“Marriage? We’re talking about it,” the two hosts finally make it official

They had not hidden their love for several months by multiplying public appearances together, without really expressing themselves openly about it. The two star presenters William Leymergie And Sophie Davant have been living an affair for at least two years. She was willing to talk about it openly as she had rarely done before in the spring, for the television show TV: your ruthless universe broadcast on C8Pierre Sled’s ex-partner had explained that she would have liked their relationship to remain secret for as long as possible and that she had suffered from the revelations made about them.

In the columns of Paris Matchthey explain this week the reasons why they had preferred to remain silent at first. “It was never the right time. We were more concerned about respect the grief and mourning of William’s three childrenwho lost their mother in June 2020. I myself lost mine at the age of 20, I know the violence and the shock”admits Sophie Davant in the new issue of the magazine, available on newsstands on Thursday, July 25, and whose cover features a photo taken on a sunny beach.

A relationship free from any constraints

For his part, William Leymergie remembers their beginnings in Telematinthis iconic show broadcast on France 2 and through which they had met. The host was in some ways the star, when Nicolas and Valentine’s mother joined the team to present the weather at the very end of the 1980s. “She had incredible perseverance. She was what she still is today: a bulldozer in a dragonfly body“he said about her, not running out of praise for her.

Aged 77 and 61 respectively, the two presenters do not see their relationship as the ones they may have experienced in the past. “I wouldn’t call our love passionate, because we’ve both experienced it in our respective lives. Our love is full of wisdom. We chose to take the best of everyday life, to impose nothing on each other, and we are relieved of all pressure: no family to start, nothing more to prove to each other… Our couple is the communion of two independences“explains Sophie Davant in complete transparency, which does not prevent their children from mixing and getting together as they wish: “We meet regularly. I must say that we have known each other for a long time, because with my ex-husband, Pierre, we had bought a house in Normandy next to that of William and his wife. His daughter was even the babysitter of my children. They have always appreciated her and have always seen us very close!”adds the former presenter ofDeal doneheard on the air ofEurope 1.

The possibility of a marriage to reunite their loved ones

Lucid, William Leymergie took a step back before agreeing to speak as he does for the Editorial staff of Paris Match Today. “We didn’t know if our relationship would last. We needed time. It turns out that Our story is actually very natural“he adds, confirming in some way the words of his partner, who goes further by evoking the hypothesis ofa future marriage. “We talk about it a lot. Would that make us happier?“she asks herself very openly. “What motivates us is to gather our friends together to have a party. In fact, some of them have already offered to be our witnesses.”concludes the presenter of William at noon (C8).

Any idea of ​​the personalities who could surround the couple on the occasion of a possible union in front of the mayor…?

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