For almost twenty years, Cyril Lignac has been the star of M6’s cooking shows. A success which was available in bookstores. Capital did the accounts and revealed the impressive sales figures for the presenter’s books. Everyone in the kitchen.
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Although he no longer has a star in the Michelin guide, his restaurant The fifteenth having closed in 2019, Cyril Lignac continues, despite everything, to shine. The M6 star chef’s business is still thriving. The figures announced by Capital in its May edition are head-turning: 7 restaurants, 1 bar, 7 bakeries-pastry shops-chocolate shops. THE “self-made man from Aveyron” no shortage of ideas. He conquered Paris where he opened a Japanese-inspired restaurant at the end of March, near Avenue Montaigne. But its success goes well beyond the capital. With its multiple shows like The Best Pastry Chef And Everyone in the kitchen, he conquered the stomach and the hearts of the French. A success that is available in bookstores.
Cyril Lignac has sold several million books thanks to Everyone in the kitchen on M6
His collection of recipe books Home made cardboard. “The seven volumes have sold around 2 million copies”reveals to Capital La Martinière, Cyril Lignac’s publisher. “The equivalent of five Goncourt prizes“specifies journalist Stéphane Barge, before revealing the “jackpot” touched thanks to this collection alone. According to the magazine’s calculations, this would correspond to 3 million euros. To which we should add the royalties received by Cyril Lignac for the forty works on which he also collaborated.
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Cyril Lignac: a collaboration with David and Cathy Guetta changed his destiny
Cyril Lignac entrusted this unexpected success story last January to Audrey Crespo-Mara in Seven to eight on TF1. “I come from nothing. (…) I wasn’t given anything except a very good education and a strong backbone”explained the famous chef. “Everything I had, I earned through the sweat of my brow, through difficulty, without anyone giving me a gift”added the one who arrived in Paris in 2000 at the age of 21. “I never gave up, I went home crying a few times but I told myself I would make it“, he confided. He did not yet know that his destiny would change with the management of David and Cathy Guetta’s restaurant in 2005. A few months later, he was spotted to become the star chef of Yes sir ! on M6. The beginning of his incredible destiny.
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