Since the very first season of Best Pastry Chef broadcast in 2012 on M6, Mercotte forms a terrific duo with Cyril Lignac. The 79-year-old host and food critic is back for a new season this Wednesday, September 7, 2022. But on a daily basis, far from the cameras, it is with her husband that she shares her daily life.
Already almost six decades that Mercotte spins perfect love with André-Jean Mercorelli. It all started in the early 1960s for the couple. Jacqueline Pin, her real name, meets the man who will become the man of her life on a tennis court. He was young skydiver and after only a few months of love, they pass a case: that of marriage. Then, André-Jean Mercorelli known as “Merco” becomes rally driver and the charming blonde follows him in his career. So much so that the duo participate together in car races across France.
“I didn’t know how to cook an egg when I got married!”
“I got married, I had four children in stride, so it’s good, we spend ten years…“, Mercotte had confided to Faustine Bollaert on the set of It starts today in December 2020. It must be said that this family life takes up space. “We don’t have much time to be interested in cooking… It takes a lot of time“, she had declared. Moreover, at the very beginning of her relationship with her husband, Mercotte did not have the level that she requires of participants in the Best Pastry Chef ! “When I got married I didn’t even know how to cook an egg! I assume… But it doesn’t matter, I learned“, she had confessed, indicating that it was not necessary to ask her”only ham shells“!
Today, she is the one who challenges strangers on television with her recipes, each one more technical than the next. And if her four children have grown up well, her grandchildren must undoubtedly enjoy the delicious meals she cooks at home, just like her dear and tender husband André-Jean Mercorelli!