Evelyne Thomas celebrated her 58th birthday on January 10. The opportunity to learn more about Christophe Aigrisse, his ex-companion, with whom the separation was complicated to say the least.
Évelyne Thomas and Christophe Aigrisse are met on the small screen, in the show It’s my choice. He was 27, she was 38. The former couple stayed together for many years and had a girl named Lola, now 21 years old. Christophe Aigrisse started his career at 19 at Reservoir Prod, the production house of Jean-Luc Delarue. The young man gradually rose through the ranks before finding himself a producer in turn: “Everyone knows that when I started out, I distributed the mail at Reservoir Prod. […] Then I took care of bringing the audience to the sets. […] Before becoming a production assistant and finally producer”, He said in an interview with Gala in 2015.
In 2006, Christophe Aigrisse and the former presenter of There is a solution to everything! (Direct8) put a end of their marriage. The separation was stormy since Evelyne Thomas filed a complaint against her ex-companion for telephone harassment, but the penalty of 3,000 euros fine and one month suspended prison sentence will ultimately be overturned on appeal. At the time, the highly publicized affair put Sticks in the wheels to the career of Christophe Aigrisse, as he explained to us: “When I was looking for a job in France after my separation from Evelyne and that my employers looked at who I was on Internalt, that wasn’t really positive for me.”And to continue:“Nobody hired me in the television industry.”
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A life far from the plateau
Since then, Christophe Aigrisse has rebuilt his life with a certain Sophie with whom he had two more children. The former media man has also converted and now lives in Morocco where he is at the head of a hotel four stars, located in Marrakech and named the Murano. Evelyne Thomas, for her part, took over her presenter cap after some time away and now appears on Sweetheart 25 and NRJ12.
Article written in collaboration with 6Medias
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