A leading face of the French audiovisual landscape, Michel Drucker is celebrating his 60th career this year. For this special occasion, the host who made his debut as a sports commentator in 1964, looks back on his long career in podcasting Michel Drucker told by Michel Drucker, broadcast by Europe 1, this Monday, December 16. If the presenter of Champs-Élysées has always conveyed an image of a caring and uneventful person, he balances on certain personalities “humanly unfriendly“, whom he nevertheless continues to invite to his shows.
“Which I would have preferred not to know”: Michel Drucker talks about certain personalities he doesn’t like
Michel Drucker is well aware of his image: “I have long been stuck with the image of a consensual, friendly man, without enemies“, he says in the podcast Michel Drucker told by Michel Drucker, but make no mistake, the host remains human: “You can’t believe that I love everyone!he continues. The presenter Looking forward to Sunday relies on an archive of Marion Ruggieri’s show to support his point. In front of the journalist, he confided: “There are three categories of people in this profession: there are people who have talent and who are not very friendly on a human level.“, before continuing: “There are people who think they are neither Aragon, Ferré, nor Brel, it’s the bulk of the troop who are nice, who don’t bring it back, I like them very much“, he specifies. The host evokes the third category of personalities, according to him: “There is a very exclusive club of people who are really talented and who are very good people, we can count them on the fingers of both hands.” During his career, Michel Drucker had the opportunity to interview many personalities, he came to one conclusion: “There are famous people: politicians, singers, actors, TV stars… that I would have preferred not to know. Because they didn’t match the image I had of them“, he explains.
“I’m not going to censor a guy”: Michel Drucker continues to invite certain personalities he does not like
In the same podcast, Michel Drucker states: “I would just like people to know that I am not fooled. I’m kind, caring, it’s my nature, but I’m not stupid“. Words that echo certain feedback from his teams: “From time to time, I listen and hear what the makeup artists, the technicians, my lifelong friends are telling me. The walls have ears, so when we come to do my shows, the least we can do is say good things about it when we leave the studio“, he says. Far from being resentful, Michel Drucker affirms that he continues to invite some of these guests who do not hesitate to criticize him: “I don’t want to harm their show, I’m doing my job, but you can’t like everyone in this job. There are some that I like less, there are some that I like a lot, but I don’t want that to be seen on the air, because he works, they create jobs… I’m not going to censor a guy because I can’t blame him when he has talent and he needs to put on a play or a show.“he justifies, before concluding: “If you see the series Ten Percent, they are below the truth!”
