Christophe Dechavanne is today Léa Salamé’s columnist in Quelle Époque on France 2. But before getting there, he participated in numerous programs on TF1, where he spent most of his career. If he is known for having presented The Wheel of Fortune or The Celebrity Farm, he especially made an impression with Ciel mon Mardi and Coucou, c’est nous in the 1990s. In the latter, he dealt with subjects of news with his lifelong friend, Patrice Carmouze.
A live accident
In Coucou, c’est nous, Christophe Dechavanne and Patrice Carmouze liked to have fun with new things. Guest this Wednesday January 24 on C à Vous, Christophe Dechavanne returned to a sequence which marked the show, the one in which he tested spring shoes. The host, who wore a helmet and glasses, appeared very comfortable with these new shoes before making an impressive fall down the stairs live. The ad was then launched in a hurry. “On the way back, Patrice stammers, he’s not well,” confides Christophe Dechavanne who remembers this intense moment. However, he recalls the date of this show: April 1, 1993. The person who fell down the stairs was actually a stuntman, the host wanted to play a joke on the audience.
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Christophe Dechavanne goes behind the scenes of this sequence
The host had actually prepared this accident, he explains on the set of C à vous. “So, I say to Patrice, who takes two hours to follow me, I say, we have to go that way. Once I go off-camera, I stay there, I had given one of my suits to the stuntman who was about my build, but wider. And he goes and I go on the microphone: ‘uh, uh’, when the guy climbs and when he falls, I go ‘um, uh, uh, oh'”, says the father of the family. Of course, everyone believed it, whether on the set or the viewers in front of their screen. Jean Carmet, present on the set, insulted Christophe Dechavanne: “He called me a bastard”. This sequence very frightened those close to the host. “Afterwards, people yelled at me,” he remembers while affirming that he still finds it very funny.
