Philippe Bouvard: after his private mansion and his luxurious villa, he spends happy days in this penthouse with his wife

Philippe Bouvard: after his private mansion and his luxurious villa, he spends happy days in this penthouse with his wife
Philippe Bouvard: after his private mansion and his luxurious villa, he spends happy days in this Cannes penthouse with his wife

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 . 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 . “This house is too big, too heavy. Taxes have reached a confiscatory level. It pains me, but it’s more reasonable.”he regretted in the columns of
Parisianin 2016.

Philippe Bouvard: this pharaonic villa from which he separated

Instead of the gray Parisian atmosphere, Philippe Bouvard now prefers the sun of the Côte d'Azur. The 100 square meter apartment he occupies today seems very modest next toa pharaonic villa which he had acquired several years ago.

Sold in 2021, this immense Cannes property
442 square meters and 3,190 of land was enough to make one dizzy. It had a total of six bedrooms, a veranda, a swimming pool, a lounge area and a gym. Now in a wheelchair, the grand master of Grosses Têtes had to opt for accommodation adapted to his disability, but which is assumed to be just as comfortable as his former properties.

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