They met in the early 2000s when they were both collaborating with Infosport. Today, almost 20 years later, it is the break between Estelle Denis and Raymond Domenech. A separation already announced by the magazine Public in April 2021 and confirmed by The Parisian this Wednesday, January 26, 2022. Asked by the daily, the 45-year-old journalist did not wish to comment on this subject. For his part, Raymond Domenech did not speak publicly either. Before everything was over between them, the former footballer who became a coach then a sports consultant hoped to marry his beautiful … in vain.
The sequence has become legendary. In 2008, a few minutes after the defeat of the French team against Italy at Euro 2008, Raymond Domenech, at the time coach of the Blues, was questioned by Jean-Philippe Doux at the microphone of M6. His coaching role was undermined by the failure. The journalist then questions him about his future projects. This is where the 70-year-old former football star starts. “I have only one project, and that is to marry Estelle. So today I ask him. I know it’s hard but it’s times like this that everyone is needed and I need her“, he declares in front of the cameras of the Six.
It took a year for Estelle Denis to speak publicly about this failed marriage proposal. In 2009, with Le Point, she revealed that this show “will have marked [sa] life“. But the years pass and no marriage in sight for the couple. In 2014, at the microphone of MFM, the pretty brunette then postponed the question. “It’s not for now she said. We are very happy as we are, we have been together for more than ten years, we have two wonderful children. For now, that’s enough for us.“The mother of Victoire (17 years old) and Merlin (14 years old), born of her love affair with Raymond Domenech, later confessed to having “fear” marriage.
Ultimately, the union will never take place. And in 2019, eleven years after this surprising marriage proposal, Raymond Domenech showed himself lucid in the columns of The Team. “It was inappropriate, a real communication error… Especially since this request had an impact on Estelle’s life and career“, he had noted. Today, the subject is no longer…