Today she is a key figure in “Touche pas à mon poste”. It was in September 2016 that Géraldine Maillet, writer and director, joined the team of the C8 show. Over time, she became a recurring columnist on the talk show, particularly distinguishing herself by her sometimes tense exchanges with Cyril Hanouna or the rest of the gang, like the one that occurred at the start of the season, during a debate on the conflict between PSG and Kylian Mbappé. A subject which has since become the source of several reframings of the host on the air.
“‘TPMP’, it’s time for fighting, for arguments”
In an interview given to the “Censored” podcast of the Belgian magazine “Télépro” this Wednesday, November 20, the director spoke about her role in the program. “Did you want to stop ‘Touche pas à mon poste’ at a certain point?“, asks journalist David Barbet. “No, never“, assures the columnist. When asked if she has already “cry” when leaving a show, after sometimes very difficult discussions, she responds, once again, categorically: “Never“. “Have you ever cried after a family dinner? It’s the same“, she adds.
“Everyone has their own sensitivity, but me no, not at all, never in life“, she insists. “For me, it’s the time of the family dinner, the time of the show, the time of the agora, the time of the fight, the time of contradictory opinions, of the argument“, explains the columnist, who confides that after a complicated broadcast, it is rather her stomach that cries out for comfort.”I’m hungry. I want to eat“, she smiles.
“It’s a kind of interlude, like that, like a dinner“, adds the columnist, who also ensures not to discuss it again with Cyril Hanouna after the show. “Yes, sometimes I can tell my friend Valérie Benaïm, who is my best friend, that ‘tonight was hot’ or ‘I don’t agree at all’, but it’s like work colleagues In fact”, she tempers. “On the contrary, it galvanizes me. I like it, because I defend my ideas, we don’t agree but it’s alive“, she concludes on the subject.
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“I find it very violent, very unfair”
Géraldine Maillet on the non-renewal of the C8 frequency by Arcom
Géraldine Maillet was then questioned about the announced shutdown of C8 after the Arcom decision concerning the allocation of DTT frequencies, and about the possibility of having “lower income” in the event that the talk show ends in March. “Yes, there is that whole aspect. But first, personally, I am not the only one. There are 400 people who find themselves on the floor. Technicians, hairdressers, makeup artists, editors, etc. There is an entire economy that is being flattened“, underlines the former model.
“I find it very, very violent. It’s very unfair, very arbitrary. And in a difficult economic time, where there are a lot of people who have difficulty finding work, I find it particularly disgusting“, she continues, before discussing her own case and her future plans. “On a personal note, I am 52 years old, I have done a thousand things in my life. I will reinvent myself, I will write other books. There, I’m producing a series on fashion for MyCanal called ‘Backstage’“, she reveals. “But I can’t believe, I don’t understand how we can deprive more than 2 million people every day, every evening, of ‘TPMP’“, she denounces again.
Concerning a possible departure from the Canal+ group, here again, she is rather optimistic. “I have no reason to leave them. If they want me, I want them. I don’t have any suggestions anyway. I am very, very loyal and I owe a lot to Cyril. If he goes elsewhere and if he needs me, I am, yes, with pleasure, with joy and with gratitude”she confides, before concluding: “Well it depends, not in everything“.
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