Prolonged absence for Michel Drucker. According to our information, the host, 80 years old, was released from the hospital this Sunday, February 26. He had been admitted there at the beginning of the month for check-ups in connection with his very heavy heart operation in 2020. While his stay was only supposed to last a week, he finally stretched out to nearly three. The fault with the discovery by the doctors of elements of recidivism having required care during a fortnight.
“Michael is fine. He returned home, reassures Stéphane Sitbon-Gomez, director of antennas and programs for France Télévisions. He needs to rest after these trying weeks of hospitalization. But he is already actively preparing his return. »
On television, this will not take place in March as initially planned, but rather in mid-April. In the meantime, France 3 will continue to offer rebroadcast numbers of “Vivement dimanche” or retransmissions of long-planned cycling races. Among them, the tour of Flanders or Paris/Roubaix.
This convalescence will also delay the return of Michel Drucker on stage. His autobiographical show, “From you to me”, in which he converses with his double from the 1970s, should not return until next September.
“I came close to disaster”, he told us after his operation
In 2020, Michel Drucker had been hospitalized for almost three months in Paris following serious health problems. First for an infective endocarditis, then for a triple bypass and finally the infection of his scar. In particular, he had been operated on for nearly eight hours, as he told us in November of the same year. “My heart was stopped for a few hours and hooked up to a machine. There, I realized that I had come close to disaster, ”he confided at the time.
“Miraculous”, Michel Drucker had returned to the air in March 2021, after seven months of absence. Since last September, he has been at the head of a new version of “Vivement dimanche”, offered on France 3 every weekend. Last December, the host also told on the same channel the decade “Champs-Élysées”, his cult variety show broadcast from 1982 to 1990 on Antenne 2 (now France 2). The first part of this documentary was followed by 2 million viewers, against 1.7 million for the second.
