“Calm down ma’am, it’s going to be fine”launched Gérald Darmanin to Apolline de Malherbe who had just asked him a question about his security record. “I beg your pardon ?”she had interrupted him before repeating: “Pause. Oh. I beg your pardon, how are you talking to me?” A lively exchange between the Minister of the Interior and the political journalist of BFM TV which has been on a loop for the whole of the beginning of the week. And who shed light on the personality of the 41-year-old young woman.
1. Started in politics at 20
While Jean-Pierre Chevènement embarked on the 2002 presidential campaign under the sovereignty label (he won 5.33% of the vote, editor’s note), the politician could count among his supporters the young Apolline de Malherbe, aged 20 years old. “I was a student and was preparing to enter Sciences-Po. I sometimes went to campaign headquarters, to meetings and was responsible for doing press reviews for Jean-Pierre Chevènement. What interested me about him was was this speech “neither right nor left. We returned to the essence of the Republic: requirement, effort, school, meritocracy, etc. I felt republican and remained one deeply”she said in 2016 to the New Obs.
2. Mom of four
“My Wikipedia page is full of errors! Already, I have not three but four children…”she said in an interview with our colleagues from the magazine SHE. The 41-year-old journalist is therefore the mother of four children, including two boys born in 2007 and 2010 from a first union and a girl named Hannah born on March 23, 2017.
3. His companion is an ex-close friend of Manuel Valls
Pacsée in 2017 to Harold Hauzy, who is the former director of communication for the city of Evry, he is also the former communication advisor to Manuel Valls. In March 2018, Strategies announced that he had created a consulting firm in communication strategy.
4. She took over from Jean-Jacques Bourdin in August 2020
First joker, Apolline de Malherbe finally succeeded Jean-Jacques Bourdinot. “Deeply happy and proud to lead this magnificent morning show on RMC. Responsibility to succeed JJ Bourdin, an immense journalist with an irreplaceable tone, whom I salute with respect and affection”, she wrote at the time of her appointment. As a reminder, the latter has been present on the radio station (and TV channel) since 2013 as an editorialist and interviewer.
5. Friends with Estelle Denis
It was last January that Estelle Denis subscribers discovered the closeness of the journalist with Apolline de Malherbe. Freshly single, the ex of Raymond Domenech granted himself an evening between girls in the company of the one who is in charge of Apolline Matin and Karine Le Marchand.
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