Usually very discreet about his children Léon (13 years old) and Lila (10 years old), Jamel Debbouze (46 years old) spoke about his paternity and what had changed for him when he became a dad to the journalists of the newspaper The world. “It changes everything. I just lost mine, I only have my mom. But my father has never been more present than today. When I need to educate my son, very often I think of him.” he confided. In a relationship with Melissa Theuriau since 2007 and married since 2008, the comedian lost his dad Ahmed Touzani in March 2021.
According to the newspaper Opinionhis father died in a hospital in Marrakech following an illness “dazzling” at 71 years old. A few hours after his death, his funeral was celebrated according to Muslim tradition. A very difficult mourning to live for the actor of the film Asterix and Obelix Mission Cleopatra who now understands the feelings his dad may have had in the past since he himself became a father.
As a reminder, the father of Jamel Debbouze was employed at the RATP. His parents decided to leave for Taza, the Moroccan city where they are from, in 1976 when Jamel was 1 year old. They stayed there for two years before returning to France to settle in Trappes. Jamel is the eldest of five boys, Mohamed, Hayat, Karim, Rashid and a girl, Nawel.
In August 2021, the founder of the Jamel Comedy Club had made tender confidences about them during an interview on the show games love you against Patrick Sebastien. “They live in France, they live in the center of Paris, they have this incredible chance to have access to culture. They really bathe in both worldshe revealed. When you go to my mother’s, there are traditions that do not change, starting with gastronomy, bread, dishes, parties”. A great luxury for those who strongly believe in the generation of their children: “They’re going to do a hundred times better than us. Each generation has swept away the one before“
The festival The Marrakech of laughter takes place this year from June 15 to 18, in Morocco.