“She has a bit of a Céline Dion side”: Frédéric Lopez marked by his meeting with Laury Thilleman

From the summer of 2025, Laury Thilleman succeeds Raphaël de Casabianca in the presentation of Meet in unknown land. She was specially chosen by Frédéric Lopez who spoke about this decision in front of the cameras of It's up to you.

From the summer of 2025, Raphaël de Casabianca will give his place to the presentation of Rendezvous in unknown land to Laury Thilleman. It was Frédéric Lopez, founder of the program and still co-producer, who announced the big news to the former Miss France. In fact, the journalist specially chose him to take over the show, he explains this decision in front of the television cameras. C to youThursday November 21. “We met in front of the television cameras, we had never met and she had an impact on me because she has a Quebecois side, a bit Celine Dion”explains Frédéric Lopez. “It’s an open book. She tells everything, she is very connected to her emotions and she manages to communicate them very, very well.”

The presenter of A Sunday in the Country adds that he was “captured by its authenticity”. “Because in fact, none of us have been Miss France. But I felt like I understood what this experience was like.”. He claims that “going from student to the most publicized woman in France” could have been very brutal for Laury Thilleman. Frédéric Lopez then explains that he was invited to his podcast, How do you do it? While the duo had fun making pancakes, during the interview he discovered that the beauty queen was interested in important themes. “I thought it was very profound. Because she has a very sunny side and at the same time she is in search of meaning and I really liked that.”

Frédéric Lopez touched by Kendji Girac talking about his accident in A Sunday in the Country

On the set of C to youFrédéric Lopez returns to the interview with Kendji Girac, which he received recently in A Sunday in the Country. He explains that the singer agreed to talk about his accident which almost cost him his life. “My colleagues have the guests on the phone. Between 1 hour and 3 hours sometimes, to ask them questions about what they haven't said yet in the press. And the first question we ask them is 'is there a subject you don't want to discuss?'”explains the host in front of the France 5 cameras. He then adds that it was Kendji Girac himself who decided to discuss this event. “He didn’t talk about that subject. Which means that when we meet, I say 'we can't talk about this news item', but it wouldn't have shocked me if he didn't talk about it because it's very personal and he turns out he chose to talk about it. And you will see what he said. It touched me a lot”concluded the journalist.