me: ‘I know, that’s why I’m telling you. You pay for your wickedness…” Christophe Dechavanne then left the table he was at, because the Taulier wanted to come to blows. The former TF1 host did not want to spoil the birthday of one of the guests of the evening. Then, he clarified that Johnny Hallyday had told him apologized a few months later. “He was a lovely guy actually. Adorable”he concluded.
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Although he has been working alongside Léa Salamé for several seasons, Christophe Dechavanne presented successful shows as Hello, it’s us Or Heaven my Tuesday during the 1990s on TF1. Interviewed by Ciné Télé Revuehe gave his impressions on the audiovisual landscape. “TV drives crazy, well some people, not me, since it’s all about money”.
In the article published on newsstands this January 25, we can read that the former TF1 presenter added: “It exacerbates everything. Today, it is not worse than before but it is always delicate in human relationships. Broadcasters, whoever they may be, do not have empathy and human warmth as their primary qualities, nor the recognition that a channel is made by men and women and that they must be considered.. A clear opinion on the world of television.
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