This September 23rd was a special day for Cyril Hanouna. The star presenter of the C8 channel was celebrating his fiftieth birthday. Half a century for the one who hosts every evening Baba’s Tribe before the always highly anticipated episode of Don’t touch my post. As always in search of sensationalism, The presenter welcomed a new columnist in his team.
While the public was hoping that a personality from the world of influencers would come to strengthen their team, Cyril Hanouna ultimately took everyone by surprise. The star presenter has recruited Danielle GilbertFar from creating a buzz on social networks, she was a star presenter before being shelved for obscure reasons in the early 80s.
Danielle Gilbert, Cyril Hanouna’s new columnist
What a surprise it was for viewers to discover the face of this former announcer. Now aged 81, the native of Clermont-Ferrand will not bring down the average age of the plateau… quite the contrary. Always the speaker, Cyril Hanouna presented his new recruit with a hint of provocation.
“Did you see that there is a newcomer? Danièle Gilbert is making her entrance into TPMP. I’m telling you the truth, I listened to your requests, my darlings, you often wrote to me: ‘There is a lack of influencers, guys who are very present on the networks, on TikTok…’ I said: ‘Come on guys, let’s get Danièle in, let’s go. !’ Did you see how I listened to you? They told me: ‘The 20-30 age group is underrepresented’, and there you go!
Danielle Gilbert talks about leaving television in 1981
The welcome on the set of his new columnist was done in good humor. Arriving with a whole packet of papers, the host attacked her straight away to tease her. “You saw how you worked!” You wrote the Bible or something, what is that? “. To which Danielle Gilbert responded without wavering. “I tried to understand what the driver of the show was because it changes often”.
Once the introductions were over, the former star announcer looked back on her career and her ouster in the early 1980s. Indeed, following the election of François Mitterrand, her closeness to Valéry Giscard d’Estaing was poorly received by the power in place. “My father was from Chamalières and then Chamalières, it was a name that didn’t please because of Giscard who had become mayor when I had already left because there wasn’t room for both of them.” This is therefore a second career that is now opening up to her, 43 years after her departure.
