Sébastien Thoen is no longer Persona non grata on the encrypted channel. Two and a half years after being fired, the comedian and host will return to Canal + in a program devoted to travel, the channel unveiled on Monday by presenting its back-to-school schedule.
“We are happy to see you again”, launched Gérald-Brice Viret, director of programs for Canal + during the press conference, in front of a Sébastien Thoen grimaced as a “journalist from the gazette of Montluçon”, who provided the show part. “And tonight is the party, that’s the Canal spirit”, replied the one who will host at the start of the school year The Tourism Agencywith Baptiste Lecaplain which promises to be a “docu-fiction trip throughout Europe”.
A dismissal that had caused an outcry
Sébastien Thoen, who has meanwhile left for Big heads on RTL, was fired from Canal+ in November 2020 after participating in a sketch that parodied Pascal Praud’s show, Time for the pros on CNews, the group’s news channel, a subsidiary of Vivendi controlled by businessman Vincent Bolloré. The dismissal of the then columnist of the Channel Sports Club and presenter of hard diary had caused an uproar within the chain.
Sports presenter Stéphane Guy was also fired after expressing his support for him on the air. Other employees had signed a petition to support him.
Sébastien Thoen had started at Canal + in the years 1990-2000 in the programs of Karl Zéro The real newspaper And The Good News Newspaperbefore co-hosting the parody show Discreet action from 2006 to 2009 and to participate in various programs including The big newspaper.