The team of Big heads by Laurent Ruquier continues to grow. While the host chose to recruit the ex-candidate star Academy Francesca Antoniotti, who we could see for several years with Cyril Hanouna in various of his productions on C8 such as TPMP, TPMP People et It’s just TV, a new Grosse Tête will debut this Thursday, September 28, 2023 on RTL. As made official by Laurent Ruquier on Twitter, it is chef Juan Arbelaez. Aged 35, the man is known to have been the husband of Miss France Laury Thilleman with whom he was in a relationship from 2015 to 2022.
Juan Arbelaez’s media journey began in 2014, when France 2 chose him to co-host In the Skin of a Chef alongside Christophe Michalak. He was then recruited by Stéphane Bern for a weekly culinary column in Comment ça va bien, before TF1 entrusted him with the reins of his own show, Impossible cooking, which he hosted for two seasons alongside Julien Duboué. Chronicler of Daily for one season, he also co-hosted the show My most beautiful Christmasl with Valérie Damidot. After public service and TF1, Juan Arbelaez now works within the M6 group, and participates in Snack Masters and Top Chef objectivealongside Stéphane Rotenberg for the first, and Philippe Etchebest for the second.
Evoking his beginnings as a radio columnist on RTLJuan Arbelaez revealed that he died of stage fright: ”It’s my first at Les Grosses Têtes, so I’m a little scared to death… I don’t want to end up in a flaky mince pie. We know them, I know they are relentless. They’re really hard so we’ll have to anticipate and I won’t miss out.”. For his premiere, Juan Arbelaez will team up with Christophe Beaugrand, Roselyne Bachelot, Philippe Claudel, Jeanfi Janssens and Caroline Diament.
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