Little alert for Michel Drucker. The 80-year-old TV presenter is hospitalized for tests related to his past heart problems, as mentioned The Parisian. Therefore, the next issues of his weekly program “Vivement dimanche”, now broadcast on France 3, will be reruns.
The host-star “is currently undergoing a medical check-up following his heart operation in 2020” and “is doing very well”, his collaborator, Cathy Costard, told AFP. “We agreed with Michel that he take the time to rest after his exams”, for his part affirmed Stéphane Sitbon-Gomez, director of the antennas and programs of France Télévisions, in the columns of the Parisian. According to the newspaper, this hospital stay “should end at the end of the week”.
According to his collaborator Cathy Costard, Michel Drucker should resume the recordings “within a fortnight”. Since the start of the school year in September, this program, which has existed since 1998, has moved from France 2 to France 3, on Sundays at midday.
A three-month hospitalization in 2020
In 2020, Michel Drucker had been hospitalized for almost three months due to heart surgery followed by complications. He had been absent from the screens for seven months and had made his return in March 2021.
“I don’t know what the future holds for me, but now that I have a brand new heart, I can’t see myself stopping this job that I love,” he told AFP in December. on the occasion of his autobiographical show, “From you to me”, on view at Studio Marigny in Paris.
A show that must also be interrupted because of these new exams. According to Cathy Costard, the host “will be back on stage in mid-March”. Written by Michel Drucker on his hospital bed in 2020, this show features his meeting with his 30-year-old double (represented via archive footage), who comes to his bedside and questions him about his future at home. television.