In 2003, Bernard Montiel gave an interview on RMC where he exploded all the great personalities of TF1, the channel on which he had previously hosted "Video Gag".

Guest of It feels good, the TV presenter explains why he had at the time made this choice to shoot himself in the foot which had earned him a dismissal from the channel.

INTERVIEW

14 years old.

For 14 years, Bernard Montiel hosted on TF1 

Video gag

, a program that broadcast funny videos of gimmicks and failed jokes sent by viewers, long before the best-of on YouTube.

But the presenter left the channel in 2003, after an interview given to RMC where he spits on all the stars of TF1.

An episode of his life that he tells and explains to Anne Roumanoff in

It

feels 

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, on Europe 1. "It was great Video Gag, but I was fed up," he recalls.

"I preferred to stop violently against TF1, for other reasons as well."

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In the last days of 

Video gag

, the show no longer has an audience and Bernard Montiel no longer sees the gags.

"We just had to do launches, it was stupid," said the TV presenter.

But if he made this radio show that earned him his departure, it is above all because TF1 has, according to him, stolen a program concept.

"I was fired on purpose"

"I come up one day with my concept of a movie show. They made me hang around for six months," he says.

"In the end, they gave it to someone else, as is, with the same title and everything. I decided to send it all away."

It was following this professional disappointment that Bernard Montiel precipitated his dismissal, he says.

"I was fired on purpose, very voluntarily. I massacred everyone, it's normal that I was fired afterwards."

The TV presenter explains that he made this decision, impulsive if ever there was one, in "a bad period" of his life.

"It was the death of my father, of my dog, Faro that we saw in the broadcasts. I was terribly unhappy," he confides.

"So I was like 'What the hell are all these assholes? Fuck you!'

And I said it on the radio, and they fired me. "

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A decision by the management of TF1 that Bernard Montiel considers "normal".

"Although Etienne Mougeotte, who was president of TF1, said in his book very recently that he regretted having fired me," adds the TV presenter.

"It's very sweet that he said that. Well, he released me anyway."

The TV presenter does not regret any of his decision.

"I do not like to keep things bad, because it happens in a course," he recalls, before specifying that he still experienced his departure as a shock.

"When I was fired, it was very violent. In 2003, I suffered a lot because I had totally lost my voice. It was a shock that I could not express."

Bernard Montiel has since overcome this shock and now works for OlympiaTV.