This Tuesday, January 7, 2025, Laurent Ruquier was invited to C to you on France 5. In addition to having discussed his current affairs, the host remembered his very first time at the helm of the Big Heads on RTL, a show of which he was a fan as a teenager and which he dreamed of presenting one day.
Laurent Ruquier is in the news with the show The Mona Lisa finally speaks for which he wrote the text and which is directed by Rodolphe Sand. In the title role, spectators will find actress Karina Marimon at the Champs-Élysées studio from January 23, 2025. Guest on the show C to you on France 5, the host was full of praise for the actress. “She is exceptional in this role (…) I have proposed to quite a few actresses, Karina knows it, before… I didn’t know her, I couldn’t propose to her, it was by chance that I came across her (…) I saw her appear on stage and then I said to myself: ‘It is to her that I must entrust the role’, it’s a wonderful meeting“, he told Anne-Élisabeth Lemoine and her team.
The Big Heads : Laurent Ruquier marked by his very first time at the helm of the show on RTL
Ten years ago, on August 25, 2014 precisely, Laurent Ruquier presented the show for the very first time The Big Heads on RTL. A sequence that he was able to rediscover on the set of C to youhe who said to himself “iron“to succeed Philippe Bouvard who held the reins of entertainment for 37 years.”Count on me so that the Big Heads will make you laugh and cultivate you for a very long time. Thank you for being there to those who were already listening to Les Grosses Têtes and welcome to all those who are joining us“, he continued during its premiere on RTL. “It’s one of the best moments of my life“, he reacted on France 5. And added: “I was asked not so long ago about the best moments of my life, that’s one of them… There are maybe three, four, five days that I could name in my life that are some of the best moments“.
“I didn’t apply, I didn’t apply, it’s even more wonderful“
Laurent Ruquier was such a fan of the show that he counted on his mother to do him a huge favor while he was in class. “I asked my mother to record Les Grosses Têtes so that I could listen to them at home in the evening. Afterwards, as we know, I made shows which could resemble Les Grosses Têtes, it was on Europe 1, it was called ‘We’re going to get in trouble’. I never imagined that one day someone would call me (…) to tell me: ‘We thought of you to succeed Philippe Bouvard’. I didn’t apply, I didn’t apply, it’s even more wonderful. They call me and tell me: ‘It will be you’. It’s incredible“, he confided.
