At 3e Oeil Productions, everyone calls her “Babeth” and praises her calm.
With seven programs to prepare this week, and more than 10 hours of air, the one who is now the official presenter of the Grand Échiquier on France 2 has a busy schedule.
“This is not the time to flinch, she concedes when arriving at the Lendit studios in Saint-Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis) where the rehearsals have started.
We hold on to adrenaline.
"
Sparkling heels, pink blouse and navy jacket, when "Babeth" shows up on the stage where André Manoukian dissects Serge Gainsbourg with Nicolas Guiraud's symphony orchestra, everything lights up.
This Saturday evening, she welcomes Francis Cabrel, Thomas Dutronc, Olivia Ruiz, Maxime Leforestier, François Morel, to name a few.
“Receiving artists that we love, who are happy to come and see us, that can only inspire joy,” she enthuses.
Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine, a few minutes before the live broadcast of “C à vous”.
LP / Delphine Goldsztejn
Barely visible bracelets on her wrist that she wears every time.
"I'm superstitious, you know," she laughs.
These bracelets make my stylist scream, who finds them hideous, but these are my charms.
I also put them on when I take the plane.
She also insisted on occupying the same lodge as when she replaced Anne-Sophie Lapix, suffering from Covid, in early February.
"She always has the same ritual"
But let's rewind the film: early afternoon, Wednesday.
The technical team is agitated around the plateau of "6 at home".
Eddy de Pretto rehearses his live, Bertrand Chameroy his chronicle.
Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine is invisible.
Locked in her dressing room, she revises her files, before recording the program which will be broadcast in the evening on La Deux.
"She always has the same ritual," provide hairdresser and makeup artist.
She arrives, she
hug
us
(Editor's note: she hugs us)
.
She brushes her teeth, chooses how she wants to dress.
And she is always sweet ... "
Perched on 10 cm of heels, the interested party reaches the plateau where the technicians await her for the final adjustments.
Elbow checks, knowing looks, "Babeth" takes news of the daughter of one, asks the other for physiotherapy advice.
"She has a word for everyone," assures a member of her team.
"If it were up to me, all seven cameras would be on you," another jokes to the presenter.
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Silence plateau, it turns.
For 1h30, Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine distributes the floor, questions, reacts.
Crush a tear while listening to the testimonies of Samuel Le Bihan and Hélène de Fougerolles, both parents of autistic children.
Laughs about anecdotes by Lorànt Deutsch and Philippe Besson about Napoleon.
When the show is over, she writes down the launch and records it immediately.
"It's okay, you can take your shoes off," a cameraman teases her.
“Ah!
Have you seen me suffer?
We don't.
The host leaves the stage, throwing happily: “Come on, the movers!
"
In record time, the “6 à la maison” board is transformed to welcome “C à vous”.
LP / Delpine Goldsztejn
Because while she returns to prepare for the 7 pm live stream, the technicians transform the cozy cocoon of "6 at home", her (false) view of Paris by night and its late-evening light, into a design and refined dining room. for "C to you".
The coffee tables are repacked, the carpets rolled up, the bed wrapped in cellophane.
We expected that it would be the race, that everyone shouts, runs ... To dismantle a plate to put up another one in less than two hours, nevertheless, there would be something to get excited about.
Not at all !
As if "Babeth" spreads a sort of quiet energy in her wake.
She reappears two hours later, powder pink jeans, spring blouse and black heels.
She looks calm, but her foot frantically beats the measure within 5 minutes of taking the antenna.
Same impatience this Saturday evening.
“The set is magnificent,” says Babeth.
We are privileged: it's life before, it's galvanizing.
"
