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Julien Lepers “bruised”: why he no longer wants to watch “Questions for a champion”
This Friday, March 4, Julien Lepers was the guest of the program “Chez Jordan”, presented by Jordan De Luxe for “Télé-Loisirs”. The presenter returned to his unexpected departure from “Question for a champion”, before explaining why he no longer wanted to watch the program.
It was in February 2016. Julien Lepersthe iconic presenter from Question for a championleft the France 3 program to give way to Samuel Stephen. After twenty-seven years at the helm of the show, he had been abruptly fired. A hasty departure that the host did not appreciate. He even tried a trial once morest the production company. This Saturday, March 5, while he was interviewed by Jordan De Luxe for Tele-Leisure, Guillaume and Lorraine’s dad came back to this sensitive subject.
“I had with Questions for a champion thirty years of television, 99% total happiness where I worked like never before in my life. But it was a real, real, real job. And 1% really bad stuff. The completely failed, inexplicable, unexplained and ill-mannered ending“, he confided, before specifying that he did not never had an explanation regarding his dismissal. “That’s what really hurt me“, he confessed. If he bitterly regrets his eviction from France 3today, Julien Lepers seems to have moved on. “It’s been years, of course i’m recovering“, he indicated to Jordan De Luxe. “I did not kill myself. I didn’t have depression“, he insisted, saying that it did not have it either”prevented from sleeping“.
“‘Questions for a champion’ is me”
However, Julien Lepers is not”masochistic“, in his words: he “never look” the program now presented by Samuel Stephen, lest it hurt him too much. “It’s true that it touches me“, he confessed. “It’s a program that I know so well. I invented it Questions for a champion. […] Questions for a championit’s me“, added the presenter, who didn’t approve of the way he was fired. As for performance of his successor, he does not wish to comment. “I decided not to say anything. I don’t see, I don’t look. I was told the door. I took the door. Do you think I’ll watch this later? Never in life, I have something else to do“, he was annoyed.
Article written in collaboration with 6Medias.
