Stéphane Bern, host of France Télévisions, will try to join the municipal council of Thiron-Gardais (Eure-et-Loir) “The mayor has just resigned, three advisors are missing and I was asked to joined the team,” he tells Le Parisien. “I have been living full-time in this village of less than 1,000 inhabitants for three years.

I'm not a Sunday dweller. At some point you have to get involved,’ he says.