INTERVIEW
The Z'amours celebrate Valentine's Day. The daily game show, which tests couples' knowledge, celebrates lovers with the broadcast of three special programs. Thursday, Friday and Saturday, three themes will be in the spotlight: seniors, who display 30 years of life together, married couples dressed in traditional costumes and for the first time, adolescents aged between 14 and 17 years. The presenter Bruno Guillon tells behind the scenes of this new program entitled "Their love life is just beginning".
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"I remember the first love stories"
"It's something I've wanted to do for a long time, we tend to age a little too quickly, and I don't mean that I have Peter Pan syndrome, but I remember the first love stories, at 14-15, from this little flirt we have at the campsite and when we go back with our parents, we tell ourselves that our heart is broken and that it was the love of our life. This strong feeling that you can have as a teenager, I wanted to do something around that ", explains the presenter.
For the occasion the questions remained wiser. "But they are not necessarily daring," defends Bruno Guillon. "We try to tickle from time to time, but above all to make sure not to have an image below the belt."
From the start of filming, Bruno Guillon asked the angry question: the young participants did not know the program. "It makes me laugh," he smiles. "I am grounded in my generation, I do radio every morning [on Fun Radio, editor's note] with listeners who are quite young, I know that television is not the medium to which it leans first. Often , they’re discovering it online. "
Hearings that go back
The legendary game of France 2, on the air since 1995 and broadcast at 11:20 am, has experienced ups and downs in recent years. Especially after the arrival of Bruno Guillon, who replaced the animator Tex, dismissed after a sexist joke on domestic violence. Today the audience is doing better.
"The number of young viewers has increased since I presented it, which is already a success in itself," said the presenter. "My missions were that the audiences recover colors and the female gender, which had moved away from the program."
The radio and television host assumes a familiar style. "I think I am on the microphone as I am in life. I can be ranted in the show. If a candidate talks badly to his girlfriend, I would tell him, and it will not be cut." He also tells many personal anecdotes during the show. "It's the Bruno Guillon style," he jokes.