He never let go. Like what, when you flash on a person, it is sometimes necessary to show perseverance. Unfortunately Philippe Gildas is no longer there to confirm it, but his companion Maryse was able to do so this Wednesday, February 1 on the set of It starts today. Faced with Faustine Bollaert, the one who recounted the last days of her companion’s life is indeed back on an important day of her life. When the journalist confessed his feelings to her, in a strange way.
Initially simple colleagues when they collaborated on European 1, their story gave way to love from 1984. Date on which the lovebirds formalized their story. And precisely, Philippe Gildas played on this “working” relationship to charm his muse, as the latter revealed to Faustine Bollaert. “One evening I received a phone call, I was in pajamas. Can I come by? I have something to offer you for next season’ Me, there was only my daughter and my job […] He arrives at nine o’clock”she remembers before indicating that her director (he was director of Europe 1 at the time: editor’s note) had “a blue file under the arm”. “I say to him: ‘Have you had dinner?’ He says to me: ‘No’. ‘I can make you an omelet’. He eats and I think to myself when he will open this file…”she remembers.
Philippe Gildas waited three months before trying his luck again
The famous blue file will ultimately never be opened and Maryse accompanies Philippe Gildas to his door. Moment chosen by the journalist to reveal his feelings: “At one point, he enters the elevator, I am me, against the wall. He says to me, straight in the eyes, stunned: ‘I am leaving but one day I will make love to you.’ I fell”. If the former host of Nowhere else on Canal + fails to conclude that day, it is because her partner has just been left by her first husband and she finds herself pregnant and she does not feel ready to embark on a new story.
But three months after his confession, Philippe Gildas uses his secret weapon to achieve his ends. “One day, he suggests that I come by to see the decoration of his new apartment. […] And suddenly on the couch he kissed me. It started there and it was a revelation.” With his malice, the journalist who died on October 28, 2018 from cancer, managed to enter the heart of his muse and never come out again..
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