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“I miss him”, the host on the verge of tears when talking about his late father

Guest of C l’hebdo on 5, Nikos Aliagas struggled to contain his tears at the mention of his father Andreas, who died seven years ago. Facing Aurélie Casse, the host paid a beautiful tribute to the one to whom he owes “a lot”.

For the first issue of C the weekly of 2025, Aurélie Casse saw the big picture by welcoming a host of guests on her set, starting with the former robber François Troukens. The former BFMTV journalist also had the pleasure of welcoming the president of Leclerc, Michel-Edouard Leclerc, the presenter Gilles Bouleau, the lawyer Benoît David, the ex-robber François Troukens, the RTL journalist Plana Radenovic, beauty queen Eve Gilles and Angélique Angarni-Filopon, in turmoil since her refusal to answer a question on Charlie Hebdo.

Nikos Aliagas, who will be in charge of the next season of The Voicewas also among the guests of C l’hedbo broadcast on Saturday January 11 on France 5. The opportunity for the host of the Star Academy to honor the memory of his father Andreas, who died in May 2017 following an illness.

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Nikos Aliagas can’t hold back his tears when he remembers his dad who died seven years ago

During the show, Nikos Aliagas struggled to contain his tears after an excerpt from a Greek show from the early 2000s in which his father came to tell him how proud he was of his career. “You know sometimes I say to myself: ‘If this boy had not left his country with a small suitcase and arrived at the Gare de with nothing, nothing’… He is a child of war, of civil war, of dictatorship. And he comes here, he’s a kid and he has nothing. He sleeps on a bench the first evening at Lyon station.he first confided.

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You can’t imagine the number of times when I pass by the Gare de Lyon, when I look at this bench: ‘I say phew, it’s thanks to you, Mr. Bench, that I’m here.’ Because 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 so I miss him. But hey, it’s in the order of things.”

Nikos Aliagas: “He is in me like a little voice, like a conscience, like a protective look”

Despite his death in May 2017, Nikos Aliagas said his father is with him constantly “like a little voice”. “When you lose a parent, it’s difficult but you have your children, you look them in the eyes. We try, first we forgave our parents for everything we thought was serious when it was just “He did what he could, like our parents did”. And we try to be better. It’s not easy every day, I miss him.”

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“But at the same time he is in me, he is in me like a little voice, like a conscience, like a protective look. And when there are moments when we are a little knocked out, we say to ourselves: ‘What should I do? Should I go right or left?’ Well you have his look like that which says ‘It doesn’t matter, but do it well’.

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