Between Philippe Bouvard and Didier Bourdon, it’s a quarrel that has lasted for decades. And which is still very present… Even if over the years, the actor has put water in his wine. Especially recently, hearing that the legendary host was going through a complicated period. Forced to use a wheelchair, he experienced several health problems.
“I'm going as one can go when one enters one's 96th yearhe confided to RTL. I'm a little soft. You have to wish me a few more peaceful years.” But Philippe Bouvard's life changed a few years ago. “I am
went blind about 8 years agoone day when I was at the Monaco casino. Suddenly, the large chandelier I was under became completely black. It never regained its colors. Hearing has declined significantly, but there are devices that partially make up for the deficiencies.he clarified.
Didier Bourdon: “I hesitated to call him…”
“The fact of getting older – and getting older considerably, because beyond 95, it's still a small achievement anyway – well, that doesn't happen without handicap and without the fact that people look at you with another eye and hear you with another ear”he added to the radio.
A decline that affected Didier Bourdon. Even when he had a falling out with Philippe Bouvard, he thought about checking in on him.
“I hesitated to call him after hearing him on the radio. He’s really not in good shape”he explained to La Tribune Dimanche. Didier Bourdon, however, wants it “still in Bouvard”. The reason? An old story that was settled in court. “It’s not honest for a 55-year-old man, well established in the media, to blame us after two years at the Théâtre de Bouvard because we decided on our independence,” he rewound.
They had to pay “an astronomical sum” to Philippe Bouvard
“He rotted us, promised to make us miserable. At the time, we were known as the Five with Smaïn and Seymour Brussel. We began to perform in small venues and the four organizers took advantage of our notoriety, without informing us, to add, under the posters stuck in the streets: 'Seen at the Théâtre de Bouvard'. Which took the opportunity to sue us, considering its name and its broadcast used and usurped, remembered Didier Bourdon.
Then the courts ruled in his favor.”
We do not know exactly what the Unknowns were sentenced to. But according to Le Parisien, “the comedians had to compensate him”. They had to pay him
“an astronomical sum at the time for these young artists”. Decades later, the resentment is still alive. But Didier Bourdon is even more worried about the health of Philippe Bouvard, who has just celebrated his 96th birthday and has decided to retire from the airwaves.
