“The floodgates, I’ll stop, I’ll leave them to you“. Journalist Léa Salamé, presenter of the show “Quelle Époque” will not later launch into stand-up or one-woman shows. It must be said that her last “joke” was not at all funny. desired effect. We rewind.
Last Saturday April 27 on the set of the second part of the evening show on France 2, the actor and humorist Artus was invited. He confides that he has stopped smoking and especially drinking alcohol. It is there, in a humorous tone, that Léa Salamé responds: “You have become boring“. A reaction which almost instantly triggered a wave of indignation on social networks.
And so this Saturday, May 4, the one who hosts the program was obliged to explain herself. “The floodgates, I’ll stop, I’ll leave them to you. I don’t know how to do it, and when you don’t know how to do it, you don’t do it.”, smiles the journalist who is also present every morning on France Inter. Léa Salamé evokes a “valve” And “certainly not an apology for alcohol“.
She also says she has received many comments. “I received so many messages, there were so many reactions, between those who were shocked by my joke, those who were shocked by the extent of the reactions to this valve, like ‘definitely, we can’t do it anymore say nothing’. At first I was surprised because it was really a joke. We all felt it was a joke, Artus too. And in no way an apology for alcohol.”
A show that evokes the ravages of alcohol
After this bad buzz, the show decided to put out the fire by denouncing, through testimonies, the ravages of alcohol. “Afterwards, it made me think. And we said with our team that this posed a real question, that it opened a real social debate, a substantive subject”, evoking in particular Artus’ response last Saturday . “That’s very French! It’s funny because as soon as we say we’re stopping drinking, we become boring!“
Léa Salamé also clarified that the actor starring in “Un p’tit truc en plus” at the cinema had “not understood the controversy, because it was a joke”. Finally, the journalist stressed that alcohol is “a danger, a scourge that wreaks havoc” as well as a “immense suffering for those who are addicted.
