Thierry Ardisson may have been one of the main figures of the PAF for years, the profession of animator is not the one he dreamed of exercising! When he was younger, he intended for a completely different career than he finally left out …
Thierry Ardisson has become the man in black on television. Since the 1980s, the host has been well known to French viewers and his programs, such as Everyone talks about itmarked the PAF. But did you know that he dreamed of exercising a completely different job, that he finally left out?
Thierry Ardisson, this job he abandoned: “I did not have the courage …”
Thierry Ardisson, who takes out his book The man in black This May 14, has had a prolific career on television. But the ex-presenter of Hi Terriens dreamed of making a living … by writing books! “”I started writing at the age of 13 and published my first book ten years later “, entrusted to Parisian The one who had published his novel Cinemoi in 1972.
If he embarked on this path, he did not wish to make him his job or devote himself to this occupation, although he has released a few books during his television career. “”I did not have the courage to become a writer for fear of hungry. I preferred to advertise then TV to earn a lot of money“, he admitted.
He grew up in a relatively modest environment, raised by a household mother and a construction engineer in construction, and did everything to detach from it: “A guy like me should have been born in a rich family. I hated them. Above all, my father failed to choose between his wife and mother who settled with us“. Thierry Ardisson therefore became a designer-editor in advertising, founded his own agency in the late 1970s, then headed for television.
Thierry Ardisson, lucid in the face of death: “The day I feel the end approach …”
After leaving C8 in 2019 and the failure of his program Time Hotel On France 3 in 2023, Thierry Ardisson had more time to devote himself to his first passion, writing! In 2024, he therefore published his book The golden age of advertisingand he is now released his new work. “”My ambition, now, is to write. I am already starting to work on the following book, on the monarchy“He said.
At 76, the spouse of Audrey Crespo-Mara wishes to take advantage of the quieter years available to him. But he thinks irreparably at the end. Besides, the former animator wants his funeral to be settled long before his departure. “”I want to see death arriving opposite, not that she takes me by surprise. The day I feel the end approaching, I will decide all the details for my burial“, He detailed.
