This Friday, December 20 is the event! TF1 is launching for the first time a special and unique issue of Mask Singer on the occasion of the Christmas holidays. Ten celebrities will hide under costumes that are just as impressive as ever and try to hide their voices while singing. And all will be unmasked during the evening!
For the return of the show a little early, Camille Combal regains her place as host and, on the investigators' bench we find Kev Adams, Chantal Ladesou, Anggun and Laurent Ruquier. The latter has enjoyed this role since the previous season, after having spent a short three-month stint on BFMTV at the head of the 8 p.m. from Ruquier. The journalist and presenter was also recently seen as a contestant in The Traitors on M6 but also at the controls of Game Master on TF1. In short, Laurent Ruquier no longer worries and goes wherever the desire takes him.
But for more than 30 years, he was faithful to France 2. Indeed, it is impossible to forget that Hugo Manos' companion notably presented the programs We tried everything from 2000 to 2007, We just want to laugh about it from 2010 to 2012, We are not in bed from 2006 to 2020, We are live from 2020 to 2022 and TV Kids from 2017 to 2023. But it was in 2020 that he began to express desires for emancipation, when he made the decision to stop We are not in bedto the great dismay of the producer of the show and her collaborator of twenty years, Catherine Barma.
The war before justice for Laurent Ruquier and Catherine Barma
This decision marked the divorce between the two strong heads and war was even declared through the courts. On the one hand, Catherine Barma sued Laurent Ruquier for “sudden termination of established commercial relationship“which had made her lose a lot since she had been forced to lay off several employees of her company All on Screen. The TV man, for his part, demanded money from the producer, that of his last shows which would never have been paid to him.
The verdict of this trial which opposed them was rendered in 2022, in favor of Catherine Barma. The thirteenth chamber of the Paris commercial court then ordered Laurent Ruquier's companies (Ruq Productions and Little Bros) to pay All on Screen nearly a million euros in damages (more precisely 999,715 euros). Unsurprisingly, there was no going back after this affair. “We would pass each other in the street, she would be the one to change sidewalks, eh! It's part of the absurdities of this job (…) We are still adult people, and when we have a little intelligence, we talk to each other…“, regretted Laurent Ruquier on RTL in May 2022.
