If we are not used to seeing her evolve in such a context, Valérie Trierweiler, who recently registered with Pôle Emploi, is indeed part of the cast of the show Beijing Express, shock duos, the first episode of which was broadcast on M6 on July 6. The rest of the program is to be found this evening on the channel, with therefore the presence of the journalist, who came without his companion Romain Magellan.
“I have refused, in the past, to do several reality TV shows. Beijing Express is a show that I love, that I watch. The idea was to share this adventure with my best friend” she had explained in order to justify her participation. But if she seems very enthusiastic about this new project, she also spoke of her dissatisfaction in the pages of Gala regarding the way she was presented by the show.
Because for information, she has was introduced as “former first lady“, following his former history with François Hollande, President of the French Republic from 2012 to 2017.”My career as a political journalist didn’t go as far as it should have. It was interrupted because of my relationship. But I’m not just that, I’m still a journalist and mother of three children”, she got annoyed.
“We talk again”
But it is true that this relationship has marked the spirits a lot. In September 2014, the former journalist of Paris Match talked about it at length through his book Thank you for this moment, when she had been separated from him for a few months following multiple twists in their relationship, including the affair of the president at the time with actress Julie Gayet, with whom he has since married. The former first lady then made unfriendly remarks against her ex-companion.
But water seems to have flowed under the bridge since as she hinted in 2017, in The New Edition on Canal +, that she got along rather well with the politician. She revealed that she had got”a tear of sadness“for him during his transfer of power from Emmanuel Macron.”Because I know what politics means in his life” she added. This led the journalist to say a little more about his friendly relations with François Hollande, and in particular about their meeting in secret.
“Nothing is true in what you can read in the media. We’re talking again, we saw each other again without anyone knowing and we talked half an hour before the handover“, she confided, before adding that she asked him by message to wish him “good luck” before ceremony. She described their relationship as “appeased“. It remains to be seen whether they are still on very good terms today. That’s all we wish for them!