Renowned for his outspokenness, Michaël Youn made himself known in the early 2000s with the famous Morning Livebroadcast on M6. But before waking up France with humor, the host made his debut on radio, presenting the Skyrock morning news. His first steps were noticed in the industry, which were marked by a violent altercation with Bernard Tapie, who was renowned for not keeping his tongue in his pocket either. Guest of the show As an asideWednesday December 25, Michaël Youn spoke about this significant moment in radio.
“You went to prison, it’s certainly not for nothing“: Michaël Youn remembers the sentence that greatly irritated Bernard Tapie
From 1998 to 2000, Michaël Youn was on the air at Skyrock to present the newspaper every morning, but his contract ended when Bernard Tapie set foot in the radio studio. For good reason, the host was not afraid to defend a listener’s question: “We were recording which very rarely happens on the radio“, remembers Michaël Youn in En Aparté, before continuing: “A listener asks him a question, it was a trick question because Bernard had declared a few years earlier that now that he had lost against Benfica, in the semi-final, because of a blatant refereeing error, he knew how to win matches and behind that he won the European Cup“. After this recontextualization, Nathalie Levy recalls: “These were the famous OM fixed matches“. The host explains that Bernard Tapie took the question badly and that the tone quickly rose between them: “He gets angry : ‘What is this question? I’m sure you’re trying to trick me’, I told him : ‘Not at all, we’re not trying to trap you, in any case whatever happens, whether we try to trap you or not, you’ve been in prison, it’s certainly not for nothing’. “.
“He has since apologized: Michaël Youn confides that Bernard Tapie apologized to him for hitting him
Michaël Youn’s audacity did not please the former OM leader at all. Bernard Tapie had barely emerged from a corruption scandal in the world of football, for which he was sentenced to six months in prison. When the presenter reflected on his judgment, the businessman got up from his seat to strike a blow at Michaël Youn, he remembers in the apartment of Canal+ : “I didn’t want to make a move, I wanted to impose myself. I didn’t want to be a follower, I didn’t want to pet people necessarily, so he took off his helmet and gave me a huge bath and then I had to apologize, which I refused and I got fired“. His temerity cost the host a job, who was able to bounce back with the Morning Livejust a few months after the incident. In As an aside, the actor of Fatal confides: “He has since apologized, because we were next to each other on set at Thierry Ardisson’s and he didn’t even remember it!“. A few years later, Michaël Youn found himself face to face with the politician again on the set of Thierry Ardisson. Bernard Tapie admitted to having forgotten this altercation.
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