One last round and then leaves. The funeral of Thierry Ardisson, producer and star presenter who died on July 14 at 76 years of liver cancer, is celebrated this Thursday, July 17 in Paris, in front of a guest help to put their favorite color, The Black. Until the end, the strong man of the PAF who knew the ropes of the media so well, will have staged his departure and controlled his precious image as much as possible.
The ceremony will take place at 4:30 pm in the Saint-Rock Church in Paris, the parish of the artists who already welcomed the funeral of many personalities of the world of culture, in the presence of guests only, and will be followed by “funeral in the most strict intimacy,” his family told AFP.
On the original invitation card sent by his wife Audrey Crespo-Mara and their respective children, their relatives are asked to respect the “Ardisson clothing code (with or without dark glasses).”
“Roch never dies”
“Dear friends, dear enemies, the last nights! We find saying goodbye to the black man,” he also mentions the Rockn’rololl invitation card, marked “Roch never dies”, note to the parish of the first district and promise of an eclectic soundtrack in his image.
“I want incense, choir children … the total! I already have the entire playlist in mind. I want us to listen Lazarus By David Bowie and In my life Beatles taken by Sean Connery, said to the point in the end of May. “I have always organized everything (…), I am interested in going to the end,” he said in the set of Léa Salamé in France 2.
The small screen show since the 1980s also wanted the three women with whom they married were present at the burial, namely Christiane Bergogon, Béatrice Loustalan, the mother of her three children Ninon, Manon and Gaston, and Audrey Crespo-Mara, her wife since 2014. He hoped they are surrounded by their relatives and their “friends.”
“I don’t think we fill an entire church with people who will come to sing my praises!” He added in an impulse of false modesty.
The day before, tonight on July 16, the documentary The hidden side of man in blackWritten and directed by Audrey Crespo-Mara, it was broadcast on TF1, showing man with a new light, sometimes in a hospital bed, naked, often tormented and vulnerable.
Taxes and controversy
The announcement of his death aroused a rain of taxes, from President Macron to the chain leaders, including many PAF figures, such as Léa Salamé, Arthur, Cyril Hanuna or Karine Le Marchand.
But the extracts of the programs where he had bothers his guests, such as Judith Godrèche or actresses of Milla Jovovich, were also exhumed and transmitted. If Laurent Baffie, his acolyte, made a recent mea guilt, Thierry Ardisson preferred to assume. “It was neither stupid nor macho, we were in time” and “the time changed,” was sweeping in May in France Inter.
Coming from a modest social history, the former advertiser has shaken the Cathodic Landscape with his successful interview programs where the All-Paris was going, such as “Baths Midnight Baths”, presented from the Boins Duchas Night Club in Paris, “Black Gorras for White Nights” in the palace and “Rive/Rive Rive Rive France.
He has known his best hours with Everyone talks about that In France 2 (1998-2006), where their questions to artists and politicians, sometimes garbage, have often created the hum. Thierry Ardisson then went to the controls of Hello Terriens (2006-2019), on Canal+ then C8, which had to stop after refusing to reduce the budget.
So obsessed with later, the veteran had briefly returned in 2022 with Time hotel In France 3, where he questioned deceased stars whose faces and voices were recreated thanks to new technologies.
“Wherever I go, I hope to find Denise Glaser and François Chalais (former television figures, editor’s note), John Lennon and George Harrison (Des Beatles), Paul Morand and Alain Pacadis (authors),” said Ardisson in Paris in a “interview of the last installment” in 2005.
Source: BFM TV
