Every Wednesday, M6 viewers can find Cyril Lignac in The Best Pastry Chef. With Mercotte, they are responsible for judging the candidates’ cakes. As usual, the 45-year-old chef brings his good humor. But, like everyone else, he has his wounds, including a very deep one that dates back to 2014.
If the public is well aware of the professional career of Cyril Lignac, which he highlights in particular on Instagram, his private life is much more secret. Mercotte’s sidekick indeed prefers to remain discreet. But his most loyal fans know that in 2014, he lived through one of life’s worst trials. He has in fact had to deal with the death of his mother Janine which he was very close, during the summer. A drama that he had only mentioned a year later as it was so painful.
During an interview for Release in October 2015, the young dad spoke of the sudden death of his mother at the age of 57 when justifying his desire to move away from television sets to refocus on cooking. “Show biz was never my universe, but until then I lived with lightness“, he had declared. “rather shy“, he had not wished to pour out more. But a month earlier, he explained to theExpress Styles that he “will never erase“, the last SMS he had sent to Janine“gone too soon“.”It ended with: ‘I love you very much.’ I also have a whole series of photos of her in my phone which I look at regularly. They soothe me and remind me of happy memories in Aveyron“, he remembered.
In 2016, Cyril Lignac also agreed to discuss this “bend in [sa] life“ near TV Magazineon the occasion of the promotion of Best Pastry Chef: “I found myself facing a real test in my life, which had never been the case before. I refocused on the essentials. We learn to live differently, perhaps with less levity, by becoming aware of the responsibilities we have. It touched me deep inside. I wondered about life, over time. Then life takes over. I tell myself that she is there all the time, close to me… “