This Friday, December 6, 2024, Philippe Bouvard celebrates his 95 years. “I'm going as one can go when one has just reached one's 95th year of age. he confided to Laurent Marsick on RTL, a station of which he was the star for a very long time.
Another page is also turning in the journalist's life. The historic host of Grosses Têtes will leave the airwaves the day after New Year's Day. “Because on January 1, I will have established the double record that I hoped for, that is to say 60 years of radio and 60 years of RTL”he explained on air last June.
Philippe Bouvard: where will he spend his retirement?
When he passes through the door of the RTL studio one last time, Philippe Bouvard will fly away towards Cannes. According to information collected by our colleagues at Purepeople, the radio veteran is having happy days “In his 100 meter penthouse squares in downtown Cannes where he lives with his wife of 71 years, Colette, aged 88″.
Inhabited by “a passion for beautiful houses”he said to Parisian some time ago, the happy nonagenarian previously owned a private hotel “Directory period” in the heart of Paris. “This house is too big, too heavy. Taxes have reached a confiscatory level. It pains me, but it’s more reasonable.”he regretted in (…)
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