After more than ten years of love with Cyril Vergniol, Stéphane Bern (58) announced their breakup in 2017. Quickly, the former editor-in-chief of the magazine Dynasty appeared publicly with Lionel Bounoua. Very unusual behavior for the show’s host Secrets of History who had waited almost ten years before simply mentioning his ex-companion Cyril in the press. Very in love and this time ready to shout his love for Lionel from the rooftops, Stéphane Bern had nevertheless let himself be trapped by an overmediatization of his couple which was right about his relationship.
Interviewed by Pocket TV in 2020, he told for the first time the reasons for his painful breakup with Lionel, which occurred in April 2019. “You have to recognize that being exposed in spite of yourself when you are the companion of a celebrity, it’s wreaking havoc!“, confided the 58-year-old host, before putting it into perspective: “Well, that’s how it is. Fortunately, I have a nature that has always allowed me to take things on the bright side.“
As a reminder, the couple appeared long after their meeting, even making the front page of the magazine Paris Match. “This cover had an effect that I had not expected: ruin my privacy. It is violent for the other to be thus exposed“, he confided to Telerama.
Interviewed by the journalists of the show I love you etc.. (France 2) on October 19, 2020, the former host of 8:10 p.m. sharp now declared to be single “intermittently“. Facetious, he added: “Commitment question, I am married to France, it’s my Joan of Arc side.”