Patrick Roy: what did the animator of a Golden Family die of? – Closer France

This Tuesday, August 31, Camille Combal will be in charge of the revival of the program Une famille en or. Program made popular by Patrick Roy.

New success for Camille Combal? After Dancing With The Stars, Carpool Karaoke or Who Wants to Be a Millionaire ?, the star host of TF1 takes control of the reboot of A gold family this Tuesday August 31. “It was TF1 who had the will to relaunch ‘A golden family’. They surveyed me and I accepted in a revised version, with the possibility of bringing a lot of new things“, he confided to CNews. The ex-chronicler of Do not touch My TV will have to appropriate the place of Patrick roy which popularized the game show in France during the 1980s and 1990s.

Radio and television host, he breathed his last February 18, 1993, at the young age of 40. Patrick roy succumbed to bone cancer. A few months earlier, in October 1992, he was hospitalized for treatment. A fear that had a resounding impact on the PAF because, if it presented A gold family, he was also the head of Right price. Bernard Montiel and Philippe Risoli were forced to replace him when the two shows were presented. Almost 30 years after his death, his fans do not forget him. In 2013, his mother Colette delivered poignant confidences to the magazine France Sunday.

Patrick Roy’s mother receives gifts from fans

“As unbelievable as it may sound, I still get mail or even gifts from some fans.”, she said. Because many French people do everything to pay tribute to Patrick roy. “A gentleman sends me for example every year a can of foie gras, by telling me each time that the day when I will no longer receive it is that he will have died.“And to add:”I must admit that it makes me happy, but to choose, I would prefer that Patrick is still alive today. “The mourning of her son was the most difficult, although she said then to keep her head up. “Cry ? No ! I have never no longer shed a single tear since his death. Even after my husband died, I did not cry once. I think I have exhausted all my tears from my body, twenty years ago.”