With the death of Françoise Coquet, at age 83, Michel Drucker lost a whole part of his professional life. Because, since the 1970s and “Les rendez-vous du Dimanche”, she was the co-producer of all the famous host’s shows.
Questioned by “Paris Match”, Michel Drucker spoke about the death of Françoise Coquet, whom he considered his double. Like his sister: “I expected it, yes, but you never really expect that. I haven’t quite figured it out yet. I’m so sad. I saw her just eight days ago, she hadn’t eaten for a week, she was a shadow. She hadn’t spoken for almost a year – overnight she lost her speech – she couldn’t send text messages but she was aware of everything. This is the tragedy of this disease (Lewy body disease, editor’s note). Fortunately, she died at home,” explains the host of “Vivement Dimanche”.
He paid tribute to his missing accomplice: “Very elegant, very distinguished, very discreet. A great TV producer. She wanted her shows to be classy and popular. She made many artists known: Voulzy, Souchon, Cabrel made their first TV appearance with Françoise. Just like Jean-Jacques Goldman. She was the first to put Goldman in the spotlight, and he is very grateful to her. Today, I think a lot about her children, Vanessa, Anthony and her husband, Jean.
