“Birds flock together,” says a famous saying. Since their meeting in 2012, Julie Gayet and François Hollande continue to have the perfect love story. A loving and complicit relationship that the couple, who have just celebrated their two years of marriage, prefer to live away from the spotlight. However, this does not prevent the actress from providing some information about her daily life and her habits with the former President of the Republic. In the columns of the new issue of Point of view, published on newsstands this Wednesday, June 19, Benjamin Biolay’s friend made a new confession about her relationship with François Hollande, with whom she probably “lots of tastes in common” : “He is a big movie buff and loves music. It’s very nice to share this“, she assures before sharing a funny anecdote: “We don’t have many disagreements and we’ve decided to resist the temptation of series that take up a lot of time!“
An actress herself, Julie Gayet is naturally a great movie buff. François Hollande is also very fond of film evenings. But as his wife suggests in the columns of Point in 2022, Emmanuel Macron’s predecessor is not a big fan of horror films. “When I showed him Severe, at the moment of the scene where the heroine bites a finger, he uttered an ‘oh no!’ of disgust and there, I felt that terror was not really my companion’s cup of tea!“, assures the actress, who specifies that François Hollande knew his classics despite everything. “Like Alien or Shining, because he is a big movie buff“, she adds. In horror cinema, the politician prefers action films. “Flip-flop by John Woo is one of his favorite films“, notes Julie Gayet, before adding: “And he was very marked by Don’t Look Upby its impact and by the questions it raises.“But it’s not just cinema that punctuates their daily lives…
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Julie Gayet and François Hollande, two football fans
Alongside culture, another hobby, a bit more surprising, also brings the two lovers together. Julie Gayet and François Hollande are passionate about football. Already as a child, the former President of the Republic dreamed of being a center forward for the French football team, as he confided to Jacques Vendroux on France Inter in 2017. A sport that Julie Gayet practiced in her younger years. “I always liked it. I started in middle school and I never noticed that there were no girls. I’m a bit like some players: I played football with my friends and one day, I realized that if I wanted to go pro, I had to go play with girls“, she tells Le Parisien in 2021. And the latter emphasizes: “I I know that if there had been a women’s club, I would have joined. I would have liked that. But it didn’t exist.“
Failing to pursue a professional career, Julie Gayet and François Hollande assiduously follow football matches, whether from their sofa or in the stands. “We watch matches together all the time”reveals the actress to the magazine So Foot in 2020. His only regret? “It was not having accompanied him on certain matches because I did not want to be on the ‘official’ side during his mandate.“ A passion that they now share in broad daylight… and which sometimes leads to passionate debates. “But that’s football, right?“, laughs Julie Gayet. “I must admit that I am more demonstrative than him. I can ‘explode’, I get up, I vibrate…“, she admits. In addition to football, the couple “vibrates” also in front of rugby matches, another of their common passions.
François Hollande, an ace in the kitchen
When he is not watching a film or a match with his wife, François Hollande, who is known to be a foodie, likes to spend time in the kitchen. To delight the taste buds of his loved ones – and in particular his wife, the politician does not hesitate to pull out all the stops. It is he himself who decides to cook, for his marriage to Julie Gayet, celebrated in June 2022. “He has a very special talent, which we saw again in Corrèze at the wedding, is that he is a very good cook“, recognizes his friend Jean-Pierre Jouyet, present during this union, to Gala.fr. “We ate very good beef ribs with very good fried potatoes. It’s the best of what I’ve seen in France around me! It is quite remarkable.”
An opinion shared by Julie Gayet. “I found someone who cooks very, very well“, she assures, in the show The bon vivant tablebroadcast on Europe 1 in 2022. “Not only, he cooks wellbut, like all good cooks, he’s the one who does the shopping, he’s the one who goes to the market, it starts with that“, details the actress not without pride, who specifies that her husband masters all kinds of dishes. “He cooks everything, he has this ability to open the fridge, take what is there and be able to make a small starter, a main course…”she observes, specifying that François Hollande has a small preference for “the Saint-Jacques” And “very good cheeses.“Two epicureans, in short.
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