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Alongside his partner, a former model converted to communications, five-time Olympic champion Teddy Riner will begin hosting Love is Blind, an American reality TV show which will be adapted in France.
From kimonos to cameras. Double gold medalist at the last Paris Olympics, Teddy Riner, is embarking on a new challenge. The 35-year-old judoka is currently filming for the show Love is Blind, in which around fifteen men and women converse in two adjoining rooms without meeting, and try to see if the connection passes between them first, for the winners, to marry.
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An adventure that Teddy Riner has embarked on with his wife, Luthna Plocus, who will co-host with him the show launched in 2020 in the United States, adapted and broadcast in France by Netflix in 2025.
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First friends, Teddy Riner and Luthna Plocus met in 2007, while she was working in the communications department of Lagardère Unlimited. Last year, the judoka explained: “Without her, nothing is possible. She helps me preserve my sleep, watches over my nutrition, organizes family life”, but Luthna Plocus retorts: “I am neither his secretary, nor his little mother We are a balanced and interchangeable duo, he won them alone!
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Actress and model before moving into communications, Luthna Plocus participated in a few video clips. The couple, who have always wanted to stay away from media agitation, have two children: a boy, Eden, born in 2014, and a girl, Ysis, born in 2018.
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