An emblematic face of the PAF. Flavie Flament, who turns 49 this Sunday, July 2, is known to have spent most of her career as a host at TF1. From her beginnings in 2000 until the end of her contract with the channel in 2010, she was regularly followed by millions of French people on television.
However, Flavie Flament chose to take a long break from television for nine years. Asked in 2019 on RTL, where she officiates in her own radio show, We are made to get along, she justified herself on the reasons for her absence. “I didn’t even want to hear about it anymore, but it was a choice,” she admitted facing Eric Dussart in We redid the TV.
For the ex-wife of host Benjamin Castaldi, this media exposure has affected her a lot in her career, no longer wishing to play a role in front of the cameras for the channel. “I didn’t want to be perched on heels anymore, I didn’t want to be cut in the edit anymore and be smooth. I couldn’t find my way around, it wasn’t me anymore!”.
Today, the 40-year-old returns with new projects for the M6 group and continues to share the testimonies of listeners on radio or television. On this occasion, Planet returns to the programs hosted by Flavie Flament. Between success, nostalgia and failures, a look back at five programs that marked his career.
In the early 2000s, Flavie Flament presented the program Exclusif with Frédéric Joly on TF1. The one who succeeds Emmanuelle Gaume gives the information of the people who make the news of the moment. After one season, she leaves the program and will be replaced by Valérie Bénaïm.
The program Stars à domicile marked a generation of viewers in the 2000s. For several seasons, Flavie Flament offered famous artists the opportunity to surprise their fans in stagings and unusual situations, secretly organized by the production. The program celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2022 during a prime event on TF1.
Flavie Flament also had a reality TV break in her career. In the wave of Loft Story, she hosts the show Nice People with Arthur, where several single people from all over Europe live together in a villa on the Côte d’Azur and seek love. After a single season, the program is not renewed. A bad memory for the host. “I had not realized at all that I was going to be confronted with my own weaknesses, my own weaknesses […] I had a very, very bad experience,” she confides bitterly on RTL.
Flavie Flament is to Sagas what Nikos Aliagas (replaced by Isabelle Ithurburu) is to 50 minutes Inside. This weekly people magazine was produced under disproportionate conditions and costs, as the former host of TF1 on RTL remembers. “I remember when we were shooting Sagas and traveling around the world in mind-blowing conditions, I always said to my teams ‘it can’t last, guys! […] To say to each other ‘there, we are in Kenya, and then we would go to New York and we would end up in Miami’, no that is not possible, it is not real life”.
In 2019, Flavie Flament returned to television with L’Atelier on M6. A program adapted from the British format The Repair Shop, dedicated to the renovation of vintage objects. “I never imagined I could experience what I experienced there. I think it’s really one of my best TV experiences,” she told Planet.
