Swiss warn Hallyday he'll die of boredom

Johnny Hallyday, the ageing but energetic French rocker, whose decision to move to a Swiss ski resort for tax reasons has sparked furious debate at home, received advice from his new host country yesterday: "Don't come, you'll die of boredom."

Hallyday, 63, a leather-clad Gallic icon, said that "like many French people, I've had enough of the taxes we are forced to pay" and will spend six months and a day a year in Gstaad.
But the editor-in-chief of the Swiss daily Le Matin warned Hallyday to "stay at home," unless, that is, he could speak the local Swiss-German dialect and was "mad about skiing, walking and solitude".

"And as Johnny is a guy who cannot stay alone, he will be as bored as a dead rat in Gstaad," said Peter Rothenbûhler in his editorial.
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