Laurent Delahousse has it all.
The one who has presented the
Journal de 20h
de France 2 for more than fifteen years refuses to be reduced to his physique or his famous blond hair.
In an interview published in the March 16 issue of
Society
magazine , the 53-year-old journalist reaffirms that he is not just a blow-dry.
“What does it feel like to be categorized as the handsome boy of the paf?”, Ask him nevertheless our colleagues.
Question to which the animator kicks in touch: “It makes me think of a very nice interview with Romy Schneider, who replied: “I don't know, say so, the face I have! Listen, you are exaggerating.
How do you want to answer this question?” he replies, before admitting that his appearance has contributed to his notoriety: “Afterwards, I am not fooled: my capillarity has been part of my career.
I spoke about it one day with the singer Christophe, who said that his mane had done a lot.
He said: "Let the nauseating words and the criticisms live. The main thing is to enjoy your art."
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Advice that Laurent Delahousse first had trouble applying.
“It takes time to take a little distance with all that”, he continues in the interview, “at the beginning, we are a little disturbed.
We say to ourselves: "Shit, I do 300 minutes on the air every weekend, I have been producing documentaries for fifteen years, I spend my life in the editing room, I work six days a week, I have real links with my teams and when I give interviews, well the first three questions, I know them, what”, he laments, referring to the perpetual remarks on his beauty or his haircut.
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Already in 2013, the companion of Alice Taglioni did not hide his annoyance vis-à-vis these gossip about him.
"I don't want to be a character.
I am a journalist!
That the first takes precedence over the second saddens me”, he declared in the columns of the magazine
Télé Star
.
And to add: “I know what I represent and what I can release, but I do not have the impression of playing it.
I don't overexpose myself, and yet I can tell you that there isn't a week where I haven't been approached by a men's magazine”.
The following year, in the show
C à vous
on France 5, he defined himself as “the least well-groomed guy on television today and the one whose hair is talked about the most”.
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