Maïté is no more. The good-natured Southern cook became so popular in the 1980s and 1990s thanks to television that to this day, no one has forgotten her. According to information from Actu Landes, the famous restaurateur died last night at the age of 86 in Rion-des-Landes, her hometown.
More than 15 years of success on France 3 for Maïté
It was in 1983 that Marie-Thérèse Ordonez, her real first name, was spotted by a director when she was the favorite cook of the players of the Rion-des-Landes rugby team. Only a few weeks later, she was on France 3 to lead a program which marked several generations entitled The Kitchen of the Musketeersalongside Micheline Banzet-Lawton. The success was such that the culinary program remained on the air for fourteen years, until 1997. That year, Maïté inherited a new program, At the tablewhich she hosted until 1997. The famous restaurateur then migrated to the radio to present Les recipes de Maïté on Sud Radio.
Maïté: from cinema to reality TV
In cinema and television, Maïté had begun a career as an actress at this time. She had acted in two feature films – The Fabulous Destiny of Madame Petlet (1995) et Let there be light! (1998) – as well as on the small screen in the series Van Loc (1995), Kitchendales (2000), and the TV films Victor, site manager (2001) et The man who wanted to be on TV (2005). In 2003, she was among the reality TV candidates Nice Peoplethen participated in My nanny is a celebrity the following year on M6. In 2008, she returned to the big screen to lend her voice to a character in the animated film Mia and the Migou. An emblematic figure of TV, Maïté had impacted popular culture to the point of being parodied by Les Nous Ç Nous and Les Minikeums or even Jérôme Commandeur who parodied a few days ago on Canal+ her cult sequence where she knocked out eels in front of the cameras before cooking them. Maïté lost her only son, Serge, in 2013. One of her two granddaughters, Camille, took part in Top Chef objective in 2018 on M6.
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