As the week begins, Thomas Sotto tested positive for coronavirus on Monday, March 28. Forced to isolate himself for a week, Julia Vignali’s sidekick gives way to Maya Lauqué, at the helm of Télé Matin.
Forced rest for Thomas Sotto. Tested positive for coronavirus this Monday, March 28 morning, Julia Vignali’s sidekick has been forced to temporarily withdraw from the antenna. Disappointed at not being able to be in charge of Morning TV this week, the journalist did not fail to inform viewers of this: “I finally passed an exam. Alas, it’s that of the Covid…”, he announced on his Twitter account. The time for a rapid convalescence, the companion of the communication adviser to Minister Jean Castex – must give way to another journalist: “It is therefore in front of my TV that I will watch Julia Vignali and Maya Lauqué present Télématin this week. I embrace them (and you) (from afar)“, concluded theformer radio host.
Anna Cabana and Jean-Michel Blanquer
In July 2020, here is reveals that Anna Cabana and the Minister of National Education, Jean-Michel Blanquer, are in a relationship. Pointed the finger, the journalist, although supported by Marc-Olivier Fogiel, will prefer to put a time behind the antenna. In January 2022, the couple is once more at the center of a controversy. The journalist launched an inconvenient debate on her husband’s vacation in Ibiza, when the new school protocol was announced.
Léa Salamé and Raphaël Glucksmann
In November 2015, it is on the set ofWe are not in bed that Léa Salamé, then a columnist for Laurent Ruquier, met Raphaël Glucksmann. Between the journalist and the MEP, love at first sight is immediate. Together, the couple will give birth in March 2017 to a little Gabriel.
Thomas Below
This time, it was among men that a journalist fell in love with a political personality. In November 2021, Thomas Sotto decided to withdraw from the program “Elysée 2022” because of his relationship with Mayada Boulos, communications adviser to Prime Minister Jean Castex. “It’s a difficult decision and, in a way, quite unfairhe reacted in “Le Parisien”. But I have to take into account our time, which has become very violent and which tends to hysterize everything. Suspicion is widespread.“
Mayada Boulos
Former adviser to Marisol Tourraine, Minister of Health for François Hollande, Mayada Boulos then joined Havas before being offered to be Jean Castex’s communications officer during the summer of 2020. She was already married and has two children.
Michel Sapin and Valerie de Senneville
In December 2011, Valérie de Senneville, journalist with Echos, marries Michel Sapin. While her husband was appointed Minister of Labor in May 2012, the editor remained in the Law and Justice sections of the magazine.
Jean-Louis Borloo and Beatrice Schoenberg
In 2005, Béatrice Schönberg married Jean-Louis Borloo for a second time. If the journalist initially chose to keep her post on France 2, where she presented the television news, she finally gave up her place to Laurent Delahousse during the 2007 presidential elections. A magnificent proof of love.
Isabelle Saporta and Yannick Jadot
On May 30, 2019, Isabelle Saporta resigned from RTL following the revelation of his affair with Yannick Jadot. Since their meeting on the set of BFM TV two years ago, the journalist and the ecologist MEP are inseparable.
Francois Hollande and Valerie Trierweiler
In 2010, Valérie Trierweiler and François Hollande formalize their relationship. In 2012, when the socialist was appointed President of the Republic, the journalist turned to the culture section of Paris Match. In January 2014, it was through the press that she learned of her husband’s affair with Julie Gayet.
Christine Ockrent and Bernard Kouchner
In a relationship for nearly forty years, Christine Ockrent and Bernard Kouchner made headlines when the journalist was appointed Deputy Managing Director of Audiovisual Outside France in 2008. And for good reason, at the time , the company is under the supervision of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, itself headed by Bernard Kouchner. Faced with the controversy, Christine Ockrent will end up leaving her post and Bernard Kouchner will be ousted during the reshuffle of November 2010.
Francois Baroin and Marie Drucker
From 2006 to 2008, Marie Drucker lived a romance with François Baroin, then Minister of Overseas then Minister of the Interior. A love story that will keep the journalist off the air during the presidential elections of May 2007.
Dominique Strauss-Kahn and Anne Sinclair
It’s on the set of the political show Home Matters that Anne Sinclair met Dominique Strauss-Kahn in 1988. Forced to put her career aside because of her husband’s political ambitions, the journalist will support him during the Sofitel affair before finally filing for divorce in 2013.
Arnaud Montebourg and Audrey Pulvar
In 2010, Audrey Pulvar, in a relationship with Arnaud Montebourg, was forced to say goodbye to France Inter and i-tv by “ethical concern”. A heartbreak for the journalist whose relationship with politics will end in November 2012.
Elizabeth Martichoux et Aquilino Morelle
Elizabeth Martichoux was married to Aquilino Morelle, with whom she had two children. But the journalist and the former adviser to the Elysee Palace of François Hollande separated in 2014.
Catherine Nay and Albin Chalandon
At the end of the 1960s, Albin Chalandon and Catherine Nay began a romance in the shadows. Despite their age difference and their different schedules, the politician and the journalist will live an incredible love story for more than fifty years.
14/14 SLIDES
This is not the first time that Thomas Sotto has been forced to give up his place to a colleague. At the controls of the political program Elysee 2022, with Léa Salamé, the former France 2 joker announced his withdrawal from the program in November. And this, due to his romantic relationship with Maya Boulos : “A personal event, which I do not wish to develop because it concerns my private life, pushes me to make a simple and clear decision : the time of the presidential campaign, I chose to step back”, he had simply confided to the Parisian / Today in France.
Not unknown to fans of Telematin, the companion of Cyril Denis is notably at the controls of the show from Friday to Sunday, on France 2. Former dancer of the Paris Opera, the journalist formerly a member of the National Conservatory of Music and Dance, preferred to devote herself to animation. Passed by South West, then Infosportthe 42-year-old blonde then joined I-TV, before taking the reins of The Daily from France Televisions, with Thomas Isle. face of the new format of the morning show piloted by William Leymergie, the young mother form an explosive duo with Damien Thévenot.
