It is at her place that Claire Chazal received Paris Match for an intimate interview, including a few questions about his private life. On his alleged (and false) love affair with Roschdy Zem, but not only. Chosen to replace Anne-Sophie Lapix at the presentation of the Grand Chessboard broadcast on December 20 on France 3, the famous 65-year-old journalist did not manage to escape a question about Patrick Poivre d’Arvor, to whom she was very close at one point in her life. The two former presenters of TF1’s 20h newscast lived a love story in the 90s, a story that gave birth to a boy named François, who is 26 years old today.
While Patrick Poivre d’Arvor has had to face accusations of rape and sexual assault for several months – and that a new investigation for rape has been opened after the new complaint from Florence Porcel following the classification without follow-up of the first – Claire Chazal gives her feelings about her former companion. The host of the cultural program Passage of the arts (every Sunday in the second part of the evening on France 2) describes Patrick Poivre d’Arvor as “a seducer who likes to conquer and, let us say it, even multiply conquests. There is nothing in violence, nor in force. What he likes above all is to seduce, to convince. He has pride which makes that being loved is what he wants above all.“
Invited by Paris Match to speak on Patrick Poivre d’Arvor, Claire Chazal called on the magazine to refer to its previous comments on the subject in the Sunday newspaper . “I lived it very painfully (the outbreak of the PPDA affair editor’s note) because I don’t like accusations without proof or legal basis, reacted Claire Chazal on September 25. I hate names thrown into the pasture, to popular vindictiveness and the judgment of public opinion. The fact is that this case was closed, the magistrates were not even seized. I fully understand that there are issues of male domination and that women feel it. I have said it and will say it again: I cannot believe that this man whom I know well, professionally and personally, who certainly likes to seduce and convince, has any violence in him.“
He taught me a lot
Claire Chazal prefers to salute the talents of Patrick Poivre d’Arvor rather than talk about his legal troubles. “Patrick can disembark at the last minute and conduct a brilliant interview. Me, I do not have his ease. I am much more industrious. He taught me a lot“, concludes the journalist on the subject.
Paris Match also tried to get Claire Chazal’s reaction to the Nicolas Hulot affair. The former star host of TF1 (Ushuaia) is accused of rape and sexual assault between 1989 and 2008. Enough to make her sigh again as she does not want to talk about this file. “I’ve known him forever, says Claire Chazal. I do not know. There was no judgment.“Patrick Poivre d’Arvor and Nicolas Hulot have long had friends and shocking revelations about their friendship have recently emerged …