The host of It starts today Faustine Bollaert spoke about the few friends she has made in the television industry since the start of her career.
Faustine Bollaert prefers to live far from rhinestones and glitter! The host, very popular thanks to her show It starts todaywho has been making the afternoon hours of France 2 for almost eight years, confided in a portrait that our colleagues from Paris Match dedicated to her in the edition on newsstands this Thursday, January 16, 2025. The 45-year-old presenter talks in particular about her family life, but also her relationships with other personalities in the television industry, in which she began her career at the start of the 2000s.
Faustine Bollaert talks about her very few friends in the television industry
Faustine Bollaertthus ensures that his friends in the world of media can be counted “on the fingers of one hand”and reveals in the columns of the magazine, the names of the two personalities to whom she is closest. We thus find Julien Arnaud – who took over the reins of Telematin on France 2 with Flavie Flament, last school year – but also the host of the Star Academy and of The Voice Nikos Aliagas. Questioned by our colleagues, Faustine Bollaert gives her view on her image of “kind” in the ruthless world of television: “I think kindness is ultimately a strength, because it can be disarming. I always tell my children to be genuinely interested in people and that they will receive kindness in return.“, she assured.
Faustine Bollaert confides in her brother, who fell ill during his childhood
The companion of the novelist Maxime Chattam also spoke about her childhood and in particular the significant period during which her older brother Charles fell ill, following an anesthesia error. “Even today, I am ultra-protective of him. He often tells me that I am more his big sister than his little sister. In fact, I have the instinct of a lioness: you must not touch a hair of my tribe.“, she says about the one who, now cured, has moved to the United States.
