Known for his outspokenness, Patrick Sébastien has no taboo subjects. His divorce, the death of his son, his failures, the ex-host is not in the habit of avoiding sensitive subjects. In his latest work, called The Carnival of the Ambitious (Ed. Xo), he evokes 50 years of career. A half-century of triumph, debacle, encounters and lasting memories.
Patrick Sébastien distills the tasty and exciting ingredients of a philosophical reflection on ambition and in the process scratches Bernadette Chirac, whom he has worked with for a long time.
Bernadette Chirac: “brittle” and “authoritarian”?
In his book, Patrick Sébastien shares juicy anecdotes about celebrities. Close to Jacques Chirac for years, the ex-host of Sébastien, it's crazy! also knew Bernadette Chriac very well. And the least we can say is that the former first lady of France, now 91 years old, left him with not only good memories.
“She was always charming to me. Impeccable.
This was not always the case with others, especially small staff“, he wrote. According to him, the one who shared the life of the former President of the Republic knew how to be “brittle“ et
“authoritarian“. To support his remarks, Patrick Sébastien notably mentions the filming of a number of The Greatest Cabaret in the World, one of the shows that made him successful on the small screen from 1998 to 2019.
Bernadette Chirac: this shooting which turned into a nightmare…
Indeed, Patrick Sébastien claims that the wife of the late Jacques Chirac was unbearable during a filming of the show Le Plus grand cabaret du monde. While she had been named godmother of this special New Year's Eve program on December 31, Bernadette Chirac would have been undrinkable. “A dream for me, not far from a nightmare for those accompanying him. Picky, intractable, borderline contemptuous. Boring, what! It's not me who says it, it's those closest to his bodyguards”revealed the ex-presenter in his book.
The ex-companion of Marie Myriam ends with an anecdote about a bottle of sparkling water which would not have been at the right temperature in the eyes of Bernadette Chirac, the latter having had a reaction which would have made take a member of his close guard off his hinges. “Damn! I think his bottle of Perrier, I'm going to end up putting it in his...“he would have blurted out. Atmosphere !
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