Leave the humor to the comedians. After the controversy that arose a week earlier on the set of “Quelle Époque!” “, THE talk show which she presents every Saturday evening on France 2, Léa Salamé came to this conclusion on May 4: “The valves, 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.”
On April 27, while trying to play with humor, the journalist burned her fingers. Léa Salamé rewarded her guest, the comedian Artus, who explained that he had stopped drinking, with a scathing “you have become boring, what”. Neither one nor two, the passage went around the canvas. And who is to be indignant, and who is to support her in the “we really can’t say anything more” mode.
Alcohol in France, a substantive subject
To this day, the most incredulous person certainly remains the person concerned: “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,” defended the co-presenter of the France Inter morning show. It was only afterwards, she admits, that “this [l’a] makes think. And our team and we said that this posed a real question, that it opened a real social debate, a fundamental subject. » For a future show, perhaps? That of last Saturday devoted around ten minutes to it with emergency doctor Gérald Kierzek.
Still, Léa Salamé apologized. Admitting that the risks of drinking should not be trivialized, the presenter recalled that alcohol was a “scourge that wreaks havoc”. A position that she apparently has difficulty maintaining. In March, on France Inter, Gad Elmaleh explained to him that he had not drunk a drop for two years and seven months. Reaction of the journalist: “Isn’t the party any less beautiful? » The stand-up’s proposal to party “without alcohol, and with joy” did not excite her any more: “Yeah… no. » Final alcoholic twist: a few days ago, we learned that before each show, she gave herself a “dash of vodka”: “I shouldn’t say that, it’s not good. We remind you that alcohol is not good, but I need it, it relaxes me…” With positions like that, no wonder Léa Salamé’s speech on alcohol falters.
