In 2001, Alexia Laroche-Joubert gained notoriety as brutal as it was surprising by becoming the director of the first two editions of Star Academy. But in July 2003, the young woman then aged 33just a mother of a little Solveig aged 13 monthsexperiences the worst tragedy of her life: the brutal death of her husband in a motorcycle accident, businessman and producer Yan-Philippe Blanc. The man, who was then the CEO of Warner Music France, and who had also been the president of the Mercury label, died at the age of 39leaving behind a grieving widow, whom he had married a few months earlier.
Disoriented, Alexia Laroche-Joubert delegates the direction of season 3 of the star Academy to his sister Nathalie Andréwhich was replaced the following year by Gérard Louvin. After two years of absence, far from television screens, the producer of star Academy also became its director again until season 7, before handing over the reins of the castle to Armande Altaï for the eighth season. A personal tragedy which will not prevent him from pursuing a brilliant professional career: appointed program director of Endemol France in 2004, she then tried hosting radio and television shows on Europe 1 and TMC, without much success. In 2016, she was appointed to the presidency of Adventure Line Productionsand oversees shows such as Koh Lanta And Fort Boyard. Reality TV High Priestesswe owe him tons of proposals, like The Sticks, Loft Story, Dilemma, Nice People, Secret StoryThere Farm Celebrities, First company Or The people of Marseilles.
A very rich personal life
In 2021, Alexia Laroche-Joubert is appointed president of the Miss France company. on September 1st, it was the consecration for Alexia Laroche-Joubert, who became one of the most powerful French businesswomen in Europe, becoming the CEO of Banijay France. A great revenge for the one who, as she revealed to Le Figaro this Friday, December 7, 2023, did not experience the death of her first husband as a terrible tragedy, and was able to quickly recover from it: “I am lucky to have lived with a fantastic man during the time that (he) was given” she explained, philosophically. And to continue: “I have never seen my life as a test, even in tragedies. I think I have failures more than trials. I hit the wall sometimes, I missed the turn, but even the death of the father of my family, I did not experience it as a tragedy“.
Four years after the death of her husband, Alexia Laroche-Joubert rebuilt her life with the businessman Guillaume Multrier, from whom she divorced three years later. She will welcome with the latter her second daughter, Isaure, who will celebrate his 16th birthday on December 17. In 2015, third marriage for Alexia Laroche-Joubert, who married the surgeon Alexis Lesueur, from whom she would divorce again a few years later. For more than two years, she has shared the life of the businessman Matthew Grinberg, who is the CEO of a luxury hotel in Croatia.