Claire Chazal was the star face of TF1 for a long time until her last newscast at 8 p.m. on September 13, 2015. Thanked by the first channel after many years of good and loyal service, the famous 65-year-old journalist has not slow to rebound, joining the large France Télévisions family. Since September 2019, she presents the excellent cultural program Passage of the arts which switched from France 5 (then daily) to France 2 (second part of the evening on Sunday). Viewers will find her for the very first time at the helm of the Grand Chessboard next December 20 on France 3, replacing Anne-Sophie Lapix, then Anne Elisabeth Lemoine. It is in this news that the magazine Paris Match went to meet Claire Chazal at her place. An interview carried out in his privacy, conducive to some private confidences …
The journalist with the slim figure (46 kilos) openly evokes her love life and admits regretting some of her relationships. He has just been lent a new one for a few months. Last summer, Claire Chazal was photographed very close to a popular actor, Roschdy Zem. The one who received the César for best actor in 2020 for Roubaix, a light, and who took on the role of president of the ceremony during the 46th edition which took place on March 12, 2021 at the Olympia, had his arm resting on the shoulders of Claire Chazal. Was it necessary to deduce from this the birth of an idyll? Claire Chazal finally delivers the answer. “We’re old friends, and I love him a lot“she replies to Paris Match on the subject, the magazine specifying that the journalist rolls her eyes by evoking this false rumor for the first time. Claire Chazal specifies being single, a situation that suits him perfectly, as it does many of his friends. “I have other friends who are alone by choice. I like to go to the cinema alone, to see an exhibition alone. I like to be free from my judgments, not to be influenced“, she confides.
In the past, Claire Chazal was married to Xavier Couture, deputy general manager of TF1 during their mediatized union which took place in March 2020 at the bride of the 7th arrondissement of Paris. The couple divorced three years later, in 2003. She also had a love affair with Philippe Torreton from 2003 to 2007 then with the model and host Arnaud Lemaire from 2007 to 2015.
Claire Chazal’s entire interview with Paris Match can be found in the issue of December 9, 2021.