Julie Andrieu has become an essential figure on the small screen but the culinary host is not the type to agree to do anything and everything for a big check…
Since May 2024, Julie Andrieu has lived in Rome with her husband, neurosurgeon Stéphane Delajoux, and their two children: Hadrien and Gaïa. The TV host, passing through Paris, gave an interview in which she agreed to discuss a subject that is often taboo in show business: money.
Julie Andrieu declined contracts: “I didn’t do anything to deserve this.”
This life in the Boot gave rise to an experience rich in learning and typical recipes, from which she drew a cookbook entitled Julie cooks Italy. But, at 51, Julie Andrieu wears many professional hats alongside her work: she is also host of the culinary show Julie’s Notebooks broadcast on T18 and producer. This notoriety has led Julie Andrieu to sometimes be offered very juicy advertising contracts… But she has always declined!
“I have been offered sums that can sometimes be indecent for advertisements and I admit that I understand that sometimes we say to ourselves ‘I did nothing to deserve that’ and I declined because precisely I did not feel comfortable with all that”she recently admitted in promo on the set of Figaro TV.
Julie Andrieu not interested in money? “I didn’t want that to be what shaped my choice”
Asked about the products she could have praised, Julie Andrieu said there was nothing shameful: “They were advertisements for mass distribution, with products that I could consume, since, in this case, it was toothpaste, to be honest.” We can imagine a check with easily several zeros… “But it’s a question of education, I think. I didn’t want that to be the reason for my choice. So I suggested that it be given to an association of which I was the godmother. And they refused, so I said ‘too bad, we’re not doing it'”she added.
“I understand that we can be embarrassed because we know how people live around us, and there are times when we say to ourselves ‘no, but that doesn’t make any sense’. There is a moment when we have to know what we want and what we don’t want”continued Julie Andrieu. Asked about the amounts, the host did not give an amount but admitted, laughing: “It wasn’t bad and sometimes I say to myself, ‘I should have.’”
