20 years later, the return of Bigdil is a hit with audiences. Vincent Lagaf found his fortune there and, above all, enough to improve his meager retirement…
Twenty years after stopping on TF1, The Bigdil makes a resounding return to RMC Story. Broadcast since January 2 in prime time, the famous game shatters the channel’s audience records. For its launch, the show attracted 1.8 million viewers, or 9.1% audience share, allowing RMC Story to rank 4th national channel. A totally unexpected triumph for this comeback which has already earned it a move from Thursday to Friday evening.
This new version of bigdil is also a real resurrection for Vincent Lagaf, who many thought was definitively buried in the profession, at 65 years old. The star host of the 90s proves that he has lost none of his legendary banter and his showmanship. And he is also getting back into financial health. When RMC offered him to relaunch the cult show, he says he had a cash conversation about his fee. “They started by offering me a fee, I said ‘wait, is that Vincent Lagaf you’re talking to on the phone? You’re not asking for a room attendant, you’re asking for a host!’ he explained to Le Parisien. “I said ‘yes, so that’s it. Now we’re talking about serious things. What’s your budget? I’m taking so much’.”
But for this winning comeback, the former king of the PAF still had to put water in his wine. “I am paid seven times less compared to what I earned on TF1,” he confided. At the time, he revealed that he pocketed the tidy sum of 10,000 euros per issue. That leaves a nice little salary that’s already comfortable given the reduced means compared to the heyday (60% budget reduction and 50,000 euros in gifts “only”).
-Today, Vincent Lagaf therefore earns his living much less well with this new bigdilbut let’s be reassured: the host promises not to have accepted this project “for the money”, but above all “for the fun”. And the sixty-year-old has in the process greatly improved the meager pension, which he complained about in the media in recent years. He was particularly moved by a pension of only 1700 euros per month in the documentary TV: your merciless universebroadcast on C8 in April 2024.
Because if he amassed a good fortune during his career, notably thanks to the stratospheric sales of his hit “Bo le lavabo” which brought him nearly 4 million francs at the time, the troublemaker of the PAF would have since lost a good part of his money. A lavish lifestyle, some extravagant expenses, “financial whims” and bad investments would have got the better of his nest egg. “I didn’t win any money until I was 30, and then at 30 I took the lottery in order all at once,” explained the host on C8. “Every day, you see the pill you take, I lost my temper. I became an idiot,” he admitted. As long as he understood the lesson…
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