Guest in Les Rencontres du Papotin, Philippe Etchebest broke the armor by talking about his son Oscar and this real obstacle course to adopt him.
Behind his shell as a chef with a fiery temperament lies a man madly in love with his wife. Philippe Etchebest is in perfect love with his wife Dominique, to whom he has been married for more than twenty years. If the star of Kitchen nightmare rarely mentions his sweetheart in the media, he nevertheless made a small exception in the show As an aside.
On the set of the show broadcast on Canal+, Philippe Etchebest even made a beautiful declaration of love. “She leads me to have these exchanges which are important and which allow us to last. I am very proud of her and very proud of what she brings me. Dominique is there to channel me, to calm me down. It’s well, it’s important. I see it more and more, even today, it brings me a lot of things, it makes me think, which I don’t always do. It creates a real balance“. Together they became the happy parents of Oscar-Louis Etchebesta child they adopted in 2005.
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Philippe Etchebest: his rare confidences about the adoption of his son
Very discreet about his private life, Philippe Etchebest agreed to speak on the adoption of his son Oscar in an unpublished issue of Papotin meetingsbroadcast on Saturday April 6 on France 2. The opportunity for the chef to remember his first meeting with the man who is now in his twenties.
“Dominique and I were unable to have children, it was very complicated. Dominique was keen to adopt“, he first confided. “At first, I had a little trouble with the adoptionbut the day I took him in my arms, I said: ‘Well, he’s actually my son.’ It was a very strong moment.”continued the famous French chef, before lifting the veil on the difficult journey of adoption. “It was a real obstacle course to adopt. It lasted almost five years. It’s a very difficult journey emotionally. One day, they tell you: ‘You’re going to have a child’and then the next day: ‘No, it’s not good…’ You go to a country… A lot happens before the final result”.
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Philippe Etchebest: what happens to his son Oscar, now 20 years old?
Will Oscar follow in his father’s footsteps? At the risk of disappointing more than one, Philippe Etchebest confided during the show that his son was not very interested in the world of cooking.
“We try to raise him as best as we can. Today, he is a fulfilled boy, extremely kind, very sociable. And besides, he wants to work in the social sector, he doesn’t want to cook. But it’s a great reward.”concluded the chef.
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