Thierry Ardisson never had his tongue in his pocket. At 76, the iconic animator publishes his memoirs The man in black (ed. Plon), in which he delivers an uncompromising story of his career and his relations, in particular that with Laurent Baffie. Interviewed this May 4 by The Sunday Tribunethe beloved of Audrey Crespo-Mara evokes his ex-acolyte with a certain bitterness.
Thierry Ardisson in freewheel: “He does not have to apologize”
“He was taking 10,000 bullets per week and today he spit in the soup saying that we were stupid and macho!“, He begins by letting go of our colleagues, visibly annoyed. The cloth has been burning since Laurent Baffie expressed his regrets on their flagship program Everyone talks about it, affirming in What an era! On France 2, April 12: “You have to apologize when you make mistakes. There are things that make me ashamed.”
Declarations that Thierry Ardisson does not digest. “First, he doesn’t have to apologize. He must ask the offended people to excuse himhe insists. “”I called him after her visit to youhe had entrusted to France Inter, by addressing Léa Salamé. I said to him: ‘It is already necessary to teach you to speak French!’ “
-“Me, I was neither stupid nor macho. He, maybe!”
In his always sharp style, Thierry Ardisson takes care to dissociate himself from the words of his former accomplice. “I was neither stupid nor macho. He, maybe!”, he said. A clear way to recall that the drifts of the time are not to be put on his own account. And if he recognizes that Everyone talks about it included his share of provocation, the latter today refuses to be “cancellisal”. “We want to make me a new PPDA or Nicolas Hulot. But they found nothing. I am clean“he insists in the columns of The Sunday Tribune.
Even if he is virulent, Thierry Ardisson does not completely erase past friendship: “I like Laurent, it was a great meeting.” But it remains firm on the facts: “What I liked the least was when he said that we had ‘weak prey’. First, I never used this expression, and then it would assume that we were like rapists waiting for the jogger at the corner of the wood. Finally!”
Laurent Baffie, now 66, seems to want to make amends, evoking a past “provocateur“, but also “Sexist, macho and con“. A critical look at his own excesses, which contrasts with the assumed line of his old mentor. Thierry Ardisson, he has not changed: “I am free. I have never tried to have little sugars gave myself by the self-righteous“he concludes.
