“After this strange year, I have other desires, other projects. I keep everything I learned, everything we have experienced, all those with whom I have had the chance to work for almost 10 years. It is with emotion that I will be leaving @canalplus at the end of January ”Augustin Trapenard announced on Twitter Tuesday evening.
? After this strange year, I have other desires, other projects. I keep everything I learned, everything we have experienced, all those with whom I have had the chance to work for almost 10 years. It is with emotion that I will leave @canalplus at the end of January. pic.twitter.com/URvCsN5h8r
– Augustin Trapenard (@ATrapenard) December 29, 2020
His message was accompanied by a photo of him with the humorous cult couple Deschiens, formed by François Morel and Yolande Moreau, and launched on Canal + in the early 1990s.
For its part, the Canal + group thanked the journalist for “These ten very beautiful years”, wishing him “Full success in its new projects”. The show ” The circle “ will return soon to Canal +, indicates the group.
Turbulence zone
The departure of Augustin Trapenard comes as the Canal + group crosses a zone of turbulence due to the controversial dismissals of two of its stars, the columnist and presenter, Sébastien Thoen and the sports commentator, Stéphane Guy.
Sébastien Thoen was thanked at the end of November for having participated in a parody of a program by Pascal Praud, one of the pillars of CNews, the news channel of the Canal + group. Stéphane Guy was fired on Christmas Eve for showing his support on the air.
These layoffs caused an uproar within the group, the first representative union, + Libres, denouncing Monday the “Contempt for (their) management and (their) shareholder”, the Vivendi group owned by billionaire Vincent Bolloré, for the original values of the group built “Among others on impertinence, caricature and self-mockery”.
Asked by AFP to know if these events had weighed in his decision, Augustin Trapenard, also host of the radio show « Boomerang » on France Inter, did not follow up.
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