“I didn’t realize it”: Laurent Ruquier corrected his hair on his tongue

Laurent Ruquier no longer has a hair on his tongue.

He didn’t lose it alone… There is no such thing as “baldness” for this little speech problem which the late Jean-Christophe Averty made his signature. And besides, when he started in the profession, he said on the set of “C à vous”, Laurent Ruquier was not bothered more than that by this slight whistling.

When he watches live, Tuesday January 7, an extract from a 1987 show, Comme un s’cheveux sur la z’oupe, the host thinks he is bad, but it is not his lack of pronunciation that makes him distresses.

“Oddly enough, I wasn’t very self-conscious because I didn’t really realize it. I swear to you it’s true,” he insisted. “Before we really did radio – at the time I hadn’t done much – we didn’t really get along and no, for me, it wasn’t a trauma.”

But the author, who also became an animator, nevertheless undertook to correct himself. A somewhat acerbic remark made him decide to do so. “One day, at Europe 1, a director, Patrice Blanc-Francard, when I was an author for Maryse Gildas and Jean Amadou, had to tell me: ‘No, but you’re bad for the air and, what’s more, , you have a hair on your tongue,’” he recalled.

An appointment is made with a speech therapist. The result is not completely convincing, but Laurent Ruquier did not devote much time to it, either. “I corrected it a little. I still have it a little bit, but I corrected it, I worked for it, but not for long, it barely lasted a month,” he confides.

Without complexes, the host of Les Gosses Têtes explains: “It’s a question of concentration (…), a question of breathing, of self-confidence. It reappears very often in moments of stress, if I have a first, I don’t have stage fright, but the hair on my tongue returns at that moment.

Will the hair on the tongue of Laurent Ruquier return on January 23, for the premiere of his new play, “The Mona Lisa finally speaks”?