What is going on between Jean Dujardin and Nathalie Péchalat?

“After careful consideration, Nathalie Péchalat made the decision to pack up.” Ten years after their love at first sight, Jean Dujardin and Nathalie Péchalat would have separated. In any case, this is what reveals Here is in its issue of Friday September 27. According to information from the celebrity magazine, the 40-year-old skater is behind this breakup. “Jean Dujardin has been devastated since Nathalie Péchalat left him,” we read on the weekly’s website.

It seems that there had been disagreements between the duo for some time. “Their relationship had been struggling for some time. In recent weeks, they had decided to live on two different floors in their house in Montretout in order to give themselves a little time and space to think,” confides a close friend of the couple to Here is. “A semblance of a solution which quickly proved untenable, reaching a point of no return on September 21.” The next day, the former ice dancing champion would have definitively left their home to move into a new apartment with their two daughters, Jeanne (8 years old) and Alice (3 years old), “leaving the actor alone and completely distraught “.

“Jean doesn’t understand”

For Jean Dujardin, this separation would be a massive blow. Especially since the renovation of the second home they had purchased in Gironde, in Soulac-sur-Mer where the actor has his roots, was finally completed. “Jean does not understand the reasons for this breakup,” continues an intimate, still in the columns of Here is. However, Nathalie Péchalat would be angry with her husband for having favored his career over hers. “She criticizes him for not having supported her during the Olympic Games while she was president of Club France, then for having done two shoots abroad in quick succession (the series Zorro in Spain, then The shrinking man in Belgium), leaving her very alone,” insists this same source.

Proof of their distancing? Taking a closer look at their Instagram accounts, both seem to be focused on their careers. While Jean Dujardin is promoting his latest cinema projects, Nathalie Péchalat has not stopped communicating about the Olympic Games in her capacity as deputy president of Club France. Without ever appearing together. The last mention of the ex-skater to the actor dates back, for example, to October 2023 when she celebrated the release of the television series Alphonsein which Dujardin plays the title role.

To put the pieces back together, in August, the interpreter of Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath would have tried everything to win back his wife. In vain. Now separated, the couple have already agreed on shared custody and are keen to manage their disagreements with lawyers, discreetly.

Love at first sight on TV

Between Jean Dujardin and Nathalie Péchalat, it all started in 2013. That year, the famous actorOne guy, one girl – at the peak of his career since the release of The Artist a year earlier – is stationed in front of his television when he falls in love with the skater Nathalie Péchalat. During a magazine interview ELLE he confided in March 2016: “When I saw Nathalie, my wife, on television – I didn’t see her skating but talking – she charmed me. And in that moment, I chose my life. I took control of myself, I asked myself what I wanted, where I was, and presto, I went for it!”

This live love at first sight will quickly turn into a beautiful love story. Nathalie Péchalat and Jean Dujardin will have two daughters together: Jeanne, born December 5, 2015, and Alice, born February 18, 2021. Before getting married in 2018. The actorOSS 117 was already the father of two sons, Jules (born in 2000), and Simon (born in 2001), from his union with Gaëlle Demars.