The tenth season of Best Pastry Chef touches, gently but surely, at its end. On December 23, the semi-final of M6’s gourmet program will already be broadcast. This year again, viewers were able to judge the candidates running each week but also the host. Marie portolano, for whom it was the first season. Indeed, she was appointed to replace Julia Vignali and took great pleasure in carrying out this mission. “I had a blast“, she also recognizes in the pages of Star TV, on newsstands on December 20, 2021.
If the experience was conclusive, it was not the most obvious. And for good reason, Marie Portolano had to resolve to leave her home and especially James, her 6-year-old son, for six long weeks. Instead, she lived near the castle of the filming, which takes place outside Paris, in Yvelines, in the small town of Montfort-l’Amaury. “It is indeed a lot of professional investment and personal ‘sacrifices’. Even though I came home every weekend, I didn’t see my little boy much“, she explained to our colleagues.
Marie Portolano nevertheless took care to include it in her new professional project by bringing it in “two or three times on the set“.”It was so funny, becausehe fell in love with certain candidates and asked me if they were still in competition, if they had not been eliminated“, she remembered.
A very well behaved little boy
Marie Portolano therefore discovered the joys of motherhood six years ago. A role that fulfills her on a daily basis and that she takes very seriously. “I’m a pretty cool mom but very much on his education. I am proud when I am told that he is very well behaved. It is an important key that I offer him for his future“, she confided for Leisure TV at least June.
The former Canal Football Club journalist is however forced to share custody of little James because she is no longer in a relationship with the father. This does not prevent them from maintaining good relations. “We are separated but we get along very well“, she assured during an interview with The world. Since this breakup, Marie Portolano has rebuilt her life with Gregory Ludig. It was in 2017 that their relationship was formalized and two years later, they married, in June 2019.