Nelson Monfort and Philippe Candeloro commentated on figure skating for 20 years together. The sports journalist returned to the legendary stinginess of his sidekick on “RTL”.
For 20 years, Nelson Monfort and Philippe Candeloro commentated on figure skating on television. This duo caused a lot of laughter between the slightly stuck side of Nelson and the totally unbridled side of Philippe. And in fact, they both find themselves at the theater for a play, a detective comedy, Skating in Tokyo, which they will start the tour in November. Guests of RTL, the sports commentator made fun of the legendary avarice of his friend which would be false, according to him.
Philippe Candeloro stingy? “I swear I don’t.”
According to Nelson Monfort, the penny-pinching side of Philippe Candeloro is completely unfounded. “You know Philippe, he pretends to be someone very close to his money, but that’s not true at all” he said. And when Thomas Sotto, surprised by this revelation, asked for confirmation, the presenter defended his friend. “I swear to you no. It’s his image etc..”
He then allowed himself a touch of humor when the morning worker asked him what was the last gift that the Olympic medalist skater would have given him to prove his generosity. “It was in 2003, he bought me a coke at a motorway rest area and we shared it” he said, smiling and causing laughter from everyone around the table.
In 2013, in The morningthe skater declared that he wanted to earn 150,000 euros per year with his various contracts and denied the rumor: “This is bullshit. I’m not stingy, I’m thrifty.”
Why are Nelson Monfort and Philippe Candeloro replaced in figure skating?
This legendary duo hands over to a trio to comment on figure skating: former skater Nathalie Péchalat, sports journalist Marie-Christelle Maury and consultant and coach Annick Dumont. The 71-year-old sports journalist said what he thought about it on Europe 1: “How can I put it… Obviously, I’m not going to tell you that I’m jumping for joy, but at the same time, it seems quite normal to me that pages turn and others open.”
However, he is happy to stay in “the same house” since he joins the team around Michel Drucker. And what about Philippe Candeloro? “I wanted to continue even if I was a little skeptical about who was going to replace Nelson. I was keen to go to Milan in 2026, since I started commentating in Turin in 2006. France Télé decided otherwise. he declared frankly in Tele-Leisure.
