“The Weak Link” will soon return on M6 with Vincent Dedienne presenting. The information, including 20 minutes was able to obtain confirmation, was revealed this Monday by Var-Matin. Our colleague specifies that the new version of the game will be produced by BBC France and scheduled in prime time.
If the choice of the actor and comedian to host seems surprising, it is less so when we know his passion for the cult game from the early 2000s and its emblematic presenter Laurence Boccolini. Vincent Dedienne had met, moved, the latter on the set of “Quotidien” at the end of 2016. “I fell madly in love with her when I was a child and it has not left me,” he declared, adding : “she was a brilliant actress in “Le Maillon Faible”, in Miss Joubert, when she wrote columns in “Rien à waxer” on France Inter. »
In popular culture
Laurence Boccolini presented “Le Maillon weak” on TF1 from 2001 to 2007. The show was relaunched for one season, in 2014 and 2015, on D8 (now C8).
The program is part of French popular culture. Highlights of the game (including the brilliant issue dedicated to twins) are regularly shared on social networks. This summer, season 2 of “Drag Race France” imagined a parody version entitled “The Weak Heel”.