the star cook of the small screen was 86 years old

While it is currently parodied brilliantly by Jérôme Commandeur in his humorous program The magical world of Jérôme Commandeuron Canal +, the famous cook Maïté is once again on everyone's lips and in everyone's thoughts: she has unfortunately just joined the stars at 86 years old.

Goodbye Maïté…

This is the site Actu.frvia its editorial staff in Landes, which relates the death of Maïté this Saturday, December 21. “The village of Rion-des-Landes has lost its icon. Maïté, whose real name is Marie-Thérèse Ordonez, died on the night of Friday December 20 to Saturday December 21, News Landes learns. She was 86 years old“, we can read from our colleagues.

For the moment, we do not know the cause of the death of the woman who had become very popular with the French thanks to her show which has become cult, The Musketeers' Kitchenthen broadcast on FR3. A culinary show in which she had Micheline as an accomplice and which gave rise to unforgettable sequences like the one where Maïté mercilessly knocks out eels!

Television and cooking, two passions also shared by his granddaughter, Camille Ordonez, whom viewers were able to discover in 2018 as a participant in the program Top Chef objectivehosted by Philippe Etchebest on M6. “I was asked to imitate my grandmother. There was his cult phrase: 'It doesn't say woodcock'. I was asked to say it like her. With the same confidence“, revealed Camille, a bit annoyed by this request from the production, in 2022, on the set of It starts today.

The difficult end of Maïté's life in recent years

Maïté, who opened two restaurants in the Landes – The Relais des Landes in the 1980s then At Maïté – had chosen to leave the media spotlight in 2010. “She is enjoying her family retirement with us, still in her village of Rion-des-Landes. This media side has passed him by. In 2010, she chose to retire“, revealed his granddaughter on France 2.

In 2023, Actu.fr revealed that Maïté had been forced to live in an EHPAD in Rion-des-Landes due to her very declining health. At the time, the site specified that she was suffering from a neurodegenerative disease.