“No other extract is authorized”
But that’s not all. The former advertiser had also planned a posthumous documentary. Co -manted with his wife, “the hidden face of the man in black” will already be broadcast this Wednesday evening on TF1. The TF1 journalist will reveal her Thierry, her Ardisson, the two faces of the man in black in a sort of career assessment while evoking his fight against her illness. A bit like what he had done for Gainsbourg, record a final program before the end. “”By excellent communicator, the one who has never been unanimous prefers that it is her who is responsible for signing the summary of her life “, Analysis Le Parisien.
The protocol for his funeral was had the code name “London Bridge”
Finally, we also learn from the same daily life as a “kit” addressed to the press, accompanied by validated clichés not Thierry Ardisson in person, a kind of Best of Archives (16 minutes from his cult sequences and “no other extract is authorized”, said this kit according to Le Parisien) or a list of personalities to contact to testify on him posthumously, had also been prepared and sent to the French media. “”He had planned everything in the smallest detail “. Among them? Philippe Corti, his faithful DJ and friend during his TV shows (who reacted here), the journalist Franz-Olivier Giesbert, his producer Catherine Barma, her friend and communicating Anne Meaux, her first boss (the one who brought her on television) Marie-France Brière or Laurent Baffie, his lifelong acolyte (who also reacted here). The file presented them as close friends, to call “if necessary testimonies”, as soon as AFP announces its death. Which was the case.
Without forgetting Léa Salamé, the new presenter of the 20 hours of France 2 surprises that her name is suggested in this list. “”We were not intimate, any more than with his wife. But I think he had loved our latest interviews “, she slips to the Parisian.