Thierry Ardisson, who died Monday at 76, “left instructions” to his relatives to organize his funeral, told AFP the entourage of the animator and producer, who had discussed the subject several times in the press.
“The day I feel the end approaching, I will decide on all the details for my burial,” said this figure of the TV in the newspaper Le Parisien, during the release in May in his testament book, “the man in black”.
“I would like the three women I married be there,” said Le Point Thierry Ardisson magazine, married to TF1 journalist Audrey Crespo-Mara since 2014.
“I want incense, choir children … The total! I already have all the playlist in mind,” he added to the weekly, citing David Bowie.
“It was not words in the air” and “he left instructions,” confirmed those around him to AFP on Monday.
The details were not communicated at this stage.
He had also chosen to reveal himself in a documentary directed by his wife, “the hidden face of the man in black”, which will be broadcast on TF1 on Wednesday at 10:50 p.m.
Personality to the freedom of your claimed, a TV man for four decades, Thierry Ardisson died in Paris on Monday from liver cancer, his wife and children announced in a statement to AFP.
Always all dressed in black-which earned him his nickname-and an eternal smile on his lips, he jostled the French audiovisual landscape with his talk-shows where the all-Paris was going, as “midnight baths”, presented from the nightclub of the Baths Showers in Paris, “Everyone speaks about it”, “93, Faubourg Saint-Honoré”.
His cash or even intrusive interviews, as is his sense of formula, established his character: cathodic genius for his admirers, arrogating Parisianist for his contemptors, Thierry Ardisson did not leave indifferent.
With “a spirit tinged with curiosity and irreverence”, he “helped write the history of French television”, said the Elysée in a press release.
