France: At 80, Michel Drucker is back

After leaving the hospital after nearly two months, the 80-year-old facilitator will now undergo several weeks of rehabilitation.

Michel Drucker goes on France 3 next fall

At 80, Drucker is back. In the fall, he will return to his famous red Sunday couch, after a long interruption due to a second heart operation last March. Some would have retired, seeing it as a sign of destiny. But within days of being discharged from the hospital, he is already on his feet. “I feel like a returnee, a survivor,” he told RTL on Thursday.

Vivement Sunday’s presenter has assured that he will return to the show’s controls next September to begin “a new season”. He also said he would be at the 2024 Paris Olympics with the team from France Télévisions.

While in the hospital, the host said that “relatives came” to visit him. “Cut off from the world” without a phone, he found it a very difficult time. After leaving the health facility, Drucker will now begin the rehabilitation phase for several weeks. He said on the radio that he had “nine kilograms of muscle” to recover. A cycling enthusiast, he confessed to having already stepped back on the saddle, less than a week after his release from the hospital.

As a result of this hospitalization, the issues of his program Vivement Sunday, Sunday at midday on France 3, have been replaced by rebroadcasts. Since September 2022, this program, created in 1998, has gone from France 2 to France 3. The animator’s recent health problems have also led to the interruption of his autobiographical show, From You to Me, on display at Studio Marigny in Paris, according to Le Point.