Benjamin Castaldi publishes "I loved you so much", a book about his grandparents Yves Montand and Simone Signoret.

Invited on this occasion of "It feels good", the TV host in passing confides to Anne Roumanoff how Michel Drucker and Cyril Hanouna have, at two different times in his life, launched and relaunched his television career.

INTERVIEW

He has known the crossings of the desert.

But each time it was released by a big name in French television.

Benjamin Castaldi confides on Wednesday in

It feels good 

how Michel Drucker and Cyril Hanouna saved his career as a TV host, at two distinct moments in his life.

Benjamin Castaldi also publishes 

I have loved you so much

, a book retracing the life and career of his grandparents Yves Montand and Simone Signoret.

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"I told my life to Michel Drucker, he was laughing to death"

Benjamin Castaldi's career began on television in 1994. He was then in a very delicate financial situation.

"I had the good idea to produce a singer in Los Angeles, which cost me a little arm," he laughs today. 

In desperation, he tries to get hired as an intern on a Michel Drucker show.

"I called Michel Drucker and told him about my early life," he remembers.

"He was laughing out loud. He told me he was not looking for an intern, but rather looking for columnists."

Benjamin Castaldi is then hired in the show "Studio Gabriel" where he takes his first steps on television.

If he believes that he was not very good in his debut in this role of columnist, the TV career of Benjamin Castaldi was still launched.

Until the apotheosis of the Loft in 2001. Benjamin Castaldi successfully continued a career as an animator in various programs, until the mid-2010s. Then in open conflict with his colleague Cyril Hanouna, he left C8, where he hosted

The new star

for NJR12.

"The phone no longer rings, I have no more a ring, nothing is going"

"I made the very bad choice to go to NRJ12, to make a very good game, but that is the only real failure of my career, 'The Academy of 9'", says Benjamin Castaldi.

He then found himself unemployed, for the first time in his life.

"8 months when the phone no longer rings is weird," he recalls.

"In addition, at this time, I have no more a circle, I have lawsuits in the ass, I have the bailiffs in the ass. Nothing is going."

Finally, it is Cyril Hanouna, with whom he was angry, who offers him to join his team of columnists.

"We had insulted each other and it had been a real war of ego. But, where he was cool, it was that he could have crushed me," explains the host.

"On the contrary, he held out his hand to me. So he's more of a beautiful soul."

From there, the career of Benjamin Castaldi restarted.

For him, the reconciliation with Cyril Hanouna is not such a big surprise.

"We like each other because we are a bit the same, we have beautiful characters," he understands with a smile.