She is an essential face of one of the oldest TV shows on France 2, Cendrine Dominguez co-hosted Fort Boyard from 1993 to 2002. Alongside Patrice Laffont for seven seasons, she formed one of the most emblematic duos of the paf. Last spring, the pair reunited for a special issue on the occasion 35 years of the adventure program of both.
“We filmed on May 21. We met in July for lunch and he died at the beginning of August”said the host and producer on the set of Chez Jordan De Luxe on C8 this Thursday, October 17. With tenderness, Cendrine Dominguez then remembered her stormy collaboration with the star host of France Télévisions.
Cendrine Dominguez cash on her relationship with Patrice Laffont
Faced with Jordan De Luxe, the one who hosts the show Téva Déco admitted to having experienced some tensions at the start of his collaboration with Patrice Laffont in the fort. “He immediately told me: ‘You stay there in your corner, you co-host’.
I told him: ‘I’m not a model’. And we had a bit of a fight“she revealed.
“He pushed me away all the time so that I wouldn’t be too close to him. Patrice was a character. He had created his character and he didn’t really want to share the spotlight with anyone else”she clarified, adding that she had had a muscular exchange behind the scenes with his ex-companion to establish himself on the show. She will eventually find her place and demonstrate “connivance” and of
“complicity” with Patrice Laffont.
Cendrine Dominguez looks back on the “intimate” funeral of Patrice Laffont
Cendrine Dominguez spoke about the funeral of Patrice Laffont, who died of cardiac arrest on August 7. “There have been some very beautiful tributes. It was a very intimate funeral and at the same time, we all wanted to hold each other together.“she confided. On August 23, the host was part of the restricted circle of people invited to the Père-Lachaise cemetery in Paris for a final farewell to the presenter of Pyramide in the presence of his children.
“I say to myself every day: ‘how lucky I was to know someone who had such a personality, such a strong character’. He was a bad loser. He shouted, he yelled. He was in a bad mood sometimes but It didn’t last. And besides that, he was an ultra-generous guy…”she said about the ex-host, who died at the age of 84.
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