While she is one of the favorite personalities of the French, does the host Faustine Bollaert live well with this notoriety which can quickly become invasive? The presenter of “La Boite à secrets” confides
Elected the French’s favorite television personality in 2023 and 2024, Faustine Bollaert is experiencing a great period in her career as a host. The one who animates The Secret Box And It starts today does not shy away from her pleasure but nevertheless recognizes that she can find herself in situations that are difficult to manage…
Faustine Bollaert juggles with notoriety: “I’m always afraid of disappointing”
In more than twenty years of career – she started on television in 2002, on France 3 – Faustine Bollaert assures that she is still not “comfortable with the notion of classification”but she still receives honors as a “mark of public affection”, she said in an interview with Paris Match. The 45-year-old host adds: “I feel that I am useful. It’s a chance to have a meaningful job. Even if I sometimes have the impression of being invested with a mission that is beyond me. People expect a solution from me that I can’t necessarily give them. I don’t always have as much time to give them as I would like.”
Faustine Bollaert, who celebrated the milestone of the 1000th broadcast of It starts today, must sometimes juggle the effects of such notoriety. Especially when we owe our success to the fact of collecting thousands of testimonies on often very intimate subjects… “When I’m at the bakery, with Maxime (Chattam, her novelist husband, editor’s note) and the children who wait for me in the car, and who are called to tell me a story about illness or something else, I don’t have the same availability as on my set. I’m always afraid of disappointing.”
“I have the instinct of a lioness.”
Because if Faustine Bollaert gives body and soul to her guests in her afternoon show on France 2, this should not encroach on her private life, she who is the mother of two children: Abbie, 11 years old, and Pete, 9 years old. Mother hen and happy wife, the host is viscerally attached to her clan: “In fact, I have lioness instincts. You must not touch a hair of my tribe.”
And to make the most of her children, Faustine Bollaert revealed to Match having made the choice to move to live in a house closer to Paris. At the same time, she has the luxury of also owning a house in Brittany, in the small village of Saint-Cast-le-Guildo. “I love it when they make noise. That’s all I dreamed of, having a house where the children would feel good, where there would be lots of friends, where you would enter without knocking”she added.
