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VIDEO – Questioned by Thomas Sotto and Amandine Bégot in the RTL morning show, the actor shared the latest information he has on the disappearance of his friend, who died last night of a heart attack.
«Damn, Michel… What have you done to us“. It’s a cry from the heart that Gérard Jugnot launches this Friday morning on RTL. That night, his friend and partner Tanned, Michel Blancdied in hospital of a heart attack. He was 72 years old. The star of Backing singers spoke by telephone to morning workers Thomas Sotto and Amandine Bégot. “It’s a hammer blow“, he said.
And to give details on the circumstances of the disappearance of Michel Blanc. “It’s a very sudden thing. I think he had a huge allergy to a medication.”he reveals, before clarifying his point: “ I know they tried to resuscitate him. It was terrible all day yesterday. But he left”he continues, emotion in his voice.
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Gérard Jugnot still remembers his last reunion with Michel Blanc. “Everything was going well, we had seen each other not long ago for the cover of Matchwe laughed like idiots as usual”he remembers. In April 2024, the Splendid troupe posed for the front page of Paris-Match to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the weekly. “We didn’t see each other often but every time we did, we picked up the story where we left off», confided Gérard Jugnot who met Michel Blanc in fourth grade, during a German lesson.
“We were already old fools, youth came to us late”recalls the actor. “He rode horses, he wanted to do music and then he branched off into theater and literature. It’s thanks to Michel that I did theater“, he continues before summarizing his personality: “He was true to himself, terribly anguished, with this incredible sense of dialogue and this politeness of despair, as they say. He was the French Woody Allen».
