While Nagui announced the return of “Intervilles” in the summer of 2025, what becomes of the program’s emblematic co-presenter, Simone Garnier?
Now aged 93, Simone Garnier does not hide her joy at soon seeing one of the game shows that made her a success return to the small screen: Intercity. Announced by Nagui for summer 2025, the show will return, without the cows. The opportunity to catch up on this great lady of TV from the 1980s.
Where lives Simone Garnier, the emblematic host ofIntercity ?
Very happy with the resumption ofIntercitySimone Garnier does not hide her disappointment at no longer seeing any cows in the game. “Even if Nagui wants to eliminate the cows, for fear that we will hurt them, I can assure you that at the time they were not suffering at all, it was rather she who was causing bruises on their hindquarters”she said in an interview with France Sunday. No matter, this will not keep the former speaker from sleeping who retired in 1991 but continues to watch television assiduously.
Widowed for almost three years after 67 years of marriage, Simone Garnier lives alone but “with kind neighbors“in his”large apartment” in the center of Lyon. Located on the seventh floor of a beautiful building not far from Les Halles, it offers him, according to the newspaper THE Parisian who encountered it in 2024, a breathtaking view of the Rhône. If she no longer has a man in her life, Simone Garnier can count on her neighbors.for an aperitif, to play rummy or scrabble.”
Simone Garnier in great shape? “I just need a cane to walk”
Despite her great age, Simone Garnier is doing relatively well and gave news of her health to France Sunday. “At 93, I’m not doing too badly! I just need a cane to walk. I hope it will last (…) I want to keep my independence as long as possible”added the main person concerned.
Simone Garnier can also count on her family, she who is the mother of two children: Olivier, a 65-year-old retired veterinarian who lives in Condrieu, and Sylvie, who at 60 works in advertising for the France Télévisions group in Paris . The one who has long been the right arm of Guy Lux and Léon Zitrone is also a happy grandmother. Her daughter had two children, Clotilde and Clément, and she is also the step-grandmother of the four children of her eldest son’s wife, all born from a first marriage.