Singer Philippe Katerine hit the headlines this summer after his performance naked and painted blue during the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games. Difficult to imagine that the crazy artist belongs to the family of the austere Minister of the Interior LR Bruno Retailleau. And yet… The genealogy site geneanet.org cross-referenced its data to affirm that the two men are distant cousins, revealed The Western Mail last week.
“They did the thing”
With a lot of humor, Philippe Katerine reacted to this “revelation” during his weekly column on France Inter, this Thursday. He made a point of recalling that many celebrities shared common roots: Beyoncé and Elisabeth II, Robert Ménard and Emmanuel Macron, Pascal Légitimus and Laurent Voulzy… Against the backdrop of the famous Gym Tonic hit ToutoutouyououtouPhilippe Katerine sings: “ I am the cousin of a dubious celebrity, Bruno Retailleau (…) This is the 8e generation. In 1779, just before the Vendée War, two of our ancestors did the thing and here we are in 2024, cousins. »
Before inventing his childhood in the same family as the minister… and at the same time attacking him on his migration policy: “ I remember little Bruno, even though he is eight years older than me (…) He spoke better than anyone could ever speak but was already saying rubbish… like: no, immigration is not an opportunity for France. » Comments made by the minister at the end of September, when he said he wanted to reduce the number of regularizations of undocumented immigrants in the country.
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