Jean-Luc Delarue died at the age of 48, from stomach cancer, on August 23, 2012. The opportunity to return to the love stories of the famous animator, whose life was sometimes so dark. While his last wife Anissa Khel – whom he married three months before his death, in his home in Belle-Île-en-mer – was in the spotlight, he also had a romance with Elisabeth Bost, ex-columnist of C8. She is the mother of her only son, Jean (15). Before that, Jean-Luc Delarue was in a relationship with the Spanish model Inès Sastre, with whom he had a “thunderbolt“immediate, and experienced an express romance.
But a more unknown story, that of his first love: Elsa. Who is she ? Who is the one who made the heart of Jean-Luc Delarue vibrate for the first time?
It’s in the book Jean-Luc Delarue the star who did not love himself of Vincent Meslet, that we discover the portrait of this one. “Too young, not qualified enough, too provincial“, this is how Maryse, the mother of Jean-Luc Delarue, denigrates her. She cannot stand seeing her son with her. Elsa, the host met her in the Camargue, in 1993, she is 18, 28, and is in love with someone else, but he ends up seducing her.
Her mother Maryse denigrates her
After agreeing to come to Paris, she nevertheless refuses to settle down with him and prefers to share a studio with a friend. Elsa loves literature, music, and is from a family totally different from his. Indeed, her parents, merchants, adore their daughter, of whom they are proud. They will make many trips together, such as the one to Argentina with only their backpacks. This companion, as Vincent Meslet writes, “feeds his boundless curiosity, his greed to live a thousand lives through others“. Elsa also attends the Florent course, next to her BTS, and discovers with amazed eyes the world of television. Which pleases Jean-Luc Delarue a lot. In the eyes of those responsible for the environment in which the animator evolves , “Elsa sheds new light on Jean-Luc, making him more human, more generous, more solar“.
The starting point of a very full love life for Jean-Luc Delarue…