Cendrine Dominguez left the small screen a few years ago, after going through painful ordeals. But would the 63-year-old former host be ready to return to television?
Cendrine Dominguez, who is releasing her book The first times without youfaced terrible trials during his life. After the death of her husband Patrice Dominguez in 2015 from lung cancer, she was again overwhelmed by grief when her brother killed himself in 2019. Faced with so much grief, she decided to give up television…
Cendrine Dominguez, devastated by mourning: “I was exhausted, empty…”
After hosting the show Teva Deco on the Téva channel for years, Cendrine Dominguez left the small screen. “I couldn’t take it anymore. After my brother died, I could no longer smile, act as if nothing had happened. I was exhausted, empty. Even if I was happy in my activity, it no longer made any sense“, explained the host in an interview with France Sunday.
The former co-host of Fort Boyard was particularly close to her brother, whom she considered her alter ego. Bruised by mourning, she preferred to bow out: “I preferred to face reality, not try to escape it, whatever the consequences.“. And added: “Despite the drama, I wanted to be ‘hyper-alive’. Even if we are not all equal in overcoming sorrows, we come out stronger“.
Cendrine Dominguez had already spoken about her decision to leave the small screen, in the show What happened to thema few years earlier: “I don’t know how to cheat, I don’t know how to smile when I didn’t want to… Television, the camera comes to steal a little of your soul all the same and I said to myself: ‘my soul, there is too much sorrow.’ I told myself I was going to stop“.
Cendrine Dominguez: soon a return to television? She answers
The widow of Patrice Dominguez, however, found love and daily support in the person of Jean-Christophe, whom she married in 2022. Although the pain of the bereavements experienced will not disappear, the mother of Léa, 39 years old, and Léo, 36 years old, is trying to move forward and feels better today… to the point of returning to the air? “No way“, she decided with France Sunday.
And to the 63-year-old ex-host to explain: “I loved presenting Téva Déco for twenty-five years, but I’ve done the trick. However, I am still in the profession, I have produced things and currently I am for the first time directing a film on Canal +. Going from a book to a film makes me very happy“.
