Mélissa Theuriau looks back on her meeting with Jamel Debbouze: “He was watching me behind a newspaper”

Journalist Mélissa Theuriau, interviewed in Le Parisien Weekend this Friday, February 4, confided in her meeting with comedian Jamel Debbouze, almost 15 years ago. A union that gave birth to two children, Leon 13 years old and Lilac 10 years.

It all started in 2007, when Jamel was on the set ofAsterix at the Olympics in Alicante. The journalist explainsI was making a topic for Restricted zone”. “I had been asked not to approach him, but he was watching me behind a newspaper he was holding upside down. The discussion started, I only heard intelligence” she continued. It’s love at first sight for the 43-year-old journalist who admits having taken the lead. “It was I who tried to join him… simply to continue our exchanges. At the time, we were both a couple.

Fore Parisian Weekend the journalist went from confidence to confidence, addressing her professional situation and her failed passage in the TF1 group. Noticed on LCI between 2003 and 2006, Thierry Gilardi offers the young journalist to become Claire Chazal’s understudy on the news. Offer that the 28-year-old journalist refuses. She explains:If you are locked up in a 20 hours at 28, it’s over, she testifies and continues, it happened too quickly and then, it’s not at all what I wanted to do.“She was soon ousted from LCI.”My badge was deactivated overnight, she explained. It was very violent.”

She then manages to bounce back on M6 by producing documentaries. She then claimed for Entertainment TV : “I will not go back. More than ten years ago, I wanted to highlight subjects that I found important to defend, to enlighten. I wanted to open this window of freedom. I do not get enough...”

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