Frédéric Taddeï (born 5 January 1961) is a French journalist and television and radio host. Taddeï grew up in

Boulogne-Billancourt Boulogne-Billancourt (; often colloquially called simply Boulogne, until 1924 Boulogne-sur-Seine, ) is a wealthy and prestigious Communes of France, commune in the western suburbs of Paris, France, located from the Kilometre zero, centre of Paris ...

, a Parisian suburb. From 1997 to 2006, he hosted the late night programme ''Paris Dernière'' broadcast on the cable television station

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. From 2006 to 2016, Taddeï hosted the cultural talk show ''Ce soir (ou jamais !)'' first on

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and then on

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from 2013, both public television stations. From 2005 to 2011, he also hosted several radio shows on

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. Taddeï later hosted '' Interdit d'interdire'' from 2018 until 2022 on the French-language version of the Russian state-controlled television network RT, when he resigned shortly before Russia invaded Ukraine out of "loyalty towards France".

Controversies

Taddeï has been criticised by other French journalists and public figures like Caroline Fourest and Patrick Cohen because of his vision of freedom of speech. In his television show ''Ce soir (ou jamais !)'' he invited controversial French personalities such as Dieudonné, Alain Soral, Jean Bricmont, and Marc-Édouard Nabe. These figures are accused by their critics of having antisemitic opinions; Taddeï was criticised for giving them a platform, even though no complaints were ever made about anything that was aired in eight years of broadcasting, except when

Mathieu Kassovitz Mathieu Kassovitz () is a French actor, film director, film producer and screenwriter. He has won three César Awards: Most Promising Actor for '' See How They Fall'' (1994), and Best Film and Best Editing for '' La Haine'' (1995). He also re ...

expressed his doubts about the 9/11 case. Taddeï and ''Ce soir (ou jamais !)'' have been defended by personalities such as

Bernard Pivot Bernard Pivot (; 5 May 1935 – 6 May 2024) was a French journalist, interviewer and host of cultural television programmes. He was chairman of the Académie Goncourt from 2014 to 2020. Biography Pivot was born in Lyon on 5 May 1935, the son o ...

Régis Debray Jules Régis Debray (; born 2 September 1940) is a French philosopher, journalist, former government official and academic. He is known for his theorization of mediology, a critical theory of the long-term transmission of cultural meaning in ...

and Alain Jacubowicz (president of the LICRA, the French League Against Racism and Antisemitism).

References

External links

''Ce soir (ou jamais !)''
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