Which could bring Dorothée back to TV

This week started with the “Blue Monday” but will end with emotion, good humor and a slew of childhood memories for quadras and thirties. Dorothée is making a comeback on the small screen for an evening called “Thank you Dorothée!” “*, Where alumni of the” Dorothée club “and AB series will succeed themselves and the celebrities who grew up with her, like Julien Doré, Lorie, Nolwenn Leroy, Amir or Cartman.

Very rare in the media, the idol with 59 Bercy has a much calmer life since the “Dorothée club” stops in 1997, animated for 10 years on the front page, with up to 1,000 hours of antenna per year . “I have time to see my families, my friends,” she said during an appointment with the press. Before, when I was invited, we knew that I would not come. Now it's: “Be careful! You invite me, I am able to say yes “”.

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Dorothée The “telephage” appreciates Nikos and Cyril Hanouna

The host, now seventies, continues to take an interest in the small screen and even says she is “telephage”. She zaps on “series, a lot of interesting reports and documentaries, programs that tell the crimes and, from time to time, political programs”. Among the animators she particularly appreciates, she praises the sincerity and sensitivity of Nikos – who animates the evening “Thank you Dorothée!” – And also quotes Cyril Hanouna. Does she love them because they animate live, as she could have done? “It's quite swollen. These are still long days, right? You have to do it, hat! She sweeps away.

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In terms of youth program, it is a fact, no one succeeded Dorothée and his band composed of Jacky and Patrick Simpson-Jones– Present on set – and late Ariane and Corbier, disappeared in 2019 and 2018. “ They had a hard time finding five crazyshe smiles. It was another era. Find crazy producers, crazy broadcasters, crazy animators, it becomes difficult […] It was a time when you could try to create, to do. We proposed to Étienne Mougeotte (director of TF1 programs at the time), we discussed it, he said to us “ Go for it ”and we were trying. We did not study, etc. ».

“The kids who could not go on vacation were with us”

“What interested us,” she recalls, the most important thing was the relay between image and life. We were relay between TV and cartoon. It could play down, it could explain. There was a human relay that no longer exists at all now. That's what bothers me ”. “” The kids who could not go on vacation were with us, so they were not alone, she continues The one that has made many charities. We made a link between the family, the school “, to have fun” while learning “things” from time to time “.

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“We may need grandmothers in the cinema”

We would almost forget her, as she marked the history of French television, but Frédérique Hoschedé, his real name, made cinema in its beginnings with François Truffaut. She doesn't know if she could have done a career in the seventh art but she “would have Well liked to return some films ”. “There was none. Finally, there were proposals that were not necessarily fully adapted […] The door is not closed. We may need grandmothers still “in the cinema, joke that which was very touched and surprised to make an appearance in the” Nicky Larson “of Philippe Lacheau.

In the prime time tribute From TF1, Dorothée also takes over the microphone, with the key an unpublished. Television, song, cinema … She hammers him: “The doors are not closed”. It just lacks the proposals that suit him, something that is “cSo what I am, or why not downright different, something with pep ”. She already knows that she could not be a professor in a program, nor a juror. “When the dancers passed auditions, I left. I hid. I loved all those who were mostly, in fact ”.

*”Thank you Dorothée!” », Broadcast Friday, January 24 on TF1 at 9:10 p.m.