At 75, Thierry Ardisson has not yet completely put on his slippers. He also recovered a few million this week…
We know it, Thierry Ardissonthe enfant terrible of the PAF, has never had his tongue in his pocket. A self-confessed provocateur, he has never ceased during his long career to shake up the codes of television. From his programs on La Cinq to Paris Première, via his iconic show Everyone is talking about it on France 2 in the 90s and 2000s, he is, now 75 years old, the agitated, non-conformist and slightly disturbing grandpa of television.
Ardisson’s last really solid TV appearances were in Hello Earthlingsthe show he will launch in 2006 on Canal+. This will change format and channel several times, switching to C8 in 2016. It will be briefly renamed Saturday Earthlingsbefore disappearing in 2019, amid conflict with Vincent Bolloré, boss of Vivendi and therefore of the Canal group.
In the summer of 2019, Thierry Ardisson decided to take legal action against his former boss for “brutal termination of commercial relations”, denouncing the deprogramming of Hello Earthlings. According to him, the late announcement of these caused damage to his production company, Ardisson & Lumières. More than five years later and after several upheavals, the host won his case. On October 18, the Paris Court of Appeal ordered C8 to pay 2.9 million euros in damages. according to Le Parisien. Canal+ is notably singled out for not having respected a notice period of four and a half months before interruption.
And Thierry Ardisson is not doing so badly. If during a 2021 judgment, the compensation certainly amounted to 3.8 million euros, it must be remembered that the commercial court had originally only awarded him around 800,000 euros. The Court of Cassation, referred to by the channel, also favored lower compensation. The final victory and the small jackpot obtained in compensation therefore give cause for celebration.
Building on this legal success, the host settles his scores. Last Sunday on France 5, Thierry Ardisson accused Vincent Bolloré of having “put practically 100 people in the lurch” by killing Hello Earthlingswhich according to him “doesn’t bother him”. And he paid himself in the processfading star of C8a certain Cyril Hanouna, whom he described as a “dangerous star”. “Give a political show to Cyril Hanouna (as Bolloré did during the last elections and with Facing Hanouna), it’s like giving a machine gun to a 12-year-old kid”, also declared Ardisson, assuming his contempt for the fans of the host of TPMP. With or without a machine gun in any case, when it comes to shooting He knows his enemies.