“My career as an animator is up and down, confessed Christophe Dechavanne in 2019 to the Parisian. And there, the hollow is a bit long. I am like a smoker who has run out of cigarettes: cravings.
Same story, three years later, at Télé Loisirs. “I want to do TV again, it’s no mystery, says the 63-year-old host. I would love, for example, to present a program with artists and comedians, as Michel Drucker does. I really admire artists and I think we need to laugh right now. Or a welcome program combining entertainment and current events”. The legendary ex-presenter of The Wheel of Fortune, on the other hand, no longer stomps to get what he wants on TV. “In contrast, I stopped ‘scratching at doors’ like a cat! Everyone has my phone number and knows my desires. I am easy to find. But I’m very relaxed and don’t feel any sourness.”
The return of his cult duo with Patrice Carmouze
If Dechavanne had returned to C8 for a few take-it-or-leave-it numbers, he disappeared from the radar for years. And that’s why he thinks back to his emblematic duet with Patrice Carmouze.“A professional meeting like the one I had with Patrice, there is only one in a lifetime! We had such a bond… Our shows were schoolboys but we still learned things. What we could have had fun!”, thus indicates Christophe Dechavanne to Télé-Loisirs, which also offers a podcast called “Les petits Poids” (available on all audio platforms) and which gives the floor to passionate French people. “I was telling her that we should do something together again before we die. He interrupted me by saying: “It’s a good title!”. I answer him: “What?”. And he said to me: “Before I die”. So we’re thinking about doing something together again called “Before I die”. We do not yet know on what medium or in what form. But one thing is certain: it sure won’t be some old-fashioned grumpy stuff“.