When you saw the title of this article, you probably said to yourself “Ah? Jean-Luc Delarue has already worked on TF1? ! “. Well the answer is no. This will not prevent the channel from offering, on August 24 in prime time, a documentary entitled Jean-Luc Delarue, 10 years already: success in excess, on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the death of the emblematic and controversial animator-producer. This program will be produced by Reservoir Prod, the company created by Jean-Luc Delarue.
He died of stomach and peritoneal cancer at the age of 48 on August 23, 2012, when his career had been interrupted by a cocaine affair. A career mainly carried out on France 2… and not on TF1, therefore. “To tell Jean-Luc Delarue is to tell several lives, the ambivalence of the publicly strong, powerful and ambitious character, but ultrasensitive and tortured in intimacy”, indicates the chain in a press release.
Several slippages throughout his career
Considered to be gifted, Jean-Luc Delarue left his mark on television with the innovative side of his programs centered on empathy around the testimony of anonymous people, in the forefront of which It is discussedprogrammed on France 2 from 1994 to 2009.
On the air, his rapid, almost mechanical diction, his assurance, his ease and his eternal earpiece were his trademark. But over the years, his addictions to alcohol and drugs had been the cause of several slippages.
Reservoir Prod productions have spread to all channels, including It’s my choice on France 3 from 1999 or Live my life on TF1 in 2001. In 1996, Jean-Luc Delarue had been at the heart of a controversy over the fabulous contracts of the animators-producers of France 2, accused of plundering the funds of the public service.