Cendrine Dominguez may have been one of the flagship figures on the small screen in the 1990s, it has not always been remunerated at its fair value. Besides, she never had any trouble approaching this thorny question in front of the camera.
At 62 today, Cendrine Dominguez is a peaceful television woman. Animator but also a producer, she also wrote several books on various subjects, such as cooking, lifestyle or decoration. Guest on the set of Chez Jordan on C8 in October 2024, the one who co-animated Fort Boyard Alongside the late Patrice Laffont for several years had expressed a question that has long lived it: the difference in salary between women and men …
Cendrine Dominguez “Furax” Because of the wage differences with Patrice Laffont
“”Was you at the same price as Mr. Patrice Laffont? “asked him Jordan de Luxe. A question to which Cendrine Dominguez had immediately answered in the negative. “One day, I was really furax”she had even let go in stride.
“”I think he had to be € 10,000 per program “had added Jordan de Luxe. “Me it had to be 7000 € or 8000 €”she then entrusted. A salary already “extraordinary” But of which she did not understand the gap with that of her male counterpart. “”At one point, we renegotiate my contract at France Télé and I say: ‘No but it is not going at all!’ It’s not normal what (…) I didn’t see the difference “she then explained. Finally, Cendrine Dominguez had managed to make an agreement with the television channel to be “Very very well paid”.
What relationship is Cendrine Dominguez with Patrice Laffont? “We took the beak”
But what relationship united him to Patrice Laffont, who died in August 2024 at the age of 84? “He was terrible! We took the beak at the beginning. We knew each other before, he knew Patrice Dominguez, we knew each other, but we had never worked together”had entrusted the one who was the wife of the former tennis player Patrice Dominguez, who died in 2015 of lung cancer.
“When I arrived, he immediately said to me: ‘You stay there in your corner, you co-host, we agree’. I said to him: ‘No at all, I am not a potiche already, so not at all!’ We took the beak a little. He pushed me all the time so that I was not too close to him”said the presenter, now remarried to the businessman Jean-Christophe Kerdelhué.
And Cendrine Dominguez to conclude: “I said to him: ‘You know what, you will respect me, I’m going to respect you and we’re going to share this role. I’m not coming to take your place, you are not going to take mine, and we will co-host this program (…) We made a real duo then and we had to explain himself from the start!”.
