EVRY, France (AFP) — French television's "Mr Clean" has been threatened with eviction from a mobile home park south of Paris because his caravan is too dirty, Pierre Chevalier told AFP Saturday.
A household figure in the 1980s thanks to advertising for cleaning product "Monsieur Propre", Chevalier has fallen foul of new park owner Philippe Waver, who has written demanding he remove a "heap" of recovered junk on his plot.
Waver is seeking the removal of Chevalier's caravan, some 20 years old, in a bid to make his Essonne site more up-market.
But Chevalier told AFP the mess is due to his being unable to visit the site since August 2007, owing to his partner's ill-health.
"Yes, we haven't cleaned the place since," he said. "But the site is currently closed and all the plots are covered with (broken) branches and leaves.
"All the plots are dirty."
Chevalier refuses to quit, adding: "When we're there, our caravan is pristine -- inside and out. Anyway, everybody loves me here, I even get stopped for autographs."
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