Monsieur Parizot now has its spin-off on TF1. A hardened bachelor from Camping Paradis, actor Patrick Paroux nevertheless shares a beautiful love story for more than 20 years with an actress…
There’s something new for Camping Paradis fans! While the campsite setting and the “Fiesta boom boom” have hardly changed since 2006, TF1 decided to innovate by turning to the emblematic character of Monsieur Parizot. The camper, as egocentric as he is cantankerous, is now entitled to his own derivative fiction on the first channel. Entitled “Monsieur Parizot”, this new front page production features the famous grumpy retiree in a police investigation, halfway between Hercule Poirot and Agatha Christie.
For a special episode, Christian Parizot leaves his location 68 and the sun of the campsite for the jackets and sweaters of Colmar, his native region in Alsace. On the program for this highly anticipated spin-off: a mysterious murder and a family of colorful aristocrats. We discover that in his daily life as a retiree, Parizot, played by Patrick Paroux, is a cycling enthusiast who loves going out in nature with his great friend Dodo (Philippe Caroit). It is the death of the latter which is the starting point of the plot. Parizot, a fan of thrillers and detective films, therefore decides to carry out the investigation with a young gendarme, played by Clémence Lassalas.
This event episode, directed by Nicolas Copin and written by the faithful screenwriter Laurent Mondy, was scheduled for this Monday, October 7, 2024, in prime-time on TF1. If it is a success with the audience, the channel plans to transform this spin-off into a collection of TV films, with two to three episodes per year. Enough to delight fans of Monsieur Parizot, this old-fashioned, clumsy and grumpy character, but so endearing that he has established himself as one of the big stars of Camping Paradis.
For the record, Christian Parizot is on screen an eternal bachelor who collects imaginary conquests and rakes. But in real life, his interpreter Patrick Paroux has been swimming in romantic happiness for many years. Since 2002, the 71-year-old actor has been in a relationship with Anne-Cécile Crapie, a trainer and actress herself, seen in several series and TV films (Foster family in 2009, Un jour mon père sera in 2010 Au Nom De My Daughter in 2016, Clem in 2018…).
Their beautiful story gave birth to a marriage in 2005 and a son, Corto, now in his twenties. In an interview with Télé-Loisirs, Patrick Paroux said he was “lucky to be with the woman I love”. He also returned to their meeting on stage. “We had played in other shows before but we got closer during the play ‘What we talk about when we talk about love'”, he explained. A nice nod to destiny, the starting point of a romance that has lasted for more than 20 years.
In the weekly more recently, Patrick Paroux also assures that he plans to get back on stage with his wife. But he also confides that Anne-Cécile Crapie regularly transforms into a coach, one of her jobs, for her acting career. “There is a bond between us, she always encourages me. In particular to continue Parizot when sometimes I say that I would like to move on to something else, she tells me ‘look at all our actor friends who would like to be in your place'”. And to conclude: “She sets the record straight for me a little.”