THE TWELVE BLOWS OF NOON. Laurent’s great adventure continues in 12 strokes of noon. The champion of the TF1 game unveils a new mysterious star of which here are the first clues.
[Mis à jour le 22 février 2022 à 11h42] This Monday, Jean-Luc Reichmann had planned a nice gift for Laurent, the current master of the 12 noon shots. Knowing him to be a big fan of Jean-Patrick Capdevielle, he had him record a nice message for Laurent who, very moved, could not hold back his tears. Visibly upset, the philosophy teacher stumbled twice when faced with the masterstroke questions. However, he shares €100 with a viewer. His total prize pool reached the sum of €192,227. The mysterious star, meanwhile, is only at its first unveiled clues: an Amazonian-type river forest landscape, a photovoltaic panel. Faced with the enigma, Laurent proposed the name of actress Mélanie Laurent but without success.
- The savannah setting: reference to the universe in which Kirikou evolves.
- Colored pencils: Kirikou is the hero of cartoons.
- The pot: Kirikou makes pottery with his mother.
- The golden nugget: reference to Kirikou and the buffalo with golden horns or the witch’s jewels.
- The giraffe: reference to Kirikou and wild beasts
- The watering can: The character is used to raise funds to open wells in Madagascar.
- The fig leaf: reference to the fact that Kirikou is completely naked.
The ranking of the 12 noon shots was turned upside down by Bruno’s participation. Arriving in Jean-Luc Reichmann’s game on January November 20, 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.
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