At 95, Philippe Bouvard confided in TV5 Monde on his life, his meetings, his career. He also mentioned his great age and the health problems that go with it, always with spirit and humor.
For several generations, he is the unforgettable face of Big heads. Glasses placed on the nose, reading the questions of the spectators and shaken by his own laugh to the responses of the chroniclers, Philippe Bouvard held this microphone for more than 35 years. The main stage of a career started in the 1950s in the written press. In 2017, he had ended up giving way to Laurent Ruquier, still regretting that he could not continue until the end. Philippe Bouvard finally retired. Now 95 years old, he agreed to come back to his life and his career for Cyril Viguier in The Riviera magazine. An interview broadcast in part this Saturday, May 3 on TV5 Monde Europe.
“We try not to leave too early” : The gaze of Philippe Bouvard on old age
Confidences that put on a historical aspect. He thus mentioned his relations with the many presidents he has met since René Coty, whose election he followed as a very young journalist under the Fourth Republic, evoking his friendship with Nicolas Sarkozy and the tax control made to him by Valéry Giscard d’Estaing. Without forgetting his meetings with a crowd of stars, like Louis de Funès, Muriel Robin, Brigitte Bardot who has long been her “Turkish head” or Mireille Mathieu. The journalist and animator also expressed himself on a delicate subject, that of age. Always with verve and malice, but the hand sometimes trembles and with a phrasing slowed down by the weight of the years, he underlined the paradox that this represents. “Aging is something that everyone is looking for, because we try not to leave too early, but which ultimately does not bring satisfactions”did he summarize with modesty, without denying having had “A fabulous life”. He recognizes it, with age, “We lose the ball a little, that is to say the memory. We are no longer very fresh”.
“I was very rider” : Philippe Bouvard evokes his youth without complex
Spent a certain age, “There is no longer any question of running the Guilledou”, Pleasant Philippe Bouvard. An expression which he summarizes without complex as consisting of “Take advantage of his professional status to run girls”. “I was very rider”he recognizes elsewhere. This does not prevent him from paying a moving tribute to his wife and mother of his two children. “I only got married once and it’s been 71 and a half now that I am married to the same woman”he recalls. And it is always with elegance tinged with humor and spirit that it summarizes this relationship: “I cannot be bitter to have had everything and not to have given much in exchange”.
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