Have you been waiting for this for a long time? M6 did it! This Wednesday, October 16, La Six is relaunching, for an exceptional evening, The Weakest Link. Nine years after the last broadcast (relaunched for a season on C8), and especially twenty-three years after the launch of the game on TF1. But this time, no Laurence Boccolini. The channel called on a “Absolute fan” of the game: Vincent Dedienne. After procrastinating for a long time, the 37-year-old actor agreed to take over the reins of the program and insisted on participating in every detail, notably in the development of the casting. “We invite personalities that we are not used to seeing in TV games. I wanted us to make an astonishing and eclectic cast“, he told us.
The Weakest Link : Vincent Dedienne did not meet the celebrities before arriving on set… and explains why!
So, for the first round, you will find Bernard Campan, Florence Foresti (godmother of the association Women, Safe & Childrenwho will receive the evening’s winnings), Bertrand Usclat, Bérangère Krief, Camille Combal, Clémentine Célarié, Melha Bedia and Pierre-François Martin-Laval. For the second part, Arnaud Ducret, Michel Hazanavicius, Julie Gayet, Jonathan Lambert, Jeanne Cherhal, Monsieur Poulpe, Héléna Noguerra and Marc Lavoine will compete to try to bring in as much money as possible. An audience of celebrities that Vincent Dedienne did not necessarily know personally — “apart from Jeanne Cherhal and Florence Foresti“—and that he has”required not to see before filming“. “I thought it would break something if I went to see them in their dressing room“, he explained to us.
The Weakest Link : why is Laurence Boccolini not present in the special show hosted by Vincent Dedienne?
In any case, the sixteen personalities present this Wednesday October 16 were chosen by Vincent Dedienne. “No one forced me on, it was part of the deal“, he assured us. On the other hand, other names were also on the Mâconnais’ wish list. “As there was only one recording date which fell right during the school holidays (April 19, editor’s note)quite a few people were not there. For example, Isabelle Adjani, if she had not been in New York, told me that she would have done it“, Vincent Dedienne told us. As for his great friend Muriel Robin, she should also have confronted the game. “She couldn’t, she injured her shoulder“, the actor simply told us. Finally, some will point out the absence of Laurence Boccolini, even in a wink. “I didn’t want it to feel like a parody, like I did with the series The Flame which was a parody of Bachelor. I wanted the game to be the star. When Jean-Pierre Foucault responds to Who wants to make millions?I always find it weird“, asked Vincent Dedienne.
