A true fairy tale… On April 23, 2021, the eyes of Baptiste Germain and Sophie Tapie met for the first time at the Vélodrome. A few months after announcing her divorce from Jean-Mathieu Marinetti, Bernard Tapie's daughter formalized her relationship with the rugby player 12 years her junior in August 2022 and decided to leave everything to join him in the south of France. Since then, everything has happened: the couple had a little boy, César, born on January 27, 2024, before getting married the following July 6. Finally, it was to end the year in style that the athlete and the singer announced on Instagram on October 14 that they were expecting their second child. Thursday November 21, 2024, in an interview with Gala, Baptiste Germain agreed to look back at the beginnings of their story. “We didn't come from the same world. My father is a firefighter and my mother works in schools. We are not in the media, whereas Sophie's last name resonates throughout France. Geographically, we were far from one of the other. Sophie didn’t know rugby at all And then, twelve years separated us…”, he began.
However, this was not a topic afterward. “We talked about it, but we quickly closed the subject. It was just a number,” assured the 24-year-old young man to our colleagues before specifying: “I left young to play rugby , I hang out with older men who are already fathers, so I think I have acquired a certain (…)
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