THE TWELVE BLOWS OF NOON. It’s the waltz of the midday masters right now on TF1. Discover the new champion of the 12 noon shots as well as the last clues about the mysterious star.
[Mis à jour le 14 janvier 2022 à 12h45] It continues for Laurent, the new master of 12 noon shots on TF1. The philosophy professor celebrated his second participation this Friday. He secured the rest of his adventure without stressing and even pulled off a great coup worth €10,000. In total, Laurent won €11,000 for himself and a viewer. His correct answers ended up revealing a new clue about the mysterious star: a crocodile which adds to the previous clues a mountainous landscape, an apple, a basket, a chisel, a plane and a sculpture. Faced with the daily enigma of the 12 noon shots, Laurent proposed the name of Frédéric Lopez but without success.
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The ranking of the 12 noon shots was turned upside down by Bruno’s participation. Arrived in the game Jean-Luc Reichmann on January 20 November 2021, the master left him on October 5, 2021 after 252 participations with a total of €1,026,107. He thus beats Eric and his 199 entries and a total of €921,316 in winnings. Third, Christian Quesada, who had long remained the all-category champion of the game with 193 participations and €809,392 in winnings. Then comes Paul with €691,522 and 153 participations, as well as Véronique with exactly 100 participations and €447,226 in winnings. Then comes Léo with 98 participations and €410,591 in winnings and finally Timothée with 83 participations and €353,348 in all.
Christian Quesada, ex-champion of the 12 noon shots, was sentenced to three years in prison for “possession and dissemination of child pornography images” and “corruption of a minor”. Placed in pre-trial detention for a year, the former candidate of the 12 noon shots had admitted the facts of which he is accused but had refuted any physical contact and any sexual assault of the victims. As a reminder, Christian Quesada has long been the holder of the record for participation (193 wins in a row) and winnings (€809,392) for the show. He had participated from July 4, 2016 to January 14, 2017.
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Nicknamed Zette, the voice-over of the game Les 12 coups de midi is played by Isabelle Benhadj. Arrived six months after the launch of 12 noon shots in 2010, she had met Jean-Luc Reichmann in 1987 on Fun Radio where she was a host. You can hear his voice in other television programs such as Secrets d’Histoire on France 2.
Like the France 2 game Everyone wants to take its place presented by Nagui at the same time at DTT program, The 12 strokes of noon asks candidates to answer general culture questions. For his part, Jean-Luc Reichmann tries to learn more about the lives of the participants and breathes dynamism into the show.
The MyTF1 site allows you to view the episodes in live streaming of their broadcast on television. To catch up with them, the channel also lets the latest broadcasts replay for a week.