This Saturday, September 30, in Indeed on France 2, Ali Rebeihi and Agathe Lecaron received Philippe Gougler. The presenter of the show Trains like no other, recounted a most sickening travel memory.
Since 2011, Philippe Gougler has been at the helm of the France 5 travel show Trains like no other. A program in which the journalist can go very far. “I saw you this summer eating spiders. You are so empathetic that you go that far”Ali Rebeihi told him this Saturday, September 30 on the set of Indeed on France 2. The presenter of the escape show then told an unappetizing anecdote. “Sometimes people make jokes to me. I have a memory in Ecuador of people who cultivate beetle larvae because they eat them, it’s a source of protein”he began to say.
The disgusting joke that Philippe Gougler was the victim of while traveling
“A big larva, it’s ugly with a head, with hooks, it’s really not pretty. They grow them in palm trees that they previously cut down.”specified Philippe Gougler. “We go into the jungle, we open the palm trees, we come across the larvae, and there they tell me: ‘Go ahead, taste it!‘ And I see the beast with its big fangs, I say to myself: ‘I’m not going to eat this beast, it’s going to bite me’“recounted the 58-year-old globetrotter. “In the end, he said to me: ‘Okay, I’ll rip the head off.’ There’s something yellow dripping. And to please him I eat it, and there he says to me: ‘It’s best eaten cooked!’“, he concluded. The story of a horrible joke which made Agathe Lecaron and all of her columnists laugh a lot on the set of Indeed.
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The incredible success of Philippe Gougler’s show Trains like no other
This type of joke does not slow down Philippe Gougler who still seems as passionate about his travel show. He is not the only one. Last July, the episode on South Australia allowed France 5 to come close to 10% audience share, a record. “It always goes up a little, slowly, from year to year”he then rejoiced with 20 minutes. “People feel that it’s a show whose goal is to meet people in the simplest way possible, in a very caring way”, added the presenter. Before concluding : “I hope that Trains like no other gives people a taste for the other. I think that’s all that contributes to success.”
Article written in collaboration with 6Medias
