Its character is striking in the middle of an audiovisual landscape sometimes sanitized. Valérie Damidot, guest of Philippe Vandel in the program Culture Media on Europe 1, recognizes that the image of "big mouth", of girl "unmanageable", sticks him still with the skin. "In television, you have to be a little smoother, you must not open your mouth, do not say what you think," exasperated the presenter TF1. "I work too much in feelings and empathy, so I put too much of myself."
"Not made for TV"
With this in mind, Valérie Damidot thinks she does not have "enough perspective" to do the job that she "likes anyway". "Even if you can keep your character, I think I'm not made for TV", admits the one that was revealed in 2006 on M6 with D & CO , a show "human" where she says to have been "painarde".
The presenter, who had been shouting at beauty standards and diets of thinness over the summer, admits that being overweight on TV can sometimes be "complicated". "I did not lose a job because of my weight, but I did not win," says Valérie Damidot. "It's already complicated to be a 50-year-old woman on TV, so when you're old and you're plump, do the voice-over of The Secret Life of Cats, " laughs Valerie Damidot
Season 3 of the Secret Life of the Cats
Currently aired on TF1, the third season of this format, adapted from a BBC show in England, "shows what the parents of these animals never see," says the narrator. New this year, celebrities, like Jeanfi Janssens or Patrick Dupont, have accepted to play, allowing them to follow their cats with a GPS tracker. Starting with Valérie Damidot, owner of a cat with the sweet name of "Micheline". The presenter has for example discovered that his dog, "this kind of little hypocrite" who pretends not to be interested in the cat, "comes to wake up Micheline at night" to force him to play with her. An episode of The secret life of cats to discover soon.