In an interview with Télé-Loisirs, the 81-year-old host returned to his decision to leave television sets for good.
If he had declared during the summer to Var-Matinwanting to continue “until the end of the second term of Delphine Ernotte (president of France Télévisions)” i.e. 2025, the patriarch of the PAF decided to change his mind.
“That’s no longer news”
Due to his second open heart operation last year and after a first in 2020, Michel Drucker left the television sets to take care of himself.
But sixty years of career and 5 months later, Michel Drucker no longer wants to retire: “It is no longer relevant. Stéphane Sitbon-Gomez (No. 2 at France Télévisions) told me that as long as I I felt that I was doing my job and that the public was loyal to me, I had to continue” explained the presenter.
He adds: “Over nearly 60 years of career, I have spent 55 in public service. Passion does not tire. I speak to all generations and when Julien Doré or Bigflo & Oli call on me for their clips , I don’t have the impression that people see me as old.”
A new show around the Olympic Games with Léa Salamé
And for 2024, the veteran has several projects. In addition to the show “Vivement Dimanche” which he will continue to present on France 3 every weekend, Michel Drucker will direct a new daily program.
He will meet Léa Salamé on the set of a “festive talk show” for the Olympic Games, provisionally called “Quels jeux”. The octogenarian explains: “It was offered to me because I am the only reporter to have covered the 1964 Olympics who is still on the air!”
Michel Drucker is also preparing a new book for the end of 2024 in which he will finally reveal the secrets of his “televisual longevity, reports Tele-Leisure.