A completely unexpected marriage! When in 2004, the managers of Canal were looking for a duo to present a special program on the 20th anniversary of the channel, they chose Antoine de Caunes and Daphné Roulier, two journalists they knew well. The one who has already presented the Césars four times at the time (and who is about to start again for the tenth time this Friday evening) is not very enthusiastic.
However, from the first meeting, love at first sight occurs between the two, as they had told the magazine here is. “We resisted for two months, because she was engaged and I was on an end of story“, but their love grows and they end up getting married in 2007, in Trouville-sur-Mer, in Normandy. A union that did not really go as they had planned.
Subject of daily newspaper portrait Release this Friday, Antoine de Caunes recounted this ceremony like no other. “Hounded by the paparazzi, the lovers had to be exfiltrated from the town hall via the Monoprix underground“, writes the journalist. A real movie scene in an important city for José Garcia’s sidekick: in fact, he spent all the holidays there with his mother and owns a house there.
The couple had one child together, Louis, now 13. But Antoine de Caunes, whom his wife describes as alive “on another planet“, was already a dad twice: Emma, born in 1976 from her first marriage, is an actress and director. She also made him turn in her new series, Nine Guysderived from New chicks. Louis De Caunes, born in 1987 from a second marriage, is also a director.
With his children, he would be suffering from the Peter Pan syndrome, not wanting to grow old, possessing no authority, still according to Release. However, his daughter Emma places him, still today, on a pedestal and thanks him for having given him the music virus. For several years, she had also presented a program on the subject … on Canal +.
And it would seem that she herself passed on the family talent: her own daughter Nina, born in 2001 from her marriage to singer Sinclair, took her first steps as an actress in the series Nine chicks. A few years ago, when she was only a teenager, she had already stood out for her videos on Youtube.