For its issue of Saturday April 2, 2022, the team ofWe are live organized a special set, on the eve of the presidential elections. Indeed, in front of the usual animators Laurent Ruquier and Léa Salamé, eighteen political editorialists of all stripes stood out, the objective being to respect the opinions of the entire political spectrum. A tricky exercise but which went off without a hitch, to the delight of the presenters. Among the political specialists, a particular duo stood out: Nathalie Saint-Cricq and her son, Benjamin Duhamel.
Not displaying their kinship during the talk show We are live, Nathalie Saint-Cricq and her big child Benjamin Duhamel, however, posed together for the photographers of the show, displaying a sweet complicity. It is easy to imagine the pride of this passionate about politics that is the 60-year-old journalist – whom we see regularly on France 2 – to participate in a debate on the presidential elections, not far from her son. The latter, working for BFMTV, was able to defend his points of view with polite pugnacity, arguing with passion but without any aggressiveness. Like mother, like son!
The virus of political journalism, her husband Patrice Duhamel (76 years old) and she undeniably transmitted it to their son, Benjamin Duhamel. The latter is also the nephew of Alain Duhamel, alongside whom he officiates on the famous news channel continuously. Indeed, this young man is one of the political journalists of BFMTV, while his uncle is one of the editorial writers. If his father Patrice worked as an antenna director for France 2 in 1998 for a year, Benjamin Duhamel preferred the competitors TF1, LCI and BFMTV. He also went through the RTL house. Like his mother whose family is the majority shareholder of the group New Republic from the Centre-Ouest, he was trained at Sciences Po Paris, thus posting a well-filled CV on his Twitter account which he regularly maintains.
With his very clear eyes, Benjamin Duhamel analyzes political life and is very discreet about his private life. However, he had referred to his parents in C the weekly on France 5 in 2020. After the broadcast of a subject on summer camps, he had replied to the host of the show on his experience of this type of stay when he was a child: “No, I wasn’t there, I was probably too brooded over by my parents who didn’t want me to go.“