Since January 2022, Apolline de Malherbe has taken over the reins of the 8:30 a.m. political interview broadcast on BFMTV And RMC every morning of the week, after the decision of the Altice group to oust Jean-Jacques Bourdin, accused of attempted sexual assault by Fanny Agostini. The journalist also hosts the morning show RMC since 2020. Wednesday October 25, 2023, Release granted him a portrait in which she made some confidences about her professional life. She has once again reaffirmed her desire for true equality of the sexes, even if she believes that women are more present on television, even now too much for her taste. “There are only women left. I am for balance and harmony between men and women”, she said. Despite everything, it seems that equal pay is not respected in his case. In the daily columns, she explained that she touched Jean-Jacques Bourdin less, for the same missions. “She is sorry to earn less than Bourdin, her predecessor. Her audiences being in good shape, her communication offensive, of which this portrait is one of the collateral damage, is undoubtedly also due to the salary demand”we can read.
Apolline de Malherbe did not specify the amount of her salary
If she expressed her anger at not receiving as much as the person who officiates today on South Radio, the 46-year-old journalist still did not want to specify the amount of her salary. In the same interview, Apolline de Malherbe spoke about her busy daily life between her work and her family life. Mother of four children, aged 17 for the oldest and 4 for the youngest, she has no time to be bored. She recalled that she had always wanted to be a mother. For her, “Having children was obvious”. “It shakes you up, it forces you to come out of yourself”, she added, proud of her large family. Moreover, Apolline de Malherbe admitted to regularly joking to her broadcast directors about being pregnant again, even if it seems that a new motherhood is not currently on her schedule.