Patrick Sabatier is releasing a new novel this Wednesday. Two days before the publication, the 72-year-old host spoke in the morning show RTL, this October 7, about the ups and downs in his career.
Wanted notice, The Game of Truth, Lucky Charm, Heart Asset… There are many concepts that Patrick Sabatier created and then presented on TF1 at the end of the 1970s. He reigned supreme over the channel’s entertainment for fifteen years and also had his heyday on the radio, where he was in charge of the morning show from RTL. However, at the dawn of the transition to the new millennium, everything becomes complicated for him and he disappears, almost overnight, from the screens. From 2008 to 2016, the show Password gives him a second lease of life in public service. But how did the star host experience this crossing of the desert?
Patrick Sabatier discusses the excesses of notoriety
This Monday, October 7, Patrick Sabatier was the guest of the segment he knows so well on the red station. Two days before the release of his novel Don’t tell Paul published by Éditions du Rocher, the septuagenarian, who retraces the different periods of his life in this book, looked back with a nostalgic look at the period when he was at the height of his fame. “Everything I have experienced and everything I am going through you will know it, too”he first assures his colleagues Thomas Sotto and Amandine Begot. And analyze: “One day we adore you, it’s excessive, one day we put you down, it’s excessive. Because we are behind microphones or cameras, suddenly we don’t have a normal life, we have a bit of an extraordinary lifewith relationships that are not normal with the public, relationships that are extraordinary”. As far as he is concerned, Patrick Sabatier is one of the few star animators who have experienced excess…
Patrick Sabatier, a formerly adored host
The 72-year-old writer gives as an example: “When I went to sign autographs in some storesbecause I was invited, there are people, I assure you, who handed me their babies so that I could kiss them“. An anecdote which seems to surprise the duo of animators, recognizing that their current notoriety is not of such magnitude. And Patrick Sabatier underlines: “There comes a point when it’s better to have your feet on the Earth because it’s not normal (…) I think things have changed a little bit”.
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