Nagui, star host of France Télévisions, is also a businessman who has built an empire. The salary and colossal fortune of the PAF star make the media fantasize.
He enjoyed the success of Taratata, Don’t forget your toothbrush or May the best win in the 1990s. He also experienced difficult years on TF1 and Canal+ between 1996 and 2005, a “very painful” period as reported by the press, which recalls that at the time “everyone said it was over” . Yet Nagui is one of the hottest hosts on television today. A success which is accompanied by a real empire, built by this hard worker, in a profession less known to the general public: that of producer.
Creator of the company Air Production in 1993, which launched dozens and dozens of programs, Nagui saw the tide turn in his favor in the 2000s, with several daily, weekly broadcasts or events sold to France Télévisions, including essential Everyone wants to take their place (launched in 2006) and Don’t forget the lyrics (in 2007). So much so that at the end of the decade, it attracted investors.
In 2009, Nagui signed the deal of his career, selling his company to Stéphane Courbit, president of Banijay. An audiovisual giant, generating nearly 1 billion euros in turnover, and of which it still held 5.3% in 2018, via Holding Fam (Nagui’s real name being Nagui Fam). The stake would amount to 20 million euros in the group, European leader in television production with notably Fort Boyard, Koh LantaOr Don’t touch my post ! in its catalog.
The resale of his shares should one day bring him a real treasure. But in the meantime, Nagui would receive a comfortable remuneration as an employee of Banijay, according to Capital, i.e. “between 750,000 euros and 1 million euros per year”. Much more than Hanouna or Drucker, which would turn around 500,000 euros annually.
It must be said that Nagui, via Air Production which became Banijay Production Média, brings money into the company. According to a Télérama survey at the end of 2023, France Télévisions would order, directly or indirectly, no less than 30 million euros of programs each year. Don’t forget the lyricsbroadcast daily on France 2, would be the only program on the channel to be profitable with Telematinaccording to the weekly. “In 2022, it accounted for 24% of France 2’s annual advertising revenue,” the magazine also wrote.
Enough to want to keep Nagui warm in the public service, as Delphine Ernotte, the president of France TV, would have worked to do in 2015. While Nagui was courted by M6, she would have stepped up to the plate by making him a counter-proposal generous: “a game on France 3, two others on Deux, a dozen prime times, the return of Taratata“… Always for the public service. A public service which seems to be fond of Nagui since he also receives between 120,000 and 150,000 euros in annual salary at France Inter, where he notably hosts The Original Soundtrack.
The result? The presenter enjoys a nice real estate portfolio and a more than comfortable lifestyle with a magnificent house with garden in Paris, a beautiful villa with swimming pool in Saint-Trop, a car with driver… But his fortune does not don’t stop there. Nagui would also be the happy owner of a Tesla Model