After a first stint on the radio show The Big Heads in the 1990s, Isabelle Alonso then became known to the general public from 2000 by becoming one of the columnists of the show that became cult, We tried everythingon France 2. At the same time, she also joined We’re going to get embarrassed on Europe 1, still with Laurent Ruquier. In recent years, she has been more discreet.
Isabelle Alonso will have been a columnist forWe tried everything until the end of the show, in 2007. If she does not then return to We haven’t said everythingwhich will last just one year, she will briefly find her friend Laurent Ruquier in 2014 in another ephemeral show: The show for everyone. On the small screen, it will then be necessary to wait until 2019 to see it again on our screens. She becomes that year columnist of the section Crush, rage in the daily show I love you etc by Daphné Bürki on France 2. Also in 2019, we also find his name in the magazine Siné Madam. Because yes, if Isabelle Alonso is less present on the small screen, she has however retained her taste for writing.
The novelist has multiplied the publications in recent years: I will die another time (2016), I can do without dawn (2017) or even Real Men are feminists (2021). This last book, Isabelle Alonso defends it in many festivals and literary fairs. She also regularly runs a personal blog. If she relates her daily life, she also reacts to current affairs…
For the past few weeks, she has thus publicly shared her commitment to Nupes, the coalition of left-wing parties for the legislative elections on 12th and 19th June. A movement largely carried by Jean-Luc Mélenchon. “Its mere existence is pleasurable in itself. If it achieves a sufficient majority it will put an end to a policy that I loathe and that is already enormous. And I hope to see initiatives that improve people’s lives. Who will put the human at the heart of the concerns, instead of the cash drawer. Who will play cooperation, sharing, mutual aid, rather than competition and exclusion. That’s what being on the left is. There is so much to do for France to enlighten the world again“, she writes. It remains to be seen whether the ballot boxes will agree with her.