“I’m going to be moved to tears because it’s a victory for me!” Christine Bravo still can’t believe it! His art deco boat called the “Frou Frou” in reference to his former show was chosen to receive a delegation of athletes for the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games on July 26. A real happy ending for an adventure that started very badly. “If I had known, damn it, I would never have bought it in 2018! I got scammed because there were holes in the hull”says Christine Bravo in Le Parisien Sunday this May 5.
“The ‘Frou-frou’ spent nine months in the shipyard. Then, we did very heavy transformation work to be able to accommodate passengers. All of this was finished just before Covid left us docked”continues the former host. “Our commercial activity was just starting. We had zero turnover, so we had zero help”explains in the columns of Parisian Sunday the one who wanted to organize prestige cruises on the Seine aboard this boat. “I left all the life insurance that I intended to leave to my children. Anyone in my place would have thrown in the towel!”says the 68-year-old former TV star, proud to have held on.
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Will she be on board the “Frou Frou” during the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games? “Unfortunately no. They carried out morality investigations and you can imagine that I failed! More seriously, for security reasons, there will only be the captain and his sailor on board”, replies Christine Bravo. She will experience the event from another boat. “At the forefront since I live on a barge, moored not far from Notre-Dame. The boats will pass just a few meters away. There is a rumor of quotas of ten guests”confides Laurent Ruquier’s sidekick.
“I find it normal that there are limits for security reasons. But 10 is too few, 25 seems more acceptable. Am I not going to have to choose among my children and my grandchildren?”she quips in Le Parisien Sunday. Before concluding with his trademark frankness: “If they persist with their idea of quotas, we will block the Seine with all our barges, like the farmers!” The organizers have been warned!
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