Nikos Aliagas could not hold back his tears in front of images of his father unearthed by Aurélie Casse in C the weeklythis Saturday, January 11. Died in 2017, Andreas Aliagas passed on great values to his son.
He is one of the most famous PAF presenters. For more than 20 years, Nikos Aliagas has punctuated our television year. At the helm of the Star Academyof The Voice but also other occasional broadcasts on TF1, it never stops. This Saturday January 11, he was invited on France 5 in C the weekly. Aurélie Casse surprised him by showing him archive images from Greek television. The sequence dates from 2003. A special program was then dedicated to Nikos and his father came. “Nikos has a problem, I never told him I love you. I love him more than anything and I’m proud of him.” Andreas Aliagas then confided to his son, live on television. 22 years later, and although he died in 2017, Nikos still cries to see his father give himself away like this. It took a few seconds for the tears to pass.
Nikos Aliagas’ father came to France to build a better life
Nikos then wanted to tell part of the story of his father and his arrival in France. “Sometimes I say to myself: if this boy had not left his country with a small suitcase to arrive at the Gare de Lyon with nothing, to start his life again because he is a child of the civil war, the dictatorship… He sleeps on a bench the first night. He wanted a better life, he taught us to love France viscerally, but also not to forget our roots. You can do both, one doesn’t preclude the other. And I owe him a lot.” Nikos now divides his life between television sets in France, his family in Greece, where his wife is also from.
-Nikos Aliagas is convinced that his father continues to guide him
On his deceased father, Nikos Aliagas said: “I miss him. But hey, that’s the order of things. When you lose a parent, it’s difficult but you have your children, you look them in the eyes. We try to be better. It’s not a win every day. I miss him but at the same time he is in me, like a little voice, like a conscience, like a protective look. And when there are times when we’re a little knocked out, we say to ourselves: ‘What should I do? Should I go right or left?’ There’s his look that says: ‘It doesn’t matter, but do it right!'”
Article written in collaboration with 6Médias
