Did Léon Marchand deliver a humiliating snub to Quels Jeux!? Let’s delve into the story that has scandalised the whole of France, if by “scandalised” you mean “mildly diverted” and by “whole” you mean the sort of people who frequent the gossip columns of downmarket newspapers and like to make snap judgments about people they’ve never met.
Quels Jeux!, the live late-night chatshow on France 2, has been one of the television smashes of the Games, capturing audiences of up to three million in its post-watershed graveyard slot. Filmed in the Club France headquarters in La Villette, it is where a procession of medal-winning French athletes have taken their curtain call, answering lighthearted and embarrassingly personal questions in front of a screeching and probably drunk studio audience.
