An emblematic figure of television, Frédéric Lopez is one of the most popular personalities among viewers. His speciality ? Collect the confidences of celebrities, by inviting them to atypical places. Despite his media presence, the 56-year-old host jealously guards his privacy. In 2016, he still agreed to confide in his particularly difficult childhood. “I was not a wanted child. My mother gave birth to me at 16 in the greatest secrecy. My father went back to Morocco before coming back when I was two years old to do his duty. I had the face of constraint”, he revealed in the columns of the magazine We both.
After complicated years punctuated by incessant moves, Frédéric Lopez will study marketing before making the decision to leave France to join the Big Apple. Exit New York and a brief career as a model, it is in Paris that he will settle down before joining the Practical Institute of Journalism (IPJ). ofHighway Info To Restricted zone Passing by Meeting in unknown land, Panic in the headset or The Unexpected Parenthesis, Frédéric Lopez has managed to impose himself brilliantly on the small screen.
“I had been to Guatemala, the Philippines. I remember the first name and the story of all the people I met. So I brought out a concept that I had written for Télé-Métropole when I was 23 years old. At the time, no one would have followed me, obviously”, he recalled, referring to the creation of his cult show.
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A live coming out
A flourishing journalist, he is also the proud father of a boy in his twenties named Victor with whom he has a very close relationship. “I feel like my son is me better”, he even said.
In 2016, Frédéric Lopez revealed his homosexuality live from his show A thousand and one lives, on France 2, after hearing the testimony of a homosexual father. “Your story touches me particularly because I experienced the same thing. For a very long time, I was afraid of this homosexuality that I felt and, deep down, today, I am someone who accepts, everyone knows it around me but I have never spoken about it publicly and I will never talk about it elsewhere”, he had launched. And to continue: “Just because there are children and teenagers in this country who commit suicide because they feel this way and because you are testifying with your face open, I choose to speak about it publicly. For the only time in my life. I know this will surprise a lot of people but it’s because you inspire me a lot. […] This is the first time I’ve spoken about it and it will be the only time. I have no explanation to give, no justification.”
To this day, Frédéric Lopez lives happy days in the Cévennes.