This is a small guéguerre played out behind the scenes, and who, little by little, turns into a settling of accounts in the public square. Nothing goes between Laurent Ruquier Catherine Barma, producer history, It is not lying, as recounted in The World. For fourteen seasons, the duo has co-produced panel show broadcast on France 2 every Saturday night.

But, last April, the facilitator decided to leave the vessel by withdrawing the presentation of the talk show. After careful consideration a decision which finds its origin in the degradation of his relationship with Catherine Barma. They have more exchanged a single word since now more than three months, if not exchanges interposed between lawyers. “I find his behaviour rude, pathetic and cowardly “, glide presenter.

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His hypocrisy, his cowardice, his venality keep me from him to say thank you.

Her former producer asks him to pay a portion of the severance payments to the production company All on the screen. “Laurent is a co-producer of the show, he broke a contract, without having notified officially Catherine. However it is economically dependent on France 2. It is legitimate to ask what she asks for, ” explains a source well-placed in France Télévisions. “We earned so much money with Laurent that when I lose I find it normal that he lost with me “, is said to have thrown his side Catherine Barma to his loved ones.

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Laurent Ruquier, to him, did not budge : “She asked me to share the cost of dismissal of a staff bloated which I never asked for it to be committed, apart from three of them ! It even makes work of the members of his family, ” corrects-t-it. The facilitator has not completed its history with France 2. He would like to launch a new show in the fall. The producer, it, brandishing the threat of a lawsuit for plagiarism if the format gets too close to You is not lying. The two figures on the small screen seem irreconcilable. “At the end of these twenty years, I would have liked to be able to tell him thank you. His hypocrisy, his cowardice, his venality me prevent. If she wishes that one day justice is involved, we will pay it before the courts “, says Laurent Ruquier.