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Before achieving immense success and spending years on television, this man well known to viewers lived modestly. Years which made him happy despite everything and which he remembered on Michel Drucker’s red sofa in “Vivement Dimanche” this December 29, 2029.
Patrick Sébastien looks back on his beginnings in “Vivement Dimanche” on France 3, when he lived in an 8m2 apartment, on the 6th floor without an elevator. © France 3
Yes, money helps make you happy but it is not everything. Having them along the way also helps you remember where you came from. This is the story that a famous TV man told this Sunday, December 29, 2024 on the set of
Currently promoting a new book The carnival of the ambitious published by XO éditions, looked back at the very beginning of his career, when he was just 20 years old but already had dreams in his head. Originally from Corrèze, he aspired to a life of spectacle and it was to realize his desires that he chose to leave the Province and go to Paris. But without money, it’s difficult to find decent accommodation. With the kindness and support of his mother Andrée Boutot, known as Dédée (died in 2008) as his only baggage, Patrick Sébastien believed in his dreams. And this unwavering optimism ended up paying off.
Young Patrick Sébastien had no money but a head full of dreams
“I don’t know what made me take a chance. I told myself if it doesn’t work, I’ll go back home. My mother told me the nicest thing you can say to a child, which I tell my children all the time, ‘I trust you.’ And I started in cabaret on my 21st birthday, November 14 (19)74“, he told before saying that he lived in a very small apartment which in addition to being of a tiny surface area was on a high floor without an elevator. “I lived in something… I stayed for two years in something that was 8m2, on the 6th floor without an elevator and I was really happy. I didn’t have a penny but I had everything in front of me“, confided Patrick Sébastien. He never thought he would have the incredible career he had, and yet…
Patrick Sébastien will open the smallest cabaret in the world
After having animated 21 seasons and more than 200 issues, the 71-year-old emblematic man of the PAF has a crazy new project: opening the smallest cabaret! And it is in his Lot region that he is setting up this unusual project. “Within a year, while we finish the work, I am going to set up the smallest cabaret in the world. It’s going to be called Chez Patoche, we’ll also bring people from everywhere“, explained the man who is so attached to his small village of Martel. A new project welcomed with great enthusiasm by Michel Drucker!
