By Lucie Gosselin | Editor
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If she is not the sporting revelation of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, Daphné Bürki is one of the artistic revelations. The host, director of “styling and costumes” for the four Paris 2024 ceremonies, is gaining credibility and notoriety, after several years spent in the closet. With “Le Parisien”, she looks back on her great career at Canal+ and France 2, and returns to the rumors of tensions with Michel Denisot.
Daphné Bürki and Michel Denisot, a complicated relationship? Clarification on the supposed “bad atmosphere” between the two TV stars
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A presenter for over twenty years, Daphné Bürki’s career has been anything but smooth sailing. While Harry Roselmack, for example, presents the magazine Seven to Eight for eighteen years, or that Cyril Hanouna embodies Don’t touch my post For fourteen years, Daphné Bürki, she, cannot boast of having remained the host of the same program for very long. After starting out as a columnist for We are not angels by Maïtena Biraben, she left him for Bruce Toussaint, and his morning show, for three seasons again. She follows him on The special editionfor four seasons, then finally on Everyone is beautiful, everyone is niceover a short year.
In parallel, she learned her trade as an animatorand hosted the magazine for a year 26 minutes of fameIn 2011, she joined the public service, where she was entrusted with the reins of Kindergartenssucceeding Maïtena Biraben, Karine Le Marchand and Elizabeth Tchoungui. But again, she only stayed there for a year, just like It’s up to youwhere she is Alessandra Sublet’s joker for one season only. She chooses to return to her first loves, and returns to Canal+, to co-host The Grand Journal with Michel Denisot… for one season only. She then hosted The Tube for three seasons, then The New Edition for three more seasons, which sealed his departure for France 2. For 4 years, she hosts the magazine I love you, etc.Then Prodigies in 2018, and some unit entertainment…
Will the Olympic Games revive it?
But for several years, the host has been confined to co-host the Culturebox channel with Raphäl Yemand to be sworn in Drag Race France… Will she ever return to host a TV show? Her successful involvement in the artistic coverage of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, alongside Thomas Jolly, could change the situation and allow her to see her career take a new turn. This is all the harm that Thierry Ardisson wishes for her, who at one time wanted to entrust her with the reins of Paris Last : “Personally, I would have given her a second part of the evening on France 2. She is made for that. Maybe not a talk show because she is not a journalist and mainstream enough, but a show of her own, with lots of sections, funny stuff… She can talk about fashion, cinema, tourism… If the public service decides to redo knowledge content, she has her place.” he argues Parisian.
An opinion shared by Michel Denisot, that she attended during her last season at Grand Journalbetween 2013 and 2014, before he took over as editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair. But at the time, the media were inflamed about their collaboration, and assured that it was very complicated. Worse still, some went further, claiming that Canal+ had favored Daphné Bürki over Michel Denisot, thus sealing the fate of the emblematic journalist of the encrypted channel. Ten years later, the two parties concerned respondand dismantle all the rumors that hurt them at the time, and which were not without consequences…
The shooting in Cannes, Denisot strongly supported it
“Whatever. We spent more time in the office than in our personal lives, so There was definitely a pleasure in working together. These papers amused us, even if Daphne wondered above all how one could think that.” explains the journalist, while his colleague considers that she was one of the first female TV presenters victims of cyberbullying on Twitter (the social network was emerging at the time): “I discovered the misogyny of the comments and the beginnings of cyberbullying.” But Daphné Bürki experienced a real earthquake when the magazine The Inrocks saw fit to mock the shooting that took place in Cannes, on the sidelines of the filming of the Grand Journal.
“After the shooting (where an unbalanced person fired without causing any casualties during a live broadcast), Les Inrocks wrote a harsh article about me, caricaturing myself as a chicken and saying, basically, that the shooter should have aimed better“ remembers the one who recently faced the death of her partner David Hache. Fortunately, in this ordeal, Michel Denisot, perceived by many media as her sworn enemy, was a great support to her: “(The journalist (told) me that it was more interesting to write about me because I had more rough edges. I remember hanging up in tears. Michel had also called me to tell me he was sorry and didn’t understand.” Angry, you said?
