For several years, Olivier Minne remained evasive when questioned about his private life, and more specifically about his sexual orientation. The one we find at the animation of “Fort Boyard” since 2003 called himself “heteromo”, a little play on words of his own to evoke his bisexuality. In June 2017, the former host of “Télématin” confided in an interview with BuzzFeed: “I used this pirouette because I didn’t want to deny the stories I had with women“, he related.
But lately, Olivier Minne felt the need to assume frankly: “Today, I would define myself as gay. I never went through this phase of concealment because everything happened quietly in a family that didn’t ask questions about it. I never felt the need to coming out when I was younger because homophobic speech was probably less liberated. I didn’t see how that could change anything and it’s probably a mistake on my part” he had explained.
The one who settled in the United States when he went through a slump in his career came back in the columns of Télé 2 Semaines on the reasons for this coming out. “It was not the object of any planning or calculation. I probably felt the need to say it, without me wondering more about the question. It is true that there had been the episode of Marriage for all with all that it had generated as demonstrations. But you know, I’m a very discreet person”, he explained. And to conclude:I was raised in discretion. In my family, we don’t ‘bring back our strawberries’. At the beginning of my career, I had to do violence to myself several times to talk about my childhood or my adolescence, because I find it incorrect. I’m not saying I’m right to think so, but that’s how it is.“