At 60, Laurent Ruquier has no children… and is no worse off! Asked about his relationship to fatherhood by YahooMonday October 9, 2023, the host who now works on BFMTV declared: “It’s something that never really crossed my mind. I belong to that generation, where when you were gay, you didn’t imagine being a parent. That’s changed since then, so much the better.” Indeed, his new boss and friend, Marc-Olivier Fogiel, has two daughters born to a surrogate mother in 2011 and 2013. “NOW, I’m so happy when I see gay friends who have GPAs and who have childrenand I see that they are happy with children, that doesn’t pose a problem to me”, he assured. Despite everything, the star of Big heads has a mixed opinion on surrogacy. “I am not for it, for other reasons: the commodification of a woman’s body, all that”he estimated.
Laurent Ruquier: “Maybe if one day…”
Since 2018, the 60-year-old host has shared the life of columnist Hugo Manos, 25 years his junior. “I was interested in fitness and asked him about it via social media”he revealed in the columns of GalaWednesday February 22, 2023. If Laurent Ruquier has a clear opinion on GPA, could he agree to take the plunge out of love for his companion? “Perhaps if one day Hugo were to tell me ‘well we’re going to appeal’, I would resort to it, because we don’t have many other solutions, given that adoption is know, it’s even more complicated”he told Yahoo, before releasing with humor: “At my age, I don’t want to mess with kids, but hey, if I have to!” In March 2021, in the columns of the magazine Stubbornthe ex-acolyte of Léa Salamé had already revealed that he was opposed to GPA. “For a woman to be paid to carry a child, that fundamentally bothers me. It’s my opinion, I have the right anyway, don’t I?”he blurted out.