Flavie Flament: “On the set of “Stars at home”, I saw Jean-Luc Delarue everywhere”

On February 3, 2001, Flavie Flament presented the first issue of a new program which would become cult on TF1: "Stars à domicile". This production by Reservoir Prod organizes a surprise meeting between an artist and a fan. Twenty years later, the host - who left the channel in 2009 - tells us the story of this program during two exceptional evenings which mix old sequences with other unpublished ones. The opportunity for the one who presents “D-Day” from Monday to Thursday at 8 p.m. on RTL to discuss her report on TV.

TV MAGAZINE. - Why are you returning exceptionally to TF1 to celebrate 20 years of "Stars at home"? Flavie FLAMENT. - Thirteen years have passed. TF1 has changed. I changed. During these years, I did things that I love and wanted to do for a long time. I got rich. This return is an opportunity to have fun, but I don't intellectualize it by telling myself that I'm going back to the house where I spent ten years! I've always been very attached to TF1, it's a channel that I deeply adored, and that I left because I needed to realize myself differently.

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In the past, you have said: “I left TV because I was convinced that I would no longer find fulfillment there, that I no longer had my place there.” Has your outlook changed today? I think it's TV that changed the way I look at me. Those who do it today know that I write books, which I presented for ten years “We are made to get along” on RTL. On the same station, since the start of the school year, I have presented a current affairs programme, “Jour J”. For thirteen years, I proved that I could fulfill myself in fields that resemble me, far from the variety shows that I presented.

Did you miss TV? No not at all. At the moment, I rediscover the happiness and enthusiasm of being on the air. I see the red again on the camera, I'm having fun, I like it! And at the same time, I also rediscover what could tire me at the time and which continues to tire me today: being made up, having my hair done… (Laughs.) In recent years, I have enjoyed being able to work without being transformed. In fact, when I left TF1, I needed to expand and I was trapped in an image that was too narrow for me. I am very happy to have risked myself in writing, on the radio, in philosophy, in current affairs, to have scared myself and to have succeeded in my bets.

What was your reaction when TF1 asked you to come back for this anniversary? I immediately said yes! This show is the one that appealed to me the most. It was written to measure for me by Jean-Luc Delarue, to whom I was particularly attached. “Stars at Home” brought me immeasurable joys… This is the show that people still talk to me about on the street. It would have been crazy to refuse to celebrate the 20th anniversary of this program!

What memories do you have of Jean-Luc Delarue, the show's original producer? I think of him every day when I work. He taught me almost everything. I have very strong memories of it. We talk about him constantly on set… When we shot at the Olympia, I saw him everywhere and it's as if I heard him. It was a tandem, Jean-Luc and me: I was on stage, he was behind the scenes and I had him in my earpiece. He wasn't invasive at all, but he made me happy, he supported me, he told me to have fun. I miss him a lot…

How did the filming go? It was awesome! The strength of “Stars at home” is authenticity. During these exceptional evenings, there is the desire to offer a different format from that of the time. In fact, I tell the story of the show, we look back on surprises from twenty years ago and on surprises that have never been seen before!

Who will be the ones who will play the “stars at home”? We have a dream line-up: Angèle, who was one of the show's fans, Clara Luciani, Kendji Girac, Marc Lavoine, who had already done it and who is participating again, Julien Doré, Gims, Lorie, Soprano, Amel Bent… Patrick Fiori is there too, because he was the first guest of the first broadcast, on February 3, 2001.

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Would you like to continue TV after this passage on TF1? I do things that make me happy. I have acquired this freedom. It's not always easy, but I had the freedom to say no for years to proposals that were made to me, because I had chosen to withdraw.

Just like you chose to come back to TV? Two years ago, I presented "L'Atelier" on M6, because I liked it and I really wanted to. I just recorded a prime time for M6 on autism. I'm doing "Stars at home, the return" because it was offered to me and I think it's great. But there is nothing calculated. I'm free, I don't have a contract, neither with TF1 nor with M6, so I'm exactly where I wanted to be, that is to say, doing what I want to do!

You fought for the extension of the statute of limitations for rape of minors, which went from 20 to 30 years from the majority of the victim, with the Schiappa law voted in 2018. Today, are you satisfied ? When I wrote The Consolation, it was following a personal and intimate indignation, because I could not file a complaint against the photographer David Hamilton because of the limitation periods. The fight that I carried out then was in me. I hadn't formulated it, but they entrusted it to me. Laurence Rossignol - then Minister for Families, Children and Women's Rights - asked me to lead this ministerial mission. I thought it might help the cause. Not for me, but for the following generations, those of our children. Being able to do it was a great source of fulfillment and great fatigue, because it still took me two years!

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On a personal note, is the fight still going on for you? It continues in a completely different way. When the law passed, I needed to turn the page and dedicate myself to other things. I had made this promise to my children that I would complete this mission, but I will not make it the fight of my life.

Your photos that accompany this article were taken by your 26-year-old son, Antoine. What does he manage to capture in you that another photographer does not perceive? Many things. He perceives everything, Antoine! I love working with him. First, there is an extraordinary symbolism to be photographed by my son after my drama with David Hamilton. Antoine told me he wanted to be a photographer even before he knew my story. So, somewhere, it fixes. Antoine knows how to capture the sparkle of a certain joy in my eyes. I don't pose with him. I think he just perceives who I really am.

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