On April 8, the famous TV host blows out his 63 candles. An emblematic figure in the media, he owes his fame to many programs he has embodied during his life.
In his career, Alexandre Debanne has known everything. Beginning at the age of 20, in 1980, on FR3 Radio Center in Bourges, he became one of the emblematic hosts of NRJ radio, before moving to TF1 where he hosted Des clips dans mon 4 heures. He will then present the Multitop program on M6, before returning to the first channel to chain successes: Video Gag (1990-1996), La Roue de la fortune (1993-1994).
But after a little crossing of the desert, Alexandre Debanne decides to leave television to devote himself to his passions of travel and sports. After a first theatrical experience in Voyage de noces by Marc Camoletti, he attempted a return to television on France 3 with the game Le Kadox, present on the air from 1998 to 2000. He then turned to adventure programs on cable, for which he travels the world like a Nicolas Hulot.
Very fulfilled in his activities, Alexandre Debanne also had a love affair with Véronika Loubry at the end of the 90s. After this romance, he will however have time to become a father in 2001, with the birth of his son named Léo.
A fan of sport and thrills, Alexandre Debanne climbed Kilimanjaro, doubled Cape Horn on a jet-ski with Vincent Lagaf in particular in 2000. The former host even became French karting champion the same year. He regularly participates in various sports championships such as the Andros Trophy or the Paris-Dakar.
But the star has already risked his life. In 1996, he was the victim of a motorcycle accident. While the TF1 channel kept a place for him on his return from convalescence, Alexandre Debanne chose to draw a line under his career. “I decided to stop TV, it was not my life,” he explained in an interview with Nice-Matin. “Being part of the Laurent Boyer, Nagui, Christophe Dechavanne generation, I found myself in shows, doing things which, despite the money from notoriety, no longer satisfied me, he admitted, continuing. took no pleasure. I do not spit in the soup and do not regret anything”.
This serious accident was however a trigger for Alexandre Debanne. In 2000, he founded the first all-female raid, the Raid Amazones. A challenge where competitors must complete canoe-kayak and mountain bike races, as well as various orienteering and archery events. He declared about this raid, last October in La Dépêche: “I also started from an observation: few women participate whereas the latter, unlike men who often only play to win, are mentally armed to go at the end, to surpass themselves. They give themselves the keys to the field of possibilities. So I said to myself that an exclusively female raid must exist”.
In January 2020, the athlete took part in the Africa Eco Race, a car race from Monaco to Senegal. “This kind of adventure allows you to clear your head, to live intensely the present moment. There are two of us, there is a bivouac, mutual aid. That’s all I like”, a-t he confided in the media.
But Alexandre Debanne is not just a physical. In 2014, he was spotted at the general knowledge game Le Grand concours des Animateurs on TF1, which he won for the third time! In May 2016, he confided to the site toutatele.com his love for this show. “I think I missed two or three, but because I was traveling, he said. It’s always a pleasure to come, because there is a schoolyard atmosphere!”
Alexandre Debanne has not given up his career as an animator, however. From 2007 to 2008, he hosted Debout Les Chéries on Chérie FM, then the program Face au danger on Virgin 17 in 2009. Although the latter has withdrawn from the small screen, he remains open to any proposal. “If they want to offer me to present a game, no problem, I’m hot as embers!” he announced to Télé 7 Jours.
