Elsa Wolinski: “I continue to support my father for the generations to come”: Femme Actuelle Le MAG

“Hello Sir, do you mind if I’m on the phone?” Considerate, Elsa Wolinski alerts the taxi driver that she will spend her journey in a telephone conversation. On the other end of the line: us. On the occasion of his official arrival on the show Bel & Bien, (broadcast every Saturday morning, at 9:55 am, on France 2 and presented by Ali Rebeihi and Agathe Lecaron) the 46-year-old journalist and entrepreneur has agreed to confide in Current wife. Her voice is in her image: sparkling, fresh and cheerful. However, at the start of 2021, after a year of the coronavirus pandemic, Elsa Wolinski is, like many “At the bottom of the abyss.” From the outset, she concedes: “I am at the end of my life. I feel, like everyone else, a little helpless. ” The good news is that the daughter of Georges and Maryse Wolinski (who had also confided in Current wife) has a warrior mentality, and that she does not give way. “I am melancholy of a life before but excited of a life of tomorrow. I can’t wait to rebuild ”, she slips us. The other good news is that this adventure, Bel & Bien, makes him really… good. “Rarely have I met people as caring, loving and normal as those on this team. I learn a lot, especially with the psychiatrist Christophe André, even if I had already read everything about him. I am full of doubts, discomfort, ailments so I feel like I’m healing myself with each show. This is exactly what I needed. I hope it will last.” All the more so since the program evokes subjects dear to the columnist (who was a journalist for fourteen years for the “Beauty and Luxury” pages of the magazine. Point of view), such as personal development or well-being. It was Nathalie Cottet, the producer, who spotted her. “Me, I was very scared, I have no confidence in myself at all, so I am always very surprised when people come to me”, explains Elsa Wolinski, before congratulating herself: “It started really quickly, I did a show and they asked me to be there all the time. I have carte blanche! I am given themes and I do according to them. So far, everything I offer has passed. ”

Like father, like daughter, like mother, like daughters?

Do those close to her watch her when she is on television? “So far no one has looked at me and I would like that to change!” answers Elsa Wolinski tit for tat. “Already, when I had my shows on Comedy [Demandez le programme !, ndlr.], I would ask my parents if they were looking at me and they would tell me ‘No never.’ And my daughter just told me ‘As long as you don’t show your breasts, you’re fine.’A reference to his support for the Femen, of course. For her part, the rare times she turns on the television, Elsa Wolinski is passionate about programs “Completely stupid” sfor large families. “As soon as a program is very popular, I watch it”, she laughs. Rare are the moments, moreover, when Elsa does not work, between her programs on France Televisions and Yahoo or her united, committed and feminist brand Sisterhood (on which she does not touch money, she would like to clarify). A bulimia of projects that pushes her to question herself: “Not long ago my daughters told me ‘you don’t listen to us anymore’. I said that to my parents, so I start a cycle that is not good …”Elsa Wolinski, who greatly inspired her father, the famous cartoonist Georges Wolinski, who died on January 7, 2015 in the bombing of Charlie hebdo, swear she’s trying to do her best. “My daughters inspire me and push me to pay attention to society, to what resonates.” What about his mother, journalist and writer Maryse Wolinski, suffering from cancer “Somewhat important” and that she will see as soon as she can? “I never proposed to her, but I would love to work with her”, she launches modestly, like a bottle in the sea. Very active on social networks, especially on Instagram, where she shares photos of herself showcasing her lavish brown mane, life fragments, and long engaged and personal posts, Elsa Wolinski hears “Get messages across”... and bring his father back to life. “It’s true that I often talk about him. I tell myself that the coming generations won’t really know who all these people are, so I try to keep it going. ” While waiting to find the “Life before, cuddles, drinks with girlfriends, restaurants”, and to focus on what makes her happy, Elsa Wolinski listens to her children’s laughter. A simple and effective remedy that would undoubtedly be approved by his comrades in Bel & Bien.

COADIC GUIREC / BESTIMAGE – Maryse Wolinski and her daughter Elsa Wolinski – General of the play “I do not want to die idiot” by Georges Wolinski at the Déjazet theater for 30 exceptional performances in Paris, September 4, 2015.

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