Benjamin Castaldi has confirmed his departure from Touche not at my post after seven years alongside Cyril Hanouna.
Seven years on C8 are coming to an end. Benjamin Castaldi announced his departure from Do not touch My TVshow by Cyril Hanouna in which he had been a columnist since 2016. In an interview with the Parisian, the host however assured that there is “neither discomfort nor annoyance” which motivated his unexpected departure. He thus claims to be “always very good friends with Cyril [Hanouna].” “I owe a lot to Cyril. He reached out to me when few people did,” he said.
But why does Benjamin Castaldi leave Do not touch My TV ? “From a common agreement [avec Cyril Hanouna], we thought it would be nice to take a break, he says. It must be said that the 53-year-old host has other projects, a play about his family and especially his grandmother Simone Signoret, which he is launching at the Théâtre de la Madeleine at the start of the school year.
Benjamin Castaldi thus ensures that his departure from TPMP is not a farewell, “it’s a goodbye, with a lot of love.” The question arises, since the team of columnists of the Hanouna show is amputated by the departure of another columnist, Matthieu Delormeau. Conversely, Evelyne Thomas and Alex Goude join the show. But let viewers be reassured, Benjamin Castaldi has not yet definitively closed the door to the small skylight, and would also like to return to the animation of a game or entertainment.
Short biography of Benjamin Castaldi – Benjamin Castaldi was born on March 28, 1970 in Boulogne-Billancourt (France). It is not by chance that Benjamin Castaldi chooses to live in the light. This child of the ball has been rubbing shoulders with the world of cinema since childhood. Son of Jean-Pierre Castaldi and Catherine Allégret, his grandparents were a legendary film couple, Simone Signoret and her companion Yves Montand. He started his career in 1994 with Michel Drucker where he was a cinema columnist on the show studio gabrielthen in Can’t wait for Sunday. From 1999, he became more and more present on the small screen. On TF1, he hosts Celebritieswith Carole Rousseau and Stéphane Bern.
But it is on M6 that it explodes. The 6th channel offers him to present the first reality TV show, loft story. This program offers him significant visibility and Benjamin is now one of those animators without whom we cannot count. M6 reiterates its confidence in him by entrusting him with the presentation of prime time but above all of The new star which he hosts for four seasons. In May 2006, he left the ship in the middle of the season for TF1. In 2007, he successfully animated the game 1 against 100participates in the launch of a new program on people, VIP languagesand returns to reality TV with Secret Story. He also animates The Celebrity Farm in June 2009. The program will not be renewed, for lack of audience. Still present on TF1, notably with Secret Storyhe obtained the channel’s agreement to host an adventure program on Gulli in 2014: Tahiti Quest. He leaves the presentation of Secret Storyi in 2014, to join D8 in the animation of the New star. From 2016 to 2023, he distinguished himself as a columnist in Do not touch My TV by Cyril Hanouna, and became one of the mainstays of the show. However, he leaves it at the start of the 2023 school year, to devote himself to the theater.