Guest on the show C The weekly On January 11, 2025, Gilles Bouleau was seated next to another emblematic figure of TF1, Nikos Aliagas. Friend of the host of the Star Academythe 62-year-old journalist talked about their links but also their job, which hides many secrets after presenter Aurélie Casse asked him what we could wish for him for 2025. He replied: “We talked earlier about makeup and we’re going to say something banal, but it’s health. What Nikos and I have in common is that, first of all, we love each other a lot. But we do physical jobs. It can’t be seen and it can’t be known, but it doesn’t have to be known. You have to behave, you have to be in shape and there is an athletic dimension to our job“.
“It has to look easy,” adds Tina Grigoriou’s companion. “It’s very hard to make it look easy. But in fact, this is the essence of our job” replies the journalist. “It’s more visible when it’s Nikos because Nikos the physical animation, we see him moving, dancing… Gilles you don’t do all that”, “No but when I reach the end of my day which is at 8:00 p.m…. I toured France before. I worked all morning and all day… At first, I was wrong and I was exhausted when I arrived at 8 p.m.
Gilles Bouleau and Nikos Aliagas “washed out”
No doubt wishing to support the words of his friend, Nikos Aliagas, who was rarely moved during the same broadcast, adds: “People don’t realize this physical dimension of the body facing the camera. When we do a prime or an 8 p.m., there is a fourth glass wall which is the lens, but which is something alive. “It’s not the posture where you only read a teleprompter, you have to tell something and it’s your whole body that speaks. It has a physical and psychological price. Once we leave the show, we’re exhausted.” . An exhausting job but one in which Gilles Bouleau and Nikos Aliagas are perfectly fulfilled.
