TF1 famous, this Friday in “Thank you Dorothée”, the career of the one who was the favorite animator of children for two decades.
He is a star that those under 20 cannot know. From 1973 to 1987, Dorothée was the queen of youth shows. Spotted by Jacqueline Joubert, Frédérique Hoschédé, his real name, is only 20 years old when the producer, then director of the ORTF youth unit, entrusts her orders from “Youth Wednesdays”. After a passage on TF1, the young woman finds herself on antenna 2 to animate “Dorothée and her friends” then “Récré A2”.
For ten years, she punctuated the daily life of the youngest alongside William Leymergie, Zabou Breitman, Charlotte Cady and his acolytes Jacky, Ariane, Corbier and Patrick Simpson-Jones. In parallel with television, Dorothée appears in the cinema in L’Amour on the run of François Truffaut and gives the reply to Michel Serrault and Philippe Noiret in Pile your Face . But it is truly thanks to the song that she was successful (Rox et Rouky, Modern ! The liar, That he is stupid, Little Ewoks, Long live the holidays, Hello Allô Monsieur the computer…). In 1981 and 1983, she sold more than 4 million records and, in 1985, she received the music victory for the best album for children. The following year, “Récré A2” won the Best Youth program 7 of gold.
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In 1987, Dorothée returned to TF1 with the “Club Dorothée” and it was the consecration. For ten years, the host Truste l’Ornene with 30 hours of broadcast per week or more than 1000 hours of broadcast per year. A real phenomenon, the program attracts an average of 6 million viewers every Wednesday. Surrounded by her four accomplices, Dorothée inscribes her name in the history of television by proposing every Wednesday live games, sketches but also content never seen in France such as manga (Dragon Ball , Nicky Larson ), cartoons (Inspector Gadget , Olive et Tom , Jeanne and Serge , Candy ) American series (Arnold et Willy , 21 Jump Street , Alert to Malibu ) and sitcoms (Hi muscular , First kisses , Honey and bees , Hélène and the boys ). In the middle of the golden age, the latter bring together up to 8 million viewers and allowed young actors (Guillaume Canet, Alexandra Lamy, Hélène de Fougerolles, Alice Taglioni, Ingrid Chauvin, Mathilde Seigner, Julie Gayet, Élodie Fontan, Laurent Lafitte) to make their debut there.
-20 million records sold
Dorothée also conciliates a singer career where; Again, she breaks all records: 20 million discs sold, 7 double gold records, 3 diamond discs, 100 clips, concerts in Paris, Tahiti and China and fifty-nine Bercy where she attracts more 700,000 spectators in total! The host takes advantage of her notoriety to raise awareness of a good cause. « The show allowed us to help others, without doing miserabilism either, it was very important to me »she says.
Although rare on television, Dorothée agreed to trace her career this Friday evening on TF1 in “Thank you Dorothée”. For almost four hours, the 71 -year -old host is entitled to an exceptional evening during which her former accomplices, actors from the Sitcoms Ab Productions (Hélène Rollès, Elsa Esnoult, Camille Raymond) and guests (Lorie, Amir, Julien Doré , Nolwenn Leroy, Roch Voisine) pay a beautiful tribute to this icon which marked an entire generation.