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Times
21-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Times
‘French Oprah' coaxes out politicians' softer side — for better or worse
Millions of television viewers will watch Marine Le Pen's protégé Jordan Bardella shed a tear when his father publicly declares that he loves him on a pre-recorded chat show to air next month. Bardella is one of several French politicians who have done heart-to-heart interviews with Karine Le Marchand, who is often described as France's answer to Oprah Winfrey. In the programme, Ambition intime (Intimate Ambition), Gérald Darmanin, the tough-talking justice minister, also reveals his softer side by acknowledging that his mother still buys his underwear and socks. Bardella, president of the hard-right National Rally party, denies being an obsessive germaphobe but admits that he always cleans his shower with a squeegee after he uses it. Journalists were invited to a preview of the show's
Times
21-05-2025
- Politics
- Times
Politicians eager to show softer side to France's answer to Oprah
Millions of television viewers will watch Marine Le Pen's protégé Jordan Bardella shed a tear when his father publicly declares that he loves him on a pre-recorded chat show to air next month. Bardella is one of several French politicians who have done heart-to-heart interviews with Karine Le Marchand, who is often described as France's answer to Oprah Winfrey. In the programme, Ambition intime (Intimate Ambition), Gérald Darmanin, the tough-talking justice minister, also reveals his softer side by acknowledging that his mother still buys his underwear and socks. • Jordan Bardella: immigrants' son to French far-right poster boy Bardella, president of the hard-right National Rally party, denies being an obsessive germaphobe but admits that he always cleans his shower with a squeegee after he uses
