As a couple from 1991 to 1997, Laurent Gerra and Virginie Lemoine met on the show Nothing to wax on France Inter in the early 90s. Stars of a comic duo on the show studio gabriel, the couple had finally made the decision to interrupt their professional collaboration on the screen following their breakup after 6 years of love. “I made the decision to stop because there was no more risk taking. We had very effective texts, we made people laugh immediately and we knew it. Laurent was sad about it but he let me go with great elegance“, had confided the actress to Pocket TV in 2016.
Since their breakup, the comedians have rebuilt their lives. Laurent Gerra has been in a relationship since 2012 with Christelle Bardet. Founder of the magazine Women, this pretty blonde now manages the communication of her partner whom she met thanks to Michel Drucker. After several years of living together, they became parents of a little girl named Célestine, born on August 24, 2020. Very discreet, the lovers are not used to exposing themselves publicly. They were displayed in front of photographers for the first time during the Cannes Film Festival in 2015.
For her part, Virginie Lemoine has shared her life with Darius Kehtari since 2002. Also modest, they rarely appear in public. Few present at official events, the couple had nevertheless posed on the red carpet of Monte Carlo at the 24th ceremony of the Night of Molières. In love, she invited her companion to join her in the series Host family. “In the last episode of the season, I will find myself playing with my companion in life, comedian Darius Kehtari!“, she had revealed at the time to the magazine TV 7 days.
A partner who also cured the actress of her eating disorders. Victim of anorexia, she revealed how her breakup with Laurent Gerra had upset her, but also how her new darling had pushed her to seek treatment. “My weight problems started when I stopped my duet with Laurent Gerra. They lasted until I met my partner, comedian Darius Kehtari, eight years ago. I had then lost 17 kg. The day he said to me: ‘if you don’t eat, I’ll leave you’, I started eating again. I did not realize, at that time, the risks I was running“, she explained to France Evening in 2010.