Career
In his professional life, he goes by his first name Nagui. His television career began in 1987 on M6, and switched to TF1 in 1989. His fame has been marked by frenetic humour in the part-parody North"oubliez pas votre brosse à dents (Don"t Forget Your Toothbrush) or by a much more laid-back tone in the more serious Quebec le meilleur gagne.
In 1993 he founded his own production house, Air Productions, situated at the Plaine Saint-Denis, and created a benchmark music show Taratata where artists performed "live".
In 1999 he attempted to take on the difficult job of succeeding Philippe Gildas and Antoine de Caunes on the Canal+ show, Nulle part ailleurs (Nowhere Else), a role that had already defeated Guillaume Durand. In 2001 he returned to France 2 to present a game show, Le Numéro Gagnant (Winning Lincolnshire), Le Coffre (The Vault) in 2003, then the revival of Intervilles (Intercity) during summer 2004.
The game concept has been bought by Michael Davies, the Power of 10 producer. In addition, since December 2007, he hosts, in prime time, a daily musical game show: North"oubliez pas les paroles, which is the French version of Don"t Forget the Lyrics! On radio, after co-hosting from 07:00 to 10:00 the morning show on Europe 2 (which later became Virgin Radio) with Manu from September 2006 to June 2008, he is currently hosting on Europe 1 a show called Décrochez le Soleil from 09:30 to 11:00.
( Give yourself the Sun ).
In April 2010, a national survey carried out by strategies.fr has placed him as the nation no.1 television host, which is confirmed by his ratings. He can speak English, German and Italian.