Shirley and Dino, real names Corinne and Gilles Benizio, played a legendary comedy duo for years. But what happens to them today? Are they still a couple? Do they have children?
Corinne and Gilles Benizio, aka Shirley and Dino, have been tearing us apart for years with their legendary duo of wacky characters, an essential number on Patrick Sébastien’s old show, The largest cabaret in the world. When they got off stage, the two actors were still as accomplices, since they were a couple in the city. But today, do they still live together? What do we know about their private lives?
Shirley and Dino “in a retirement home”: what happens to them?
After putting on the costumes of Shirley and Dino for years, Corinne and Gilles Benizio hung up the microphone. “The soul of Shirley and Dino is there, but the characters, their costumes, the gingham dress, it’s gone. They were put in a retirement home“, they joked in the newspaper Provence in 2022. Whatever happens, their complicity is intact!
But what have they been doing since then? “We are doing other things and we are also waiting for requests because it is always interesting to start on projects that we have not imagined and others that we have planned.“, they explained. Besides, the tandem started directing at the opera! “We like it, it’s a change. For example, we staged Platée by Rameau, we recreated Sleeping Beauty, a ballet that we put back in our own way with our favorite conductor, Hervé Niquet“, they detailed.
Gilles and Corinne Benizio, a couple for over 40 years: do they have children?
As for their relationship, it still seems as strong. Married since 1985, the actors are parents of two children, Raphaël, 30 years old, and Elisa, 32 years old. If the son is an electronics and industrial IT engineer, the daughter has followed in her parents’ footsteps. An actress, she is at the head of her troupe of actors and put on her show in Avignon with the help of her mother. Admiring, she praised the complicity of her parents in Le Figaro : “My mother starts with an idea and passes the baton to my father at the end (…) They complement each other“.
What is Corinne and Gilles Benizio’s secret to making their relationship last? “It’s not a foregone conclusion (…) You have to work (…) you have to give each other gifts, say nice things to each other. It hasn’t been long since you told me“, she said to TV Starfacing her husband. Love and humor, then!
