No one expected it: neither on the side of viewers, nor in the PAF (French audiovisual landscape, editor’s note)! This Friday, May 2, three days before the start of the shooting of the new season of Fort Boyard, M6 announced in a press release the arrival of Olivier Minne on his antenna at the start of the next school year: “Recognized animator and very appreciated by the general public, Olivier Minne joins the group to animate great entertainment on M6. (…) He comes to strengthen the team of the emblematic faces of the chain”. The departure of Olivier Minne from France 2 organized “in the greatest secrecy” this Sunday, May 4, the Parisian reveals that the M6 group contacted the animator of France 2 from the “beginning of the year”, at the same time as with Cyril Hanouna who will join the ranks of W9 at the same time. Olivier Minne would have signed his contract with the six “at the end of April in the greatest secrecy”, since people aware of this transfer counted on the fingers of the hand with M6. It was “the same morning” of the publication of the press release on Friday that the host warned France Télévisions. “He really didn’t give us time to make a counter offer,” a source of public service told our colleagues. We understand better the icy reaction of Alexia Laroche-Joubert, the CEO of the group that produces Fort Boyard. Olivier Minne was therefore determined not to let France Télévisions try to convince him to remain so. His decision was made and irrevocable, but why? To read also “it’s serious, what we say there”: Nicolas Bedos did not appreciate this daring joke of Paul de Saint-Sernin about him (video) Olivier Minne disappointed by France Télévisions and “touched” by the interest of M6 “is someone very emotional. He did not feel liked by management, who had declared war on white men over 50 years. Televisions), neither Stéphane Sitbon-Gomez (the director of the programs), nor Alexandra Redde-Amiel (the director of entertainment) never came to the fort? “, Denounces a relative of the host, who was also cooled by his replacement by Nagui in the program Le Club des invincibles a few months ago. This was one more element that weighed in the scale, which has already been ahead of France 2 since the departure of Laurent Ruquier, a party thwarted in 2023, pointing to a lack of consideration on the part of the management. According to Le Parisien, Olivier Minne felt like an “eternal supporting role that always passed after the stars, even if they were passing. We did not always respond to his SMS, and the new projects were systematically entrusted to others”. Despite the certainty of being on the air in the coming years with Fort Boyard but also everyone has his say produced by Nagui, the host preferred to trust the “exciting projects” proposed by competition. “It was affected to be considered by M6,” said one of his relatives.
