This program has brought a lot to Laurent Ruquier. Today, she makes him lose a little fortune …
Laurent Ruquier went from success to success for years. For more than 30 years, this figure of the PAF has multiplied emissions, entertainment, social or even info, before returning to the game with Mask Singer And THE Game master On TF1, without counting thethe traitors On M6 recently. But it’s good We are not lyingbroadcast for 14 seasons on France 2, which will have offered it its hours of glory. A program that brought together millions of viewers on Saturday evening and a big money affair.
As a co-producer, Laurent Ruquier would have billed 180,000 to 190,000 euros in public service for capital or Parisian figures at the time, makingONPC The most expensive TV talk show. The host pocketed 10,000 euros per emission or 40,000 euros per month depending on figures provided at the same time by VSD or TV 2 weeks. And that’s still without counting a salary of 70,000 euros per month on RTL, where he began to animate The big heads In 2014. Sum he would however share with his technical team.
With these crazy figures, the short passage of Laurent Ruquier on BFMTV in 2023 will stir up speculation on his remuneration, which will force him to assert that he won less on the news channel than on France 2. But the end d ‘We are not lying He will also have cost a small fortune, out of turn.
Back in 2020. As summer approaches, thehe audiences of the most popular talk in France suddenly fall and France Télévisions no longer finds its account. Le Small empire of “lord” PAF vacillates. Laurent Ruquier, whose company “Ruq Productions” co-produces the program with “everything on the screen” of the faithful Catherine Barma, Then decides to end the program. Instead, he spear We are livestill on France 2, that he will animate for two years before throwing in the towel.
The HIC: Laurent Ruquier Then decides to do without his historic partner who has followed him for 20 years and put an end to their collaboration. After exchanges that are not very reduced in the media, the two pundits of the TV will each carry the case in the courts, in 2021. Catherine Barma will notably denounce a brutal rupture of commercial relationship when stoppingWe are not lyinghaving caused dozens of layoffs in his company.
In June 2022, Laurent Ruquier was thus ordered to pay 780,340 euros in damages to Catherine Barma “due to the insufficiency of the breakdown of rupture”. An amount revised upwards on appeal this week. The Court of Appeal has indeed recalculated compensation linked to economic layoffs, which have been from 219,375 euros to 452,689 euros. She also considered that Laurent Ruquier owed nearly 620,000 euros to Catherine Barma and Catherine Barma 380,000 euros in Laurent Ruquier. On arrival, a slate of 1.5 million euros that the star will have to pay his former co -producer.
“I was well had contractual by Ms. Barma,” reacted Laurent Ruquier to AFP, without specifying if he intended to appeal to cassation. Before the 2021 trial, he had denounced the hiring of a “plethoric staff” which he had “never asked for him to be committed”. He believed that Catherine Barma had “even made people of his family work” on We are not lying and had seen His “juicy fruit” company thanks to him.