"I'm in great shape, or almost," said the iconic and unstoppable 80-year-old host, visibly emaciated and slow-spoken, in a short video message posted on Instagram.
"Thank you for your testimonies, it touched me a lot, see you in September, on the set of Studio Gabriel, on my sofa," he concluded.
His weekly show, "Vive dimanche", is filmed in Studio Gabriel (on Avenue Gabriel in Paris), which was also the name of one of his previous shows in the 90s.
Three years after a first major heart operation, Michel Drucker was hospitalized for tests in early February, which led to the interruption of his show.
While he was originally supposed to return in April, he was reoperated at the end of March.
The newspaper Le Parisien/Aujourd'hui en France had indicated on May 16 that the host had just been released from the hospital "after a stay of almost two months" and now had to "undergo a rehabilitation of several weeks".
"He already has plenty of ideas for shows for next season and he is preparing for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris," Stéphane Sitbon-Gomez, director of antennas and programs at France Télévisions, told the newspaper at the time.
Created in 1998, "Vive dimanche" has gone from France 2 to France 3 since the start of the school year in September 2022.
The health problems of the animator also led to the interruption of his autobiographical show, "De vous à moi", on the bill of Studio Marigny in Paris.
In 2020, Michel Drucker had already been hospitalized for nearly three months due to heart surgery followed by complications. He was absent from the screens for seven months and returned in March 2021.
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