Alexis Patri 2:00 p.m., June 12, 2022

It is thanks to an atypical job behind the scenes of Fort Boyard that Cyril Féraud was able to make his debut as a TV presenter on Disney Channel, the channel that revealed him.

An astonishing trajectory that he details on Sunday at the microphone of Isabelle Morizet in the program "There is not just one life in life".

INTERVIEW

It was Disney Channel that made him a TV host.

But, for Cyril Féraud, it all started with emails he sent to the production of Fort Boyard.

A professional trajectory that he explains with humor on Sunday at the microphone of Isabelle Morizet, on the occasion of his invitation to the

program There is no life

.

In these messages, the future animator proposed to the teams of Fort Boyard new tests.

"I called them to yell at them!"

he jokes at the microphone of Europe 1. "I was fourteen or fifteen years old, and I was passionate about this game. I had managed to nab the email address of the CEO of the company and I started to email him."

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"This event is great, this one sucks, an obstacle should be added in this other, this one does not last long enough", remembers having written Cyril Féraud.

After a while, amused by the emails he was receiving, the CEO had his secretary call him to set up an appointment.

"I lived in Digne-les-Bains. We went back and forth with my parents to Paris, where I had gone once in my life, to meet him", he explains to our microphone. .

"This boss, who was called Denis Mermet at the time, offered me my first internship on TV, on Fort Boyard."

A cast from the return boat

The young Cyril Féraud then becomes a kind of "candidates' nanny" of the Fort: he is responsible for explaining the tests to them, bringing them a drink, and even reassuring them, when necessary.

And it is then that he occupies this position far from the light and the cameras that he is recruited by Disney Channel.

“It was while coming to shoot a subject behind the scenes at the fort that a Disney Channel team spotted me and told me that I had the head of an animator,” he says.

The Disney Channel journalist then asks Cyril Féraud for a photo and a CV.

"Listen, we're on the fort in the middle of the sea, I don't have a CV on me," he retorts.

"But you have a camera, you have a microphone, let's improvise something!"

It is then the boat returning from the fort that this unusual casting takes place.

"With the sound of the engine on top of that!", he recalls with a burst of laughter.

"I played the host and the journalist played the child I had to interview by telephone. And I started a fortnight later on the Disney Channel. Fairy tales are beautiful!"