Marie Drucker | |
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Born |
Paris, France | 3 December 1974
Nationality | French |
Alma mater | Sorbonne |
Occupation(s) | Journalist on TV and radio |
Partner | Gad Elmaleh (2009–2010) |
Parent | Jean Drucker |
Relatives |
Michel Drucker (paternal uncle) Léa Drucker (paternal cousin) |
Marie Drucker (born 3 December 1974) is a French journalist, author, television and radio personality.
The daughter of Jean Drucker, a French television executive, and a niece of Michel Drucker, a television journalist, she was educated at the Sorbonne, where she received a degree in modern literature. Her family is Jewish (from Romania, Austria, Poland, and Algeria). [1]
Her journalistic career started in 1994, as a freelance reporter for such magazines as Le Figaro and ELLE, before she settled down with the Capa agency in 1997, working with them on the TV programme Qu'en pensez-vous? ('What Do You Think of It?') on the Canal+ channel. She was the co-presenter of the France 2 show Rince ta baignoire in 1999. Next, in August 1999, she joined the newly formed team of I-Télé, a 24-hour news channel which first went on the air in November 1999, with whom she stayed until September 2003. The following two years she worked for Canal+, the main station of the Canal+ Group. The Canal+ Group is the parent company of I-Télé. She then moved across to become the main news-reader on the France 3 evening news show Soir 3. At the end of August 2008 Drucker left Soir 3 to take up a new position as substitute anchor of the weekend news bulletins of the France 2 channel.
Marie Drucker is a cousin of actress Léa Drucker. She was ranked the 22nd sexiest woman in the world in a 2006 poll by FHM France.
Despite a desire to protect her privacy, Drucker has been in a number of well publicized relationships with high-profile individuals, several of whom she was engaged to, starting with novelist Marc Levy until 2005. [2] Then starting in late spring 2006 she was the partner of former French Minister of the Interior François Baroin, [3] which led her to resign from Soir 3 out of concerns regarding her objectivity, but the couple were reported to have separated in April 2008. [4]
In 2009 she had an affair with banker Matthieu Pigasse, which became the subject of a scathing book by Pigasse's scorned wife, Alix Étournaud, in which Drucker is never named but instead referred to by nicknames such as "la sorcière" (the witch), "Miss Météo" ( weather girl) or "gorge profonde" ( deep throat). [5] [6] She shortly thereafter entered a relationship with comic actor Gad Elmaleh [7] [8] which lasted about a year. In 2012, she was reported to be dating celebrity chef Cyril Lignac. [9]
Drucker now lives in the 8th arrondissement of Paris with her partner, Mathias Vicherat, with whom she has been in a relationship since 2014. On the night of 31 March to 1 April 2015 Drucker gave birth to their son, named Jean after her father. [10] [11]