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My meeting in Paris on the february 26th, 2003

 

Last week when I went to London with Candice, Tony said to me that he came to Paris to record a Tv show.

At once, I proposed to him to come to seek him at the station and that my mother would be used to him as driver, he accepted.

We arrived with a little advance at the station of North and that enabled us to go to locate a restaurant where there were snails in the menu.

Tony had emitted the wish to eat snails at the time of his arrival in Paris.

He arrived with Eurostar at 13h23.

We went directly to the restaurant. Tony ordered 6 snails and my mother and me some fish.

When his plate arrived in front of him, he had a glance horrified by seeing them with the shell. (he had already eaten some, but in laminated mouthfuls).

We explained to him how to make use of the grip to hold them and the special fork to leave them of the shell.

That was part of insane laughter, because each time that he tried to catch a shell with the grip, either the snail had the opening against the grip or below, or it fell. He ended up taking the shell with his fingers.

When he left it of its shell he was terrified by seeing the animal, he crunched inside end of the teeth and at once he said "I feel the leaves on which it went". I said to him it was parsley.

We explained to him that we cook them, put them off and after put them back in their shells and we add to them some garlic, parsley and butter.

He ate one of them!

Then we took again the car to go to his interview in the studios.

The team which received us was very nice. He presented me as its interpreter. I translated several sentences and they did to me many compliments for my English.

The long of the preparation (make-up) and interview was 1h15 long. I assisted to the make-up of Tony.

The topic approached was an emission of Jacques Martin in January 1995 when fans were assaulted on the scene and where the team of J Martin had been exceeded by the events.

On this video, we can see a woman with a tailor who also goes up and I always thought that she was a fan who wanted to approach them, in fact she was an assistant of Jacques Martin who was assembled on scene to try to move away the fans. She is called Antoinette, she is very nice, we talked well with her.

Tony had to say how he had felt this emission.

During the interview, we were in the control room. There were several screens of TV and we had Tony in several specimens. Tv on pink bottom, another on blue bottom and another on black bottom with the cutting of Tony in white.

He wore a red shirt and he was superb.

He made some funny stuffs before they start to film him. He must have a noise with the stomach because he said to the cameramen, it is not serious it is the snail!

When the interview started, he spoke there was a passage of the show which he had to talked on. Then again the following passage and again. Ect..

At one time of the conversation, the journalist asked to him whether fans still came to see him in England. He answered that last week, while going out to go to seek his milk, there were two of them in front his door. (He spoke about Candice and me).

When the interview finished, we are turned over with him for make-up removal.

Then it was the turn of Antoinette to comment the part where she had intervened. But we did not assisted to it.

Tony signed some autographs.

We had a little time before he has to take the train back and we made the stores with him. He wanted to pay me a superb tee-shirt but I refused because he was too expensive for me.

He bought a pretty trousers for Tracey.
The saleswoman found her attention very kind.

We took again the car to bring him at the station. We seen the Arc de Triomphe. Circulation was very dense and he had some frights (we had some frights should I say) the motor bikes who pass on the right, on the left, it is horrible. My mother does not like to drive in Paris and she prefers to drive to London, over there people respect fires and the pedestrians.

We arrived at the station with a little bit advance. We've been with Tony at the entrance of the Eurostar.

It was one day that i will never forget.

I took some pictures but not too much because I didn't wanted to annoyed him, it was an exceptional meeting and it was really a climate of friendship between us. I learned much by this meeting, Tony is a formidable boy, he is posed, reflected and I appreciate him more and more. He must be a formidable husband and an adorable dad with his daughters.

Of course, I already met Tony several times but never a long time and under these conditions. We could walked in the street without nobody recognized him and the fact of eating in front of him it was quite simply brilliant.

I spent 5 hours with him. I had wondered what we were going to be able to say to us during this day and ultimately we discussed many different subjects.

We laughed much and he said to me that he had spent an excellent day and that if he returned to Paris, he wanted my mother to be his driver.

We invited it to come to my house and he answered me that if he returned to France, it would come several days in order to come to Rheims and that it would sleep at my house.

His interview will be diffused Friday March 28 on M6 in "Les Moment de Verite".

I hope that you liked this meeting and that you will have pleasure by looking at the tv show.

 

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