This Monday, December 11, 2023, Benjamin Castaldi spoke at length about the exuberance and the cost of his marriage to Flavie Flament, in the columns of Purepeople. The opportunity to discover the tidy sum paid for the happy event and the trick of the two hosts to avoid putting their hands in their wallets.
At 53, Benjamin Castaldi has nothing to be ashamed of the path he has traveled. The one that the public discovered as a television host thanks in particular to the success of Loft Story in 2006 on M6 has spent a good part of his professional career on the small screen. This does not prevent Benjamin Castaldi from having different professional aspirations, he who recently embarked on a theatrical adventure when he joined the cast of the play Bungalow 21 since November 2023, after having served for a long time on the bench of Cyril Hanouna’s columnists in the show Do not touch My TV.
On the heart side, the one who launches into comedy has had a family life that is eventful to say the least. Married to Aurore Aleman since August 2017, Benjamin Castaldi welcomed his fourth child in 2020, little Gabriel, now 3 years old. If today he is in perfect love with his partner and their son, the television host has always accepted the sometimes frantic pace of his love life.
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Benjamin Castaldi: “We sold this to a magazine”
Before his current wife, the small screen star was married three times in the past, including a union that far from went unnoticed in the early 2000s. Married from 1993 to 2001 to Valérie Sapienza, the mother of his first sons, Julien and Simon, Benjamin Castaldi enjoyed a romance with a personality well known to viewers in the early 2000s. It is Flavie Flament, with whom he married in September 2002 during a ceremony worthy of a crowned head.
And for good reason, at the time the two stars of the small screen were aware of their media power. “To tell you the truth, for this wedding, there were helicopters, 47 or 48 bodyguards to guard the property. Guests were asked to leave cell phones in the cloakroom. No films, no photos apart from the official photos because we were so nervous that there would be a photo”remembered Benjamin Castaldi in the columns of Purepeople. To afford this prestigious marriage, the lovebirds had the idea of capitalizing on their common notoriety.
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“We sold it to a magazine that no longer exists. I think we took so much money from them that they filed for bankruptcy… called Hola. Then they went ‘olala’ ( laughs). We sold 980,000 francs, which helped pay for this absolutely incredible princess wedding.”, he continued. A tip that allowed the couple to cover almost all of the astronomical costs paid for this occasion.
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