Guest of Media cultureon Europe 1, this Friday September 29, 2023, Mireille Dumas returned to the unexplained cessation of her show Private life, public life, in 2011.
Mireille Dumas will never have had the end of the story… The famous presenter was received in Media culture on Europe 1, this Friday, September 29, 2023. She promoted the anthology of her famous confessional interviews with the biggest stars, which will be broadcast by France 3 this evening. This issue is dedicated to artists and family. The opportunity also for Thomas Isle to question her guest about her memories of the years when she presented the show Private life, public life, with the success we know. But the journalist also recalled that the show ended in 2011, after more than 210 episodes…
Mireille Dumas still in doubt about stopping Private life, public life
And it seems that Mireille Dumas never got the truth about the motivations of the management at the time. “I don’t know the damn thing!“she blurted out to her interviewer, who was surprised to say the least: “It’s not possible, we must have told you something, the audiences were less good…“, he repeated, but the 70-year-old producer insisted: “Oh no, no, no. It didn’t come from me. You know, you don’t own your place. Private life, public life had gone weekly for the last three years. And then, I think they wanted to put someone on the air on this second part of the evening. So they thanked me“, she recalled before admitting that the end of her show had convinced her to stop watching television in front of the camera: “I decided at that moment to really stop broadcasting, permanently. I told myself that I didn’t want to relive these stops again… I had always said that after the air I would go back to documentaries, that’s what I’ve done since 2011“, she concluded.
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Mireille Dumas replaced by Cyril Viguier on France 3
The famous person that the bosses of France 3 at the time wanted to see in his place was Cyril Viguier, as Thomas Isle pointed out. And, in fact, it is the host who inherited the second part of the evening slot with the program Friday on a set, in which he interviewed personalities. A meeting which failed to find its audience, forcing the channel to end the show after only ten issues.
