Death of Thierry Ardisson: Paris-Match publishes a photo of the host in a coffin

Thierry Ardisson lying in a coffin. However, all dressed in black, black glasses on the face, smiling and soothed. For example, This is the shock photo of Paris Match this week. However, This is not a stolen photo but a photo taken in agreement with Thierry Ardisson during his lifetime… almost. Therefore, 20 years ago.

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It was Thierry Ardisson himself who had imagined this photo death thierry ardisson: paris-match publishes in. 2005 after criticism from his detractors that he had “kill”. Friend of Jérôme Béglé. the current editorial director of Paris Match, Thierry Ardisson had asked him to publish the photo on his death. “We are in 2005, Thierry has just released ‘confessions of a baby-boomer’, his first autobiography. We are talking about photos. and he tells me ‘you know what would be very funny, if you made a photo of me in a coffin'”, said Jérôme Béglé on France 2.

For the series of photos, the funeral directors had been used. death thierry ardisson: paris-match publishes The clichés had been taken in a mortuary chamber opposite the Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris. Thierry Ardisson “was so good in the coffin that he fell asleep,” recalls Jérôme Béglé.

When choosing which photo of Thierry Ardisson to put in the front page. the journalists of Paris Match naturally thought back to this photo of the TV host. It is accompanied by the simple title: “It was Thierry Ardisson”.

The funeral of Thierry Ardisson, death of cancer Monday July 14 at 76, will be celebrated this Thursday afternoon. Many TV animators should be present.