The Z’amours were turned away. From this Monday, at 11:20 am, Bruno Guillon will meet the public of France 2 at 11:20 am with a new game, Each in turn. A mixture of chance, general culture and skill. In each round, two participants will be drawn. Whoever emerges victorious from a duel of questions will be able to try his luck at Japanese billiards and, if he is still in the race at the end of the program, to win the jackpot… We asked the host to tell us about it. more on this concept and to tell us about its radio re-entry on Fun and RTL.
How would you present, in a few words, the concept of “Each in turn”?
The contestants for this game are members of the public. They are thirty. The little originality is that you can never get out until you have won the final prize pool. We will therefore gain the loyalty of viewers with candidates who will have to appear in several shows and who may find themselves facing their other half or their work colleague.
Did you easily take your marks at the presentation? Or did you still have “Z’amours” automatisms against which we had to fight?
I don’t fight against automatisms because, in my way of presenting, I do Bruno Guillon. I’m not going to chase my natural. I am on the air as I am in life.
“Les Z’amours” worked a lot on table tennis with couples, their anecdotes, their little bickering … Isn’t that more complicated?
No because, as I said, the candidates stay in the game until they have won the jackpot. So there are some that viewers will be able to see for two or three weeks. It creates links between the participants which make that, like what I did in The Z’amours, I can play on this connivance, especially as some come as a couple. It happens that man and woman or man and man come face to face to answer my questions.
Do you feel a form of nostalgia towards “Les Z’amours”?
I am not a nostalgic person. Nostalgia has a spleen side that I don’t like too much. All the experiences that I have lived remain as sweet memories. I am not in the culture of the past. The end of Love Obviously pained me because it’s the end of a twenty-six year story for viewers and, for me in animation, it’s been three years with a team of several dozen people who, for some , were there from the start. Obviously, the last show was a heartbreak, but now I moved on, with the feeling of a duty accomplished because, in the end, the audiences were the best for ten years.
“Les Z’amours” was twenty-six years on the air… Does this longevity put pressure on the game that replaces it?
I’m not the type to put pressure on myself. I am quite serene. I’m not attacking at all by telling myself that this game will last twenty-six years. If we manage to do a full season, that already means that the game is working well. We’ll see after. I started doing radio because I told myself that it was a thing where you had to constantly renew yourself and that I don’t like to shoot high for the long haul. I do the same on TV.
You are now, since this summer, 50 years old. It is a course. What is your view on your professional career, on the path accomplished and the one that remains to be accomplished?
My childhood dream was to be a national radio host one day. I realized it at 25 years old. Since then, it’s been a bonus. I have two sentences which describe me quite well, which are not Schopenhauer or Descartes. The first is Michel Blanc / Jean-Claude Dusse who says, in The Bronzed : “Forget that you have no chance, go for it, on a misunderstanding it can work. So I prove that it works. The second is taken from Coluche’s sketch entitled “Le Belge”. He said: “I put a coin, there’s a falling can. I put on a second coin, there’s a second can falling… ”And the fall was:“ As long as I win, I play! I am a little in this dynamic there: as long as I win, I play and the day when it does not work any more, I will move on to something else. But that’s not for me to decide. I chose a profession that is worn by the public, so as long as it gives me its approval, it’s great. The day he won’t give it anymore, which I can understand, I’ll do something else.
This Monday, you make your comeback on Fun Radio. “Bruno in the radio” will celebrate his ten years and one day on that day. Have you prepared the candles? Something special ?
(Laughs) No. Earlier, you put your finger on the fact that I had celebrated my 50 years and I am not too much on the age markers. We’re going to tackle this eleventh season as if it were a first season on a new radio station. I often compare our profession to the myth of Sisyphus who climbed a stone to the top of a mountain and, when he woke up the next day, found that the stone had fallen down and he had to start over. Our job is to tell ourselves that nothing is ever taken for granted. It’s not because it’s the eleventh season that we arrive with our hands in our pockets and we unfold as usual, I don’t want to fall into that.
You are also going to present a new program on RTL…
Yes, every Sunday. RTL gives me carte blanche to do a one-and-a-half-hour program, from 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., which will be called Happy Sunday Show. I don’t like the expression “American talk-show” but for once we are going to play this cliché because we are going to do the show in an American talk-show setting and the goal will be to have a laugh with a guest. The first will be Kad Merad, then there should be Pierre Niney, Marc Lavoine, Laurent Laffitte, etc. I can’t wait because this is a radio project that has been close to my heart for a long time.