Antoine de Caunes

Antoine de Caunes born 1 December 1953 is a French television presenter comedian actor journalist writer and film director He is the son of two prominent French personalities television journalistreporter Georges de Caunes and television announcer Jacqueline Joubert He is the father of the actress Emma de Caunes He began his career writing theme songs for cartoons for Antenne 2 under the pseudonym of Paul Persavon including Cobra and Space Sheriff Gavan known in France as XOr His early TV appearances included Chorus 1975 the series Les Enfants du rock again for A2 and then his breakthrough with Nulle part ailleurs for Canal In 1988 De Caunes started making an Englishlanguage version of his French music programme Rapido for Janet StreetPorters youth and entertainment programming strand DEF II with new episodes of Rapido usually being broadcast as part of DEF IIs Wednesday night schedule on BBC2 He then went on to create the longrunning magazine programme Eurotrash for Channel 4 with this humorous postpub entertainment show copresented by Jean Paul Gaultier for the few series and featuring regular spots for European stars like Lolo Ferrari He also presented a shortlived chat show on Channel 4 called Le Show In addition he appeared in an advertising campaign for Rowntrees Fruit Pastilles ice lollies From 2013 until 2015 he hosted the daily evening show Le Grand Journal on Canal He provided voices in the Aardman Animation TV show Rex the Runt De Caunes launched a new magazine Vieux about issues faced by the elderly in May 2024 He is a longtime AIDS awareness campaigner fronting the organisation Solidarité sida AIDS Solidarity Source Article Antoine de Caunes from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA