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Michel Drucker, 80-year-old star presenter, is currently hospitalized. According to his entourage, it is only a medical check-up following his antecedents. The animator should return to the studios in a few weeks.
The regulars of the small screen will have to do without new numbers of Can’t wait for Sunday in the coming weeks. Michel Drucker, 80-year-old star animator, still active in the post, is currently hospitalized according to information from the Parisian. An admission in connection with past health problems in all likelihood. Therefore, future issues of its weekly show will be reruns.
“He is doing very well” assure his relatives
If the announcement of his hospitalization can be worrying, the entourage of Michel Drucker wants to be reassuring: the animator-star “is currently undergoing a medical check-up following his heart operation in 2020 and is doing very well”, his collaborator, Cathy Costard, told AFP. A version confirmed by Bernard Montiel on C8:
“It was just a small review, which had been planned for a year. He had an operation a year ago, he made this assessment. There is nothing serious, everything is fine, on the contrary.”
The host’s absence time is not yet known. “We agreed with Michel that he take the time to rest after his exams” for his part affirmed Stéphane Sitbon-Gomez, director of antennas and programs of France Télévisions. For the time being, France Télévisions announces that it will resume recordings “within a fortnight”.
Heart problems and hospitalization in 2020
In 2020, Michel Drucker had indeed been hospitalized for almost three months, due to a heart operation, followed by complications. First for an infective endocarditis, then for a triple bypass and finally the infection of his scar mentions the Parisian. In particular, he had been operated on for nearly eight hours, with fifteen hours under anesthesia, plus resuscitation and intensive care. He had been absent from the screens for seven months and had made his return in March 2021.
Given his background, a balance sheet and regular tests do not seem aberrant. “I don’t know what the future holds for me, but now that I have a brand new heart, I can’t see myself stopping this job that I love“he assured in December, on the occasion of his autobiographical show, From you to me.