Guest at the microphone of Media culture this Thursday, January 9, Vincent Lagaf looked back on his beginnings as a host in the game Gold on callbroadcast on TF1.
Thursday January 2, Vincent Lagaf returned to the presentation of bigdil on RMC Story, almost 20 years after it stopped on TF1. For its big comeback, the cult game brought together 1.8 million viewers on average, allowing TNT channel 23 to achieve a historic audience record. A week after this success, Vincent Lagaf was the guest of Thomas Isle in Media culture on Europe 1, this Thursday January 9. The host looked back on his beginnings on television and remembered his two years spent at the helm of Gold on call on TF1 in 1996 and 1997. “We had between 5 and 6 million viewers every evening. We were live and there was a lot, a lot of money to be won”he explained.
“I hit the lottery every day” : Vincent Lagaf tells how the success of the game Gold at the call changed it
Vincent Lagaf met his first success as a host thanks to Gold at the calla game in which several candidates competed in tests to reveal a telephone number that viewers could call to win 10,000 francs. Overnight, Vincent Lagaf, who was a comedian, became one of the public’s most popular presenters and saw his standard of living increase as a result. What to do to him “to go crazy”as he told Europe 1. “For 30 years, I didn’t win a dime and one day, I hit the lottery in L’Or every day, so I went a little crazy. Ease means that sometimes you take yourself for what you are not”he admitted. “So much so that you don’t get up some mornings to go on set?”Thomas Isle asked him. “No, I have always been exemplary professional, I have always arrived on time, my text is understood, and I have always respected those who made me work”he replied.
Vincent Lagaf incurred the wrath of the general director of TF1 by leaving Gold calls before the end of his contract
At the time, however, Vincent Lagaf had threatened to leave Gold at the call after a falling out with producer Gérard Louvin. “I got angry with Gérard, who had an unfortunate comment in the press and which the press was quick to transform, distort and amplify. I said to Gérard: ‘Since you think that, you know what? You’re right, I’ll stop!’ I stopped on Friday and didn’t come on Monday.”he said. But the host attracted the wrath of Patrick Le Lay, former general director of the channel. “Patrick Le Lay called me saying: ‘You get angry with Gérard, that’s one thing, but you have a 3-year contract and you’ve only done one year. So what do we do? Do you know how much a show costs every day? You owe me so much!’“he remembered. Faced with the anger of the director of TF1, Vincent Lagaf had no other choice but to return to his post.
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