Michel Drucker forced to leave for a few weeks. According to our information, the star of France Télévisions is currently hospitalized in Île-de-France for a battery of medical tests. A stay in connection with his heavy heart operation of 2020, which should end at the end of the week. “We agreed with Michel that he take the time to rest after his exams. I talk to him every day and he is doing very well, ”reassures Stéphane Sitbon-Gomez, director of antennas and programs for the public audiovisual group.
As a result, “Vivement dimanche”, its weekly program now on France 3, will switch to rebroadcast this weekend and for the following two to three weeks. The 80-year-old host will also be forced to temporarily stop his only autobiographical scene, “From you to me”, in which he converses with his double from the 1970s. The show should in principle resume on March 14, with dates planned in Paris — at the Marigny studio — and in the regions.
Back on air in March 2021
In 2020, Michel Drucker had been hospitalized for almost three months in Paris following serious health problems. First for an infective endocarditis, then for a triple bypass and finally the infection of his scar. In particular, he had been operated on for almost “eight hours, with fifteen hours under anesthesia, plus resuscitation and intensive care”, as he told us in November of the same year. “My heart was stopped for a few hours and hooked up to a machine. There, I realized that I had come close to disaster, ”he confided at the time.
“Miraculous”, Michel Drucker had returned to the air in March 2021, after seven months of absence. Since September, he has been at the head of a new version of “Vivement dimanche”, offered on France 3 every weekend. Last December, the host also told on the same channel the decade “Champs-Élysées”, his cult variety show broadcast from 1982 to 1990 on Antenne 2 (now France 2). The first part of this documentary was followed by 2 million viewers, against 1.7 million for the second.