It’s no secret that Valérie Benaïm is a happy and loving woman. For nine years, she has been a couple with a certain Patrice, nicknamed Patoche in the show Do not touch My TV (C8). If the 52-year-old columnist sometimes agrees to talk about this beautiful idyll, there is no question of bringing her companion to the show presented by Cyril Hanouna. She prefers to preserve her romance. However, there is indeed a photo of them and it dates from 2015.
Indeed, at the time, Valérie Benaïm had gone with Patoche to the Molitor swimming pool, located in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. This sumptuous place hosted many personalities for the New Edge Night, on the occasion of the launch of the new Samsung smartphone, the Galaxy S6 edge +. And the beautiful columnist and her dear and tender were immortalized by the flashes of the photographers. We discover the mother of Tom (21 years old, born from his previous relationship with producer Olivier Hallé) slightly in profile, with a big smile on her lips. Patrice, he is a little behind, a glass in his hand, and looks at the horizon, smiling. A unique photo that should delight fans of Valérie Benaïm.
As she confided in It’s just love May 11, 2020 is “as part of work“that they met. “I was applying for a job as editor-in-chief, that’s how we started talking, we met, and that’s it… We saw each other outside of work, we had a coffee together. I saw him, and I said to myself ‘I like this guy, he’s handsome, there’s something I like about him!“, she said. There is, however, a detail that did not please Valérie Benaïm during their first meeting: a ring that she thought was an alliance. Fortunately, it was not. one, their love story could therefore be born.
And their love hasn’t wavered since. As proof, the first confinement went very well for them. On May 5, 2020, in Tonight at Baba’s, the columnist had once again made rare confidences. “Everything is going very, very well. It strengthens our bonds. That’s wonderful“, she had specified to Cyril Hanouna. And to add that her companion knew how to do everything, including cooking, cleaning or DIY. “It’s a rock. I can tell her everything that’s on my mind, and that’s very important in a relationship.“, she had concluded.
guest in We redo the TV on RTL on January 15, Valérie Benaïm recalled how important it was for her to preserve her privacy. And Cyril Hanouna knows it well. “Cyril is very smart. Because he knows how far he can go with each of the columnists. He knows our limits. My limit is to talk about my private life, my companion, so he flirts with it. (…) He does not want [venir sur le plateau de TPMP, NDLR], I don’t want to, it’s very good that it’s like that: a somewhat fantasized character. One shot it’s a nerdy old history teacher who smokes a pipe, another it’s a tattooed biker… That’s it and whatever, it’s funny, it doesn’t bother me and we won’t go any further only that. These are my limits“, she explained.