“In the evening, you're afraid”: this period which was very difficult for Arthur to live through

Arthur was the portrait of the show 50 Minutes Inside this Saturday, December 21. The opportunity for the host to make some confidences concerning a period that was particularly difficult for live.

© TF1 screenshot Arthur confided about a period that was very difficult for him.

IN BRIEF

• Arthur, a famous TV host, celebrates his 30-year TV career and shares his experience of lockdown in 2020 on the show '50 Minutes Inside'.
• During lockdown, despite living in the countryside, Arthur found it difficult, describing his experience as “a nightmare” and expressing his desire to return to urban life.
• Discover how Arthur transformed this ordeal into an opportunity to strengthen family ties and find something positive in a difficult situation.

Arthur is a host who needs no introduction. He is celebrating his thirtieth birthday on television and, for this special occasion, he has agreed to confide in the show 50 Minutes Inside. The latter notably returned to a period that he would not like to relive: confinement. In March 2020, because of the Covid-19 pandemic, the French were forced to stay at home. While some were confined to their apartments, this was not the case for Arthur. This is the countryside, alongside his loved ones, where he spent the two months. A heavenly setting for some but a real hell for him.

Arthur states it with complete transparency: “&Cedil;it was a nightmare”. The host then specifies: “A double nightmare because stopping everything overnight, it was special”. While he found himself without work, he assures that he did not take advantage of this rest at all. “In addition, it was in the countryside for me. You will tell me “you are privileged”, there is everything there but for me, “it was terrible”, he continues before adding:  “During the day, you're bored, in the evening you're scared”. For Arthur, this confinement has been “really horrible. Everyone was overexcited at my place while I only wanted one thing: find a traffic jam, that çthe horn honks, that çthe shouts”, he concluded.

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Arthur: a confinement he will never forget

This is not the first time that Arthur has looked back on this period. In the columns of TV Mag in 2020, he confided that he was confined outside Paris in “a house with space and a garden“. He didn't hesitate to mention his daily life, specifying: ” In the morning, I get up at 7am, I give a hand to Mareva with the housework. I don't cook, so I vacuum, make the beds, take out the trash… “.During this period, Arthur was a present father for Manava. “I admit that the first few days, çit really bored me, but now, I get up, I take a shower, I make myself beautiful for my daughter and we do school together in front of the computer connected to the teacher”, he said.

Arthur seemed happy about this confinement, especially since he had specified that he only wanted to see the positive side of the situation. “In one week, I spent more time glued to my daughter than in the last six months”, he rejoiced before adding:  “I never thought I would be schooling my daughter in my entire life. So, finally, there is some good coming out of this confinement”. If enjoying his family &;was essential for the host, he had notably specified: “ We have to look for the positive somewhere, otherwise we will sink into depression ”. A period that seems to have been much more complicated for Arthur than he thought.

Arthur: “I'm a strict dad”

During this interview, Arthur took the opportunity to make some confidences about his children, Samuel, Aaron and Manava. While he is a presenter who is used to making the French laugh, he assures that he does not act in the same way when it touches their education. “I'm less funny at home than in real life. I'm a pretty strict person”, he confided. However, he knows how to please them with a very specific tradition. “They have the right to a week a year called the week of yes”, he explains before adding that his children can thus ask for what they want, their dad cannot refuse.