It’s a special week that Faustine Bollaert is offering, in It starts today (France 2). The 45-year-old presenter has the pleasure of receiving personalities who come to talk about a significant moment in their lives. This Wednesday, October 16, 2024, she invited three personalities from the successful series Such a big sun (France 3), including Mrs. Tanga.
“I am the lawyer Hugo Touré. I collaborate with the police and I am in a relationship with Gaëla who plays the role of Sabine Becker“, confided the 55-year-old man when presenting his character in Such a big sun. But it’s not the series that Bibi Tanga came to talk about. He actually spoke about his childhood. The opportunity to discover that it is called “Welcome to the base“. “It was my mother who called me Bibi, my father too, so I was always called that. Tanga is my father’s name, it means foreigner“, he revealed.
Then, Bibi Tanga revealed the origin of her first name. An anecdote that leaves you speechless: “My father is my grandmother’s third child, she had seven. But between the first two children she had so many miscarriages that in their time, there was this sort of tradition of trying to find a solution So when she got pregnant with my father, they decided to leave her in another tribe. This ethnic group considered that it was their child and that the unborn child would cure her of all her miscarriages. On the other hand, this child, once he arrives in the world, we will consider that he is not of your ethnicity but of ours, therefore that he is a foreigner. So when my father was born, they called him Tanga. . Then, my grandmother had 5 children (…) That’s why I’m proud to have that name..”
A rich life in Moscow for Bibi Tanga
The years passed, then it was his dad’s turn to have children. A tribe who experienced a very wealthy life during his time as a diplomat: “I ate caviar as a child, because my father was a diplomat. At the time, in the 70s, we traveled a lot. He was first in France, then in Moscow for a while. I was about 4 years old. All African states that were in contact with the Soviet Union were well received. We lived in a large apartment. I did my kindergarten there. And we ate caviar almost every day. But I realized this privilege in France, at the age of 15-16.“
But, when he was around 9 years old, his lifestyle completely changed. No more daily caviar. He and his family arrived in France, in a disadvantaged neighborhood of Sevran. Years he will never forget. “Cold shower, but in a good way. There was this coup d’état, my father stopped working. (…) More moneyanother life. Well, it seems that this is where the best years of my life began (…) We found ourselves with my brothers and sisters being able to be together more often and to keep friends. I still have my friends from Sevran. There was no money, but those were the best years of my life“, he concluded.
