this tender promise made to his deceased mother

Faithful to the post for the final of Best Pastry Chefbroadcast this Thursday, January 9 on M6Cyril Lignac remains marked by the death of his mother in 2014. Before she took her last breath, the chef promised her to become a big name in French gastronomy.

Behind his broad smile and his constant good humor in the competition The Best Pastry Chef the final of which is broadcast this Thursday, January 9 on M6Cyril Lignac hides a deep wound. Since 2014, the famous chef has been trying to overcome the death of his mother, Janine Gazeau. “We hit where it could hurt the most. And we never recover from that”he confided in the show As an asidebroadcast in January 2022 on CANAL+. And for good reason, Mercotte’s sidekick had a close relationship with the one who gave him life and passed on his passion for eating well. “My mother built me, it’s my foundation, my DNA”he indicated, with great emotion to our colleagues at Our Time July 28, 2021. Before diving back into his memories: “What shaped me was all the time I spent with her and my sister in the kitchen making cakes, including the famous marbled one.”

The kitchen having quickly become his “refuge”, Leo’s father was quick to express his wish to be a cook to his mother. An announcement which shocked the latter. “She had tears in her eyes. And she wasn’t wrong, mothers have a sixth sense…”he recalled during this interview. Once his professional project was revealed, Cyril Lignac then made a beautiful promise to his mother on the occasion of his fortieth birthday. “I will revolutionize French cuisine”, he wrote in a birthday card. And to add: “Through these words, I wanted to please her and tell her that I was going to fight to make her proud of me. Looking back, it makes me smile.” Recognized chef and accomplished presenter, Cyril Lignac has indeed kept his commitment.

Cyril Lignac: this memory of his deceased mother that he keeps preciously

Following the death of his mother, Cyril Lignac saw his world collapse. “Dying at 56 is too early… The relationship with her is the most essential thing I had in my life”he confided to Liberation in April 2020. “All the common sense advice she gave me… She allowed me to go through the paths of perdition that one can encounter on TV… or, rather, with notoriety.”

Still very affected by this disappearance, the one who was David Guetta’s chef then finds comfort in the last message sent to him by his mother. As he confided in the columns of L’Express Stylesin 2015, Cyril Lignac carefully kept her last SMS. “He ended with: ‘I love you very much’”he explained. And this is not the only memory that the famous pastry chef continues to cherish. “I also have a whole series of photos of her in my phone, which I look at regularly”he added. Tender photos that regularly make him smile again. “They soothe me and remind me of happy memories in Aveyron”he concluded.