US EditionBeloved and Polemic French TV Presenter Thierry Ardisson Dies Aged 76
FRANCE, JUL 14 – Ardisson shaped French TV for nearly 40 years with provocative talk shows and AI-driven projects, drawing millions of viewers and earning national honors, President Macron said.
- On Monday 14 July, Thierry Ardisson died from liver cancer, his family told AFP, aged 76.
- Last year, President Emmanuel Macron honored Ardisson with the Medal of Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, and awarded him the Légion d’honneur in 2024.
- Despite its ambition, Hotel du Temps was short-lived, and Ardisson said it was his most invested project.
- Through an Élysée statement, President Emmanuel Macron paid tribute, saying Ardisson 'helped write the history of French television,' while French culture minister Rachida Dati praised him for capturing the spirit of the times with irreverence.
- Even after his death, Ardisson's legacy endures on YouTube, with INA Arditube drawing nearly 4 million visitors each month and he will forever remain one of the greatest figures in French broadcasting.
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The television host and producer had himself organized the announcement of his death by sending a press kit a few days before his death.
Thierry Ardisson, the host and producer, died at the age of 76. Impertinent, sometimes trash, the man in black will have marked the history of television and many of our evenings. Before being a television man, he was a man of publicity. Surprisingly, he received the Seven Golden of the best show in 2000. Fifteen years later, he won the award for the best animator, crowned by successes of audimat when the small screen was still the center of the…
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The director of Marianne pays tribute to his friend Thierry Ardisson, "an outstanding animator, a leading interviewer, a genius producer." The television man was his producer for eight years on the show "Paris Dernière". "Turking came in like a thug, all dressed in black. He was the first to lower the light, serve alcohol and make the pockets of his guests," says Frédéric Taddéi.
Guy A. Lepage paid tribute to the late French host of "Everybody talks about it", Thierry Ardisson.
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