At the end of December, while TF1 devoted a special program to Arthur to celebrate his 30 years of career, the host and producer made headlines after disturbing clips from the game Take it or Leave it have resurfaced. Arthur tried to have these videos censored on social networks and today he took it to the next level.
Arthur, the star of TF1, at the heart of a scandal denouncing his sexism
Arthur is one of the iconic television personalities. With a 30-year career, we owe him cult shows like The Fury, Children of TV or even Friday Anything Goes. If TF1 had celebrated the host at the end of 2024, Arthur found himself at the heart of a scandal after extracts fromTake it or Leave ita game he hosted on TF1 between 2004 and 2010, were shared on social networks and in which we can see him with inappropriate behavior towards candidates.
The video bringing together inappropriate gestures as kissing candidates on the mouth without their consent or even growl in a sexual manner in their ear was shared by a feminist media outlet in Luxembourg. The author of the montage aimed to denounce the “sexist behavior” from the TF1 star.
Arthur, interviewed by our colleagues from Parisianhad tried to justify himself by advancing the argument that “it was another time” et “that today, we could no longer animate in the same way“. Despite this declaration, the host still tried to have these images deleted via his company SAMARON, arguing that it was a “illegal, defamatory and truncated textual and photographic use“
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Note that the broadcast of these extracts sometimes led to anti-Semitic messages against Arthur. Some commentators have not hesitated to label it as “Jew who risks nothing in France“. So, the host/producer decided to take it to the next level. He filed a complaint last month and the National Center for the Fight against Online Hate opened an investigation for aggravated public insults “by a discriminatory reason linked to religion“.
For his lawyer, Jacques Essebag (Arthur’s real name) suffered and “slanderous cyberharassment” with the aim of achieving its image and security. A second complaint was filed for violation of the representation of the person by video editing. The host also attacked the social network Since the beginning of this affair, Arthur and his family have felt “highly threatened” going so far as to strengthen their protection.
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