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Journalist, host and former president of PSG, Michel Denisot has a long career behind him. For Brut, he shares five anecdotes that marked him.
If some remember him as the former president of PSG from 1991 to 1998, Michel Denisot is, above all, a journalist. Present on television, he remembers in particular two anecdotes on the sets. Then presenter of the information and entertainment program Le Grand Journal, he explains the annoyance “legit” by Martine Aubry, current mayor of Lille since 2001. “We wanted to mix genres too much”. During this interview, Michaël Youn, “extravagantly dressed as a woman”, sat next to her. A situation that Martine Aubry experienced badly. “She was right because she was coming there to talk about something and the proximity meant that what she was saying was not heard properly”. An anecdote “instructive” for Michel Denisot, who will have served him for the rest of the show, according to him.
But Martine Aubry is not the only one to have clashed with the journalist on the sets. Jean-Luc Mélenchon is also one of them. “He pulled out a sentence in Latin and gestured like I didn’t understand anything.”. The journalist takes this gesture badly, which he considers contemptuous: “I told him, we got mad and he told me he wouldn’t come back”. After six months of absence from the politician on the set, they have lunch together. “We did a bit of tweaking. And we had at least one thing in common, it’s that we were both altar boys”.
His PSG years
At the head of the presidency of PSG from 1991 to 1998, he remembers the evenings after winning the big European cup matches. The police, then come for night noise, had finally escorted the team to their final destination, the box, at Jean-Roch. “I experienced the same thing in Cannes when I invited Ronaldo. And the same, we had an evening where we only moved in police cars because it was crowded everywhere. It was hell”.
His meeting with the Dalai Lama, his interview with Prince… Discover other anecdotes in the rest of the video.
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