At first glance, this is a program like PAF has used it for several years. “Find our interviews and reports every Wednesday, Fridays and Sundays at 11 am”, can be read in description.
But in reality, Legend has freed television codes. Since 2022, this program, mainly known for its interviews, has been broadcast three times a week on YouTube. Each maintenance lasts about an hour, all in a sleek dark setting.
Anonymous and celebrities follow one another against Guillaume Pley in order to reveal the backstage of their trades, describe their lifestyle, return to their career … In total, 2,518 videos were posted on this channel for a total of 1,093,787.098 views. And This Sunday, May 4, the host receives the Minister of Justice Gérald Darmanin.
NRJ, Fun Radio … the time of “free antenna”
Legend Thus bet on the testimony and seems to have found the recipe for the buzz, skillfully concocted by the presenter Guillaume Pley. 39 years old, this columnist made his debut in the antenna of NRJ Belgium, as co -chanteator of the program Les Grandes Gueules. The same year, in 2008, he present Free radiofrom 8 p.m. to midnight, on NRJ Belgium.
The following year, he officiated on Fun Radio Belgium until January 2011. Then, Guillaume Pley returned to France and the listeners of NRJ France, but also Belgium and Switzerland will hear his voice on the 9 p.m.-mini-minuit. This program has been broadcast since August 22, 2011 from midnight to midnight, from Monday to Thursday, and from 9 p.m. to midnight on Sunday. A few months later, he became Cauet’s Joker. This collaboration with NRJ also continues on the screen.
From 2014 to 2016, he co -present with Faustine Bollaert, the program Rising Starthen in 2016 he became a columnist Do not touch my post! on C8. Chain where its program will also be broadcast Le Repley. In 2019, he launched a new program called HQ on YouTube.
Varied guests mediated or anonymous
Here is for the CV. In Legend, Guillaume Pley claims his desire to want to speak to as many people as possible with a tone against the current of traditional media. In an article of Figaro dating from 2024, the columnist says: “In Legend, We try to be correct. In many media, a police officer kills a young city, we talk about it for two weeks. A young person kills a police officer, we don’t talk about it. Here, we want to give voice to both parties“. “In five programs, I must have been able to touch all French people. I want to be able to speak to the whole nation, not only in intramural Paris,” he adds.
And in order to achieve this, Guillaume Pley does not hesitate to use the technique of sensationalism and buzz. Recently, rugby player Sébastien Chabal said in his program to be the victim of memory loss and suffer from amnesia. A few months earlier, Guillaume Pley received a member of the DGSE, or even a man who wrongly estimates that the earth is not round but flat. The subjects and guests are varied, but the method remains the same. “In the media, I find 99% of fairly hard emissions. People open more when you are benevolent,” he explained on Europe 1.
In 2024, he received Dieudonné. The extract where the one who was condemned for “provocation to discrimination, hatred or racial or religious violence”, mentioned his friendship with the humorist Élie Semoun was viral on social networks.
-And policies are not to be outdone. Nicolas Sarkozy gave him an interview of 1.5 hours. But the political questions of program or comments of the news will be very discreet there. Instead, the former President of the Republic told his private life there and distilled his principles of life and other lessons acquired throughout his career there. “He was freer than ever, he felt that I was not going to trap him. My goal is to know the human behind the politician, to know who he is behind a former president “, summed up Guillaume Pley.
Jordan Bardella or Sébastien Lecornu, Minister of the Armed Forces also bent in the exercise. And therefore Gérald Darmanin whose interview is published on Sunday, May 4, too.
Several controversies
Guillaume Pley has also triggered many controversies. In 2013, at the time animator on NRJ, he published a video where he launched the challenge of “Choper a Girl”. He kissed by will, by force or by surprise, several women.
The site Mademoizelle recalled at the time that These acts are “totally reprehensible”due to article L-222-22 of the penal code, according to which “constitutes A sexual assault any sexual attack committed with violence, constraint, threat or surprise“. Guillaume Pley had responded at the opening of his program on NRJ:” I apologize if I shocked certain people or certain sites or certain convictions etc. Here, we are really well high people so we had to update anyway. Here I saw the messages scrolling this afternoon there are some who did not like too much … I can understand here I apologize in the name of all those who have liked “.
Other charges will follow years later concerning his behavior at work. In 2023, former collaborators testified and denounced situations of moral harassment and humiliating remarks that would have been made by Guillaume Pley. “He made girls cry, like boys. I understand the hardness at work and the requirement, but there, it was extreme. Besides, no one speaks to him,” said a former colleague at Figaro.
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