Antoine de Maximy Reflects on 20 Years of ‘I Will Sleep at Your House’ on FIGARO LIVE

2023-11-01 17:00:00

FIGARO LIVE – The television host is preparing to celebrate his 20th anniversary at the helm of the show “I will sleep at your house”. The opportunity for him to evoke some memories on the set of “Buzz TV”.

His personality, his red shirt, his remote arm camera… Everything is almost mythical regarding Antoine de Maximy and his concept “I will sleep at your place”. The show is celebrating its 20th anniversary on RMC Découverte and will broadcast, for the occasion, two episodes: one in South America, “I will sleep in Paraguay” and the other, new, filmed in France, “J ‘I’ll go and sleep with the Gauls.’ Invited on the “Buzz TV” set this Wednesday, November 1, the host who traveled the world for his shows reacted to celebrities’ comments on the current geopolitical context. More precisely on the conflict between Hamas and Israel.

After Arthur, Cyril Hanouna, Philippe Labro, Anne Sinclair or the actress Camélia Jordana in “Sept à Eight” this weekend, it is up to Antoine de Maximy to make his voice heard. “I think it’s very good that people take a stand when they have the opportunity. I am much more reserved by a certain form of cowardice”, recognizes the journalist. He fuels his argument by asserting: “if you say something on one side, you are immediately labeled as being once morest the other side”.

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“Obviously there is nothing that is clear and I think both are at fault. I don’t think there are whites and blacks but I say nothing because it’s getting into some kind of controversy that will inevitably escape me. Antoine de Maximy deplores the fact that there is no longer any nuance. “Neither nuance, nor tolerance so there you go, I’m not broaching the subject. It’s not my place somehow», admits the emblematic host in the red shirt. Yet, Israel has already been a destination for him in 2006.

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“I have good memories of it […] When I filmed my episode in Israel, what was very interesting was seeing the reaction of the people who watched the episode.” Indeed, some think that the filming went particularly badly because they stuck with the idea that corresponded with what they thought. Antoine de Maximy says: “I went to a Kibbutz. The guy was ultra-religious but he wasn’t in uniform because he considered that it wasn’t written in the Torah and I was received very peacefully”. He then qualifies by revealing that others in Jerusalem did not wish to speak to him on the pretext that he was French and therefore “ once morest the war in Iraq”.

The host did not visit the Gaza Strip at the time and explains that he had difficulty determining where he should stop filming. “For example, I have a real regret with Jerusalem and I think that’with RMC Découverte, we’re going to do augmented episodes one of these days”he says before detailing that he went to the east side of the city. “I had a great streak because I was going from a luxurious place to a souk which was really the Arab countries […] At the same time, people came to tell me that we should not talk regarding freedom in East Jerusalem, that there is none, etc.”

This moment does not appear in any of Antoine de Maximy’s broadcasts. And for good reason. “I didn’t put it on because I told myself I wasn’t really in Israel anymore. And I regret it because in one minute, you understood these two populations who live side by side and who are – at the time – in latent war. The host of RMC Découverte has a second regret: that of not having filmed, at the same time, in Palestine.

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