He has not yet said his last word, but it is soon. This Saturday evening, Jean-Pierre Foucault will pass as a bonus, on TF1, the chair of conductor of the show "Who wants to earn millions". Just before this transmission, he was the guest of the show La table des bons vivants , to also reveal kitchen.
Passage of relays. According to him, the animator started on radio by winning a competition organized by Radio Monte-Carlo. Since then, and for fifty years now, he has not left the French audiovisual scene, to the rhythm of programs such as Sacred Evening , Intervilles , the presentation of the Miss France election or Who wants to earn millions, since 2000. He will hand over the reins of the game this Saturday night to the new darling of the first channel, Camille Combal.
"Guy Lux handed me over and I thought it was time for me to hand over some of my activities, especially Who wants to earn millions who was dormant for three years, when TF1 told me 'we take it back', I said no (...) If you want, I make you one last and I pass the baton.
At the water's edge. The proposed concept allows him, with Camille Combal, to complete the loop. "Tonight, he is my last candidate and next week, I will be his first candidate," says Jean-Pierre Foucault, who also confesses not to live often in Paris and return "as often as possible" at home "at the edge water in Carry-le-Rouet "next to Marseille. The perfect place for this bon vivant, fish lover. "The little mullet in foil, seven minutes in the oven with a small drop of olive oil, there is no better", he slips, while also admitting a penchant for garlic curl and all kinds of ... soups.
The bon bons quiz
To get to know him better on the fork side, the animator went on the grill of Laurent Mariotte's questions:
-The taste of your childhood?
"That's what my aunt or mother did to me: old-fashioned veal stew or stuffed cabbage."
-Your most beautiful meal?
"It was the last meal where the whole family was reunited, at Christmas 1961, because my father left us in February 1962, alas, it is a meal that I remember, I still feel the kitchen of my aunt, who was, on the other hand, a cook in the house and who, from time to time, came to cook with us. "
-Your worst meal?
"Going to Marrakech for New Year's Day. I was quite by chance sitting next to a girlfriend (on the plane, Ed.) Pass the cart, I said 'You want to eat something "We look at the menu and we each took a croque-monsieur This is the first time I ate a croque-monsieur cardboard!"
-The dish that you can not eat?
"There is not, unfortunately it's my big fault, I eat absolutely everything."
-Your favorite word in the kitchen?
"Again."
-What are the guests of your ideal dinner?
"My family, my family and my friends, a dinner, it is shared, one day, with friends who were dear to me and who are a little less now, a 1947 White Horse, my year of birth. I served, there was one who drank, I thought, 'He'll tell me something about wine.' Nothing at all."
-What dish would you take on a desert island?
"Not a dish, a lighter and a hook, around the deserted island there is an exceptional pantry called the ocean, you can make either mullet or bouillabaisse, whatever you want. "
-What is your secret address?
"At home."
-What is the last dish you cooked?
"A soup with a big fish, in Morocco I had a bar that was over three pounds, it was very good."
-The word of FAIM?
"Thanks Laurent, come quickly to the house to make me to eat."