Why did she move away from television sets?

Maïté, the most famous cook, died at the age of 86. After more than twenty years spent on the small screen, the restaurateur decided to move away from television sets.

Maïté left us at the age of 86. The star cook of the small screen died on the night of Friday December 20 to Saturday December 21, 2024, according to information from the site News Landes confirmed by RTL. The French restaurateur made history on the small screen thanks to the duo she formed with Micheline Banzet-Lawton. Together, they hosted the culinary show The Musketeers' Kitchen for more than ten years. Despite the end of the program, which offered us numerous cult sequences, Maïté continued her career in the audiovisual sector by participating in the shows It's not rocket science, Nice People or even My nanny is a celebrity as well as animating At the table on France 3. In 2010, twenty-seven years after her television debut, the cook decided to retire from media life.

Death of Maïté: This tragedy pushed the famous cook to devote herself fully to her family life

Far from television sets, Maïté experienced the terror of every mother: the death of her only son. Serge, born from his love affair with “Pierrot”, died in 2013 from cancer. Following his disappearance, the cook chose to take refuge in her house in Rion-des-Landes and devote herself fully to her two granddaughters, Perrine and Camille, then aged 13 and 11. And to make matters worse, the Dax commercial court ordered the judicial liquidation of his restaurant Chez Maïté in the spring of 2015.

“She is enjoying her retirement with her family” : his granddaughter Camille gave her news on the show It starts today

Maïté's last television appearance dates back to the documentary At the table with politicians by Frédéric Lepage in 2007. Years after retiring from the audiovisual sector, his granddaughter Camille Ordonez gave his news when she participated in a new issue of It starts today. “She is doing very well. She is enjoying her retirement as a family with us, still in her village of Rion des Landes. This media side has passed to her. In 2010, she chose to retire”confided the young woman who had participated in the show Top Chef objective in 2018. The budding cook then remembered the good times spent with her illustrious grandmother. “When she looked after us in the evening, she could make my sister and me a roast chicken for two.”

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