While Cyril Hanouna took time off from the air for the summer after a new year full of twists and events, it was Benjamin Castaldi who took over to host Do not touch My TV. Each evening live, the host analyzes the latest information and is of course accompanied by a band of columnists. Jean-Michel Maire in particular currently has the opportunity to regain his place around the table, he who had not been there for several months. And Thursday, July 7, 2022, the 60-year-old made a big announcement.
When Benjamin Castaldi asked him how he was, Jean-Michel Maire could only answer in the affirmative, so excited is he for the happy event he is about to experience and which concerns his son. “I am very well. (…) I’m getting my son married in a few days…Saturday more precisely“, he let go, a smile on his face. “No that’s not true ! Congratulation ! Oh it’s beautiful!“, then enthused Benjamin Castaldi, who should in turn attend the wedding of one of his sons in 2023.
It is very rare that Jean-Michel Maire confides in his life as a dad. We do know that he had two children, a girl (whose age is unknown) and therefore a boy (who would be 28 years old). In April 2020, the columnist had agreed to deliver exceptionally in the show Tonight at Baba’s, in the midst of the Covid-19 epidemic. “I reflect on my life as a dad. I think I was not present enough for my children. I’m thinking about them particularly at the moment because I don’t see them, for fear of contaminating them. The period weighs on me. In addition, my children write to me a lot and I tell myself that I may have missed something very important. And that, I regret“, he confessed.
Jean-Michel Maire explained that he especially had the impression of having been an absent father for his son: “I started from the principle a little old that a boy is more independent. To my daughter, I tell her all the time that I love her, whereas I never tell my son. Obviously I love him very much, but I never told him, out of modesty, I think“. The journalist is in any case more than ever happy for his child who is going to get married and will certainly be present on D-Day!