Michel Drucker is currently hospitalized to undergo a battery of check-ups in connection with his heart operation in 2020. The news of his state of health is reassuring.
Michel Drucker is currently hospitalized, we learned the Parisian this Wednesday, February 8. This information is enough to worry all fans of the “Vivement dimanche” host, but nothing to worry about: this hospital stay would be linked to several medical tests following the heart operation he had. suffered in 2020. Michael Drucker should thus leave the hospital by the end of the week, and his relatives want to be reassuring about his state of health.
“He is doing very well”, specifies Stéphane Sitbon-Gomez, director of the antennas and programs of France Télévisions who was aware of the withdrawal of Michel Drucker for health reasons. “We agreed with Michel that he take the time to rest after his exams. I talk to him every day,” he told Le Parisien, thereby reassuring fans of Vivement Dimanche. The show will therefore have two to three weeks of reruns over the next few weekends, while the host recovers.
“Mr. Drucker is doing very well”
A collaborator of Michel Drucker confirms with AFP: the host is doing well. “Mr. Drucker is doing very well. He is currently undergoing a medical check-up following his heart operation. He should resume the recordings [de Vivement Dimanche] within a fortnight and will be back on stage with his show in mid-March.” Reassuring news, therefore, which does not invite concern at all.
Michel Drucker was hospitalized for three months in 2020. The host of “Vivement dimanche” suffered from severe heart problems and had to be operated on. He was notably the victim of an infective endocarditis and a triple bypass. This last operation had lasted 8 hours and required that he be placed in the resuscitation and intensive care units.
In an interview with Parisian, November 30, 2020, the host gave more details on the ordeal he had suffered: “My heart was stopped for a few hours and connected to a machine. There, I realized come close to disaster.” Subsequently, Michel Drucker was again operated on because of the beginning of an infection in his scar. Several months of rehabilitation followed, before the host returned to the screen in March 2021.
“80 years is not that old”
A true figure of the French Audiovisual Landscape, Michel Drucker is also one of the oldest. Now 80 years old, the animator began his career in 1964 as a trainee at the ORTF. While France Télévisions has many times been subject to shocks of youthism in recent years, Michel Drucker has always escaped it. It must be said that his appointment Vivement Dimanche, although he changed channels to settle on France 3, has been on Sunday afternoons since 1998.
No hint of retirement in sight for the octogenarian presenter. In the Media Info program in June 2022, Drucker further explained that “passion does not tire” and especially that being “80 years old today is not that old.” And to remember that some eminent members of show business older than were then still active. “Lelouch is 83 years old and making his 50th film. Hugues Aufray, 94, still sings and Line Renaud, 94, still shoots,” he said on France Info. A beautiful demonstration, if one were needed, that the host of Vivement Dimanche does not particularly want to hang up the microphone and abandon his red sofa.
When will Michel Drucker return to the air?
The hospitalization of Michel Drucker impacts in any case the broadcast of “Vivement dimanche”. Le Parisien tells us this Wednesday, February 8, 2023 that the France 3 program switches to rebroadcast from this Sunday, February 12, 2023. This should continue for the “next two to three weeks”, specifies the regional daily.
In addition, the autobiographical show “From you to me”, which he played alone on stage, is also temporarily suspended.