Anaïs Baydemir (born 20 July 1979) is a French journalist and weather presenter who has worked for the French national public television channel
France 2 at the conclusion of news bulletins since 2013. She has also worked for the television stations
i>Télé,
La Chaîne Météo,
France 3,
Eurosport,
NT1,
Infosport+ [
fr] and
Equidia [
fr] throughout her career.
Biography
Baydemir was born in
Compiègne,
Oise, France on 20 July 1979 and is of Turkish descent.[1][2] She was raised in a modest household.[3] Baydemir graduated with a Baccalaureate in college and attended to earn her
Brevet de technicien supérieur in commercial action in Compiègne.[3][4] In 2000,[1] she moved to Paris to study journalism at
École supérieure de journalisme de Paris.[2][5] Baydemir made an appearance in the 2000 Yzabel Dzisky short film Tapis.[3]
Upon her leaving school in 2002, she earned an internship at the pay television channel
i>Télé after she did a series of jobs and was offered the role of an editorial assistant, working with journalists and reporters.[4][5][6] Baydemir presented weather reports for the channel alongside
Bruce Toussaint [
fr] from June to September of that year as well as
Canal+ from that September to November.[7] She was employed by
La Chaîne Météo to conduct weather reports for eight months between the period of September 2003 to April 2004 and again between 2007 and 2011.[1][6][7] In December 2004, Baydemir reported on
Miss World 2004 and presented it for TVSF.[7] She went on to present Keno for the
Française des Jeux on
France 3 from 2005 to 2010, and was a journalist and presenter at
La Chaîne Météo from 2007 to 2012.[1][5] Baydemir also provided commentary on sports for
Infosport+ [
fr] for two months in 2006, for
Eurosport (Lundi foot as a columnist and a presenter), France 3 (from 2009 in her public service television debut on the programme En course covering horse racing),
NT1 (Jeux actu between 2008 and 2012) and
Equidia [
fr] (La Culturelle from 2011 to 2013).[1][7][8]
On 31 October 2012, she joined the staff of
France 2 presenting weather forecasts on the Télématin breakfast programme from Mondays to Fridays and went on to present the weather on the news bulletins 13 heures at 1:00 pm and Journal de 20 heures at 8:00 pm.[4][8][9] Two years later, she began presenting the Thursday edition of C'est Hippique on Equidia Life.[5][6] In 2019, Baydemir was cast in the Arnaud Lemort film Ibiza.[2] She was on maternity leave from 14 November 2019 to 20 July 2020,[10][11] and again from 11 October 2021 until 27 May 2022.[12][13]
Personal life
She has been married to the osteopath and physiotherapist Mathieu Saby since September 2019.[14] They have two children.[15] Baydemir is fluent in English and Turkish.[7]