INTERVIEW
He is perhaps the only television journalist to have a haircut with clean contours and drawn during this period of confinement. Guest of Europe 1 Thursday, the host of "Questions for a champion" on France 3, Samuel Etienne, said, a bit of a lump, not to be affected by the closure of hairdressers: "It's been twenty years that I cut hair on my own has changed nothing for me. "
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Answering Matthieu Belliard's questions, Samuel Etienne explains that this craze took him after a small accident at the home of a slightly distracted young hairdresser: "[He gave me] a scissor blow on a top of the ear ". If, by the journalist's own admission, "we are very far from Van Gogh", the mishap has its little effect.
Not enough to arouse a vocation
Very quickly, Samuel Etienne bought a clipper and set out to become his own hairdresser. "At first there were failures," he concedes, referring to the few holes that may have appeared, from time to time, on his neck. "Gradually, I started to master the trick. A friend's hairdresser gave me real scissors [...] I went around the ears." The practice has thus become a ritual: every two weeks, the activity leader spends "a little mower stroke" in his bathroom.
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Not enough, unfortunately, to arouse a vocation. "My expertise is limited to my head," laughs Samuel Etienne, who adds: "My oldest son is starting to have long hair. It's a real family debate. Do I go after his curls?"