REACTION
Some six million baby-goers from the years 1980-1990 are mourning today. Ariane Carletti, co-host of Club Dorothée , died Tuesday at the age of 61, following a cancer. Philippe Vandel's guests on Thursday in Culture Médias sur Europe 1, Jean-Luc Azoulay, producer of the famous youth show, and Jacky, another troublemaker of the Dorothée band, paid tribute to him.
"She was an extraordinary woman, Ariane had a very difficult role, she was Dorothea's second, but she existed, she supported Dorothea, she supported us all," recalls the co-founder of AB Productions. "She made us laugh, she had a dynamism, a creativity, a talent not possible, it was someone who was always present," he says. "We lost Corbier [another member of Club Dorothée , ed ] a year ago, losing Ariane now ... it's terrible."
Animator, actress, but also singer, Ariane Carlotti was notably the interpreter of one of the most popular cartoon generals of the 1980s: Dragon Ball Z. Another string to his bow: that of producer. "It was with her that I launched The Mysteries of Love, she was my main collaborator on that," explains Jean-Luc Azoulay. "When we lived for 30 years with someone, we have so many memories ... We did everything with Ariane, we were really a family, a group."
"We were on the air every day"
It is also a member of his family that has the feeling of losing Jacky. "Ariane was really a friend, we saw each other outside the trays, we had dinner, we had lunch together, we were very close," he says. A proximity favored by the extraordinary pace imposed by Club Dorothée's recordings: 10 seasons on the air, with between 20 and 40 hours of program per week. "We were on the air every day, on Wednesday we had 6 hours of live!" Says Jacky.
For her part, Dorothée, the host of the program, reacted to the disappearance of her collaborator and friend by a few lines sent to the Parisian : "I will keep in mind all these years of complicity, emotions, tenderness, great moments and adventures together, "she wrote. Jean-Luc Azoulay explains that Dorothée, whom he had on the phone, was still too upset by the death of Ariane Carletti to be able to speak directly.