Midi Magazine, Télé Midi 72, Midi Trente… The ex-host Danièle Gilbert made the heyday of television before being dismissed from her hit show Midi Première in 1981 when she was said to have a friendly relationship with Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, mayor of his home town and President of the Republic. “I learned it in the newspaper”, she had declared on Europe 1 and to add: “I was told that I was going to change my schedule, and then, well, well, here it is.. is the elegant way! But it didn’t bother me”. An eviction “clearly political” but “without political reason”.

Forty years after being dismissed from the air, Danièle Gilbert seems more peaceful today, even affirming that she has never been affected by this coup in her career. “I have not had depression, I am neither resentful nor bitter nor revenge because we damage ourselves (…) I do not blame anyone”, she declared in 2021 in the show C à vous.” The viewers loved you “, then told him the presenter Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine and Danièle Gilbert to answer: ” Yes, but it is higher that I was not loved ” .

After a slump, the host returned in 2004 to the reality TV show La Ferme des celebrities on TF1, playing for the Art Child association. Subsequently, she became for the first time a columnist in the program Les pieds dans le plat by Cyril Hanouna on Europe 1 before going on the road for the tour of the play Lit d’embrouilles alongside Anthony Dupray . In 2020, a change of course, Danièle Gilbert became the presenter of the Miss Elegance France beauty contest. The following year, she went on tour for Laurent Ruquier’s play Gross Chaleur. This June 19, 203, the 80-year-old star was spotted at the Majuscule Childhood gala. Discover it in photos.