New heart operation for Michel Drucker. The 80-year-old host was operated on Monday in a Parisian hospital and he is fine. His return to “Vivement dimanche” on France 3 is postponed until April.
Michel Drucker, 80, had heart surgery and will not be able to return to television in April as planned, a France Télévisions official told the newspaper. Le Parisien/Today in France. “Michel wants to return to the air before the end of the season. In any case, it will not be for April,” Stéphane Sitbon-Gomez, director of antennas and programs for the public group, told the newspaper.
According Le Parisien/Today in Franceconfirming information from the magazine Here is, the host-star was operated on Monday in a Parisian hospital. “The operation went very well,” assured Stéphane Sitbon-Gomez, joined Thursday by the daily. Michel Drucker had been hospitalized for tests in early February, three years after a first major heart operation.
As a result of this hospitalization, the numbers of his program “Vivement dimanche”, Sunday at midday on France 3, had been replaced by reruns. Since the start of the school year in September 2022, this program created in 1998 has gone from France 2 To France 3. The presenter’s recent health problems also led to the interruption of his autobiographical show, “From you to me”, playing at Studio Marigny in Paris.
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.