Currently promoting his latest book entitled The carnival of the ambitiousPatrick Sébastien explains on the back cover: “I set foot on my first cabaret stage on November 14, 1974, my twenty-first birthday. Fifty years in the business! Golden wedding? No. Metal is too precious for such a tumultuous marriage. Divorce ?No more. It’s too late. So, write to analyze. On the occasion of this release by XO editions, it has spoken out numerous times in the press. Latest interview to date? That granted to our colleagues from Ciné Télé Revue. He discusses many subjects including this “beauf” image that some French people may have of him.
Patrick Sébastien, a “beauf”?
In his book, the host mentions the fact “we all wear a mask when we want to succeed”, in the audiovisual industry. And to specify that it was, among other things, following this observation that he decided to call his book The carnival of the ambitious. “In public, we don’t particularly show who we are in life. And one of the tragedies of our society is that people judge by the mask and do not take the time to look at what is behind it.explained the one who “keep forever this label of big heavy franchouillard”. “I’m a prisoner of this image of a redneck who spins towels. But that doesn’t matter. I use it. I cultivate it and add more. I call it my selective sorting. If I have people in front of me who stop at the mask, I’m not going to waste time with it.” detailed Patrick Sébastien.
The host is not very tender with the “gaucho-wokists”
In this same interview, he also allowed himself some criticism of our society. For example ? He can’t stand “the intolerant gauchos-wokists”. He notably mentioned the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympic Games on July 26. “In form, it is magnificent. But fundamentally, it is the break between two Frances. There is a half that no longer exists. However, God knows that I have nothing against drag. I will putting on a show with transformists But there is an over-representation of certain categories.he explained.
Then continue: “Aya Nakamura doesn’t bother me, but there are plenty of other things that make up French heritage”. On his ouster from the France Télévisions group, Patrick Sébastien believes that he and his viewers were victims of class contempt. “The day I was fired from France 2, symbolically, we told 4 million people to go fuck themselves. And yet, ‘The biggest cabaret in the world’ is all that ‘there is more respectable’assured the one who considers swingers clubs to be one of the last spaces of freedom. Patrick Sébastien concluded: “JI like to find couples, libertine friends there, to talk in complete freedom. We can say anything and everyone respects the other. So tell me where is the vice and where is the virtue?.
