When he’s not on the set of the 1 p.m. news on TF1 (as Joker) or when he’s not presiding over the short-circuit wine sales company Avenue des Vins, Jacques Legros spends family time with his wife Valérie or son Gabriel (17 years old). Interviewed by Closer as part of the release of his book Behind the screen (on October 5 at the editions of the Rock), he made some secrets about his children.
Gabriel is musician and singer. But you will never see it in the star Academy as his famous dad put it: “He is a tenor, but the Star Ac’Nope. Personally, I enjoy watching these shows, like The Voicebut first they are shows.“The teenager intends to train in a school and actively preparing for entrance exams, including the one for the Julliard School, in New York, in the musical composition section. “He dreams of making film music. He is HPI. With all the fragilities that this entails, beware… Many problems that parents have to manage“, continued Jacques Legros. According to him, his son undoubtedly takes his mother, who is “veterinary gastroenterologist, responsible for the consultation at the Alfort school, but also doctor of medicine, researcher at the Imagine institute of the Necke hospitalr”.
Jacques Legros is also the proud father of Tatiana (45 years old, born of a former union), who takes care of the photo and video production for the communication of the Truffaut brand. But he admitted to our colleagues that he had not been able to give him as much time as Gabriel. “During his childhood, I was in the Vaucluse for the radio. away from her. But when she was a baby, I decided to keep her. I went to the park with her in her pram and the moms looked at me askance. Times have changed. Today, we find it normal for fathers to pamper. As a JT joker, I was almost never able to be with my children during school holidays. It’s the rule of the game. We can not have everything“, he concluded.
The full interview can be found in the magazine Closer from October 21, 2022