Benjamin Castaldi has confirmed his departure from Touche not at my post after seven years alongside Cyril Hanouna.
Seven years on C8 are coming to an end. Benjamin Castaldi announced his departure from Touche pas à mon poste, Cyril Hanouna’s show in which he had been a columnist since 2016. In an interview with Le Parisien, the host however assured that there is “no discomfort or anger “which prompted his unexpected departure. He thus claims to be “always very good friends with Cyril [Hanouna].” “I owe a lot to Cyril. He reached out to me when few people did,” he says.
But why did Benjamin Castaldi leave Touche pas à mon poste? “By mutual agreement [with Cyril Hanouna], we thought it would be nice to take a break, he says. It must be said that the 53-year-old host has other projects, a play on his family and especially his grandmother Simone Signoret, which he launches at the Théâtre de la Madeleine at the start of the school year.
Benjamin Castaldi assures that his departure from TPMP is not a farewell, “it’s a goodbye, with a lot of love.” The question arises, since the team of columnists of the Hanouna show is amputated by the departure of another columnist, Matthieu Delormeau. Conversely, Evelyne Thomas and Alex Goude join the show. But let viewers be reassured, Benjamin Castaldi has not yet definitively closed the door to the small skylight, and would also like to return to the animation of a game or entertainment.
Benjamin Castaldi Short Biography – Benjamin Castaldi was born on March 28, 1970 in Boulogne-Billancourt (France). It is not by chance that Benjamin Castaldi chooses to live in the light. This child of the ball has been rubbing shoulders with the world of cinema since childhood. Son of Jean-Pierre Castaldi and Catherine Allégret, his grandparents were a legendary film couple, Simone Signoret and her companion Yves Montand. He began his career in 1994 with Michel Drucker where he was a film columnist on the show Studio Gabriel, then on Vivement dimanche. From 1999, he became more and more present on the small screen. On TF1, he hosts Celebrities, with Carole Rousseau and Stéphane Bern.
But it is on M6 that it explodes. The 6th channel offers him to present the first reality TV show, Loft Story. This program offers him significant visibility and Benjamin is now one of those animators without whom we cannot count. M6 reiterates its confidence in him by entrusting him with the presentation of prime time but especially of The new star which he hosts for four seasons. In May 2006, he left the ship in the middle of the season for TF1. In 2007, he successfully hosted the game 1 against 100 there, took part in the launch of a new program on people, Langues de VIP, and returned to reality TV with Secret Story. He also hosted La Ferme Celebrities in June 2009. The program will not be renewed due to lack of audience. Still present on TF1, notably with Secret Story, he obtained the channel’s agreement to host an adventure program on Gulli in 2014: Tahiti Quest. He left the presentation of Secret Storyi in 2014, to join D8 in the animation of the Nouvelle star. From 2016 to 2023, he distinguished himself as a columnist in Touche pas à mon poste by Cyril Hanouna, and became one of the pillars of the show. However, he leaves it at the start of the 2023 school year, to devote himself to the theater.
