This Sunday, April 24, Hugues Aufray was present in Can’t wait for Sundaybroadcast on France 2. Before welcoming his partner Muriel on the set, the singer confided in Michel Drucker regarding their meeting in a TGV.
Like every weekend, Michael Drucker takes a seat in its emblematic red sofa to receive artists making the news in Can’t wait for Sunday. This April 24, 2022, he received on the set of his show Laurent Voulzy et Hugues Aufray to evoke their return on stage during concerts planned in the cathedrals and churches of France. Installed in his armchair, the interpreter of Santiano took the opportunity to return to his meeting with his companion Muriela few minutes before the latter joins him on the set to discuss their romantic relationship.
A meeting that dates back to 1995
Since 1951, Hugues Aufray has been married to the dancer Hélène with whom there were two daughters. But since 2005, he shares his life with a certain Muriel, which he presented to the public in 2021 during his visit to The secret song. Last summer he confided in Paris Match regarding his love for her, and took advantage of it deny polygamy rumors circulating regarding it. In Can’t wait for Sunday, the singer tells the presenter of their meeting on board a train. “I was in the TGV and I saw this young girl. She asked me for an autograph. Seeing her, I asked her if she made movies and she said ‘No’“, he explains. He then offered to come to Paris and help her with her career. Originally from Savoy, it was only three years later that she came to live, with other projects in mind, in the capital: “She came and then she stayed“, he says regarding the one with whom he has never stopped communicating.
Muriel Megevand praises this “great man“
A few minutes later, Muriel arrived on the set of Can’t wait for Sunday and confided in the 92-year-old artist. “He’s a wonderful man. He is very positive all the time, in everything he does. He already painted and sculpted me“, she reveals regarding him. However, when she spoke with him for the first time in this famous TGV, if she was happy to meet a known personality, she would actually have preferred to meet her idol, Jean-Jacques Goldman, a good friend of the singer. But no matter, today, Hugues Aufray and Muriel continue to live their beautiful story even 27 years later: “In fact, I’ve never been bored with Hugues, I’ve known him since 1995 and I’ve never been bored with you.”