Bruce Toussaint has been accompanying the French people when they wake up for twelve seasons! After his stints at Canal+, i-TELE and Europe 1, where he worked for several years early in the morning, the journalist took on a new challenge last January. With Bonjour !the 50-year-old man hopes to make his show broadcast on the front page an inherent rendezvous of the PAF. To do this, he has surrounded himself with a team composed of Christophe Beaugrand, Karima Charni and Benjamin Muller. But above all, the latter has imposed a specific fitness and slimming program on himself. And the least we can say is that it shows.
Bruce Toussaint lost several kilos in a few months
While he readily admits that working early in the morning can be a real challenge for the body, Bruce Toussaint says he hasn’t always been as attentive to his health as he is today. : “I admit that I paid for it during my previous morning experiences”he told our colleagues at Sat Cable TV. Confessions that would almost sound like regret for the one who adds that he had “want to manage this better, from the start, in January”. Determined to be in Olympic shape for the presentation of his new show on TF1, the journalist followed a very specific program that allowed him to lose weight. What “be in shape and give the maximum energy possible.” A slimmer figure that the former strongman of Canal+ had already exhibited during his visit to Roland-Garros last May, where he was accompanied by his son Noé who is taller than him.
Bruce Toussaint’s morning show on TF1 is still struggling to get going
Launched in January 2024, Bonjour ! is struggling to find its audience. With figures that peak at between 9 and 10% audience share each day, or 280,000 to 300,000 viewers, The show still struggles to unleash passionsA situation which does not seem to worry the channel or its star presenter. “I haven’t been given any figures and I try not to give myself any.” he specifies, adding: “Since January, I have been facing one of the biggest challenges of my career”.
For now, there is no point in putting the cart before the horse. As he explains during his interview, Bruce Toussaint wants above all “consolidate” the formula already in place. “We are convinced that our meeting must be mixed: concrete on the information and warm, hypervivant on everything related to culture, leisure, lifestyle, cuisine“. A major challenge to which must be added the regional anchoring of TF1, an extremely important part of its DNA. If the program was said to be in a running-in period until now, its teams hope, for this return to school, to move up a gear and climb onto the podium of the morning shows.
