A generosity that goes beyond the borders of the audiovisual world. Every year, since 2010, Karine Le Marchand supports lovesick farmers through the successful M6 program Love is in the meadow. Light in front of the cameras, the 55-year-old presenter also knows how to be serious when we touch on these men and women working daily to feed the French. Naturally, she had gone to the A4 on January 29 to support and exchange with the angry peasants. A mobilization yet described by some as a communication stunt. But on the side of the former candidates of Love is in the meadowthere is no doubt that the former footballer partner Lilian Thuram really carries this fight in her heart, as reported The Parisian this Sunday, February 4.
“Never no one has ever done this much for us. She works off camera, we call each other regularly. We are not pawns. She is very attentive”, assured our colleagues Julien, a farmer who marked season 14 of the show formerly orchestrated by Alessandra Sublet. Moreover, when she is not on blocked roads for defend the agricultural worldKarine le Marchand faces a famous meeting, as described by Pierre de Saint-Pastou, an Armagnac producer in Gers who made an appearance in 2012 in Love is in the meadow : “Since 2013, she has highlighted us at Agricultural centre. She stays with us for hours and has even refused checks to represent regions in order to stay with us.” Le Parisien also revealed that the sparkling presenter welcome from time to time some of his former protégés from the show during this event, when they are struggling to afford a hotel in the capital. A nice gesture.
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Karine Le Marchand understands the anger of farmers
Over the course of her years spent working with stakeholders in the agricultural world, Karine Le Marchand discovered its inner workings. Invited on the airwaves of RTL on January 22, she assured that she understood the plight of farmers who decided to demand social and fiscal measures to guarantee the future of the profession. “This anger and this peasant distress is not recent”, she emphasized, while recalling that “every three days, a farmer commits suicide”. What about the criticism of his commitment? “I do not care. I came to see the farmers. You shouldn’t have come to two or three angry? I need to do some communication, you think, at my age? I don’t care about these people at all”, she explained without mincing her words.
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