“My wife is the most…”: Patrice Duhamel confides in Nathalie Saint-Cricq

The Duhamel family is essential on television. Alain Duhamel and his nephew Benjamin officiate on BFM TV. The father of the latter and brother of the first, Patrice Duhamel, is also a political journalist. “You get to talk about something other than politics at Christmas dinners with all these members of the family that revolves around the political planet ?”asked Damien Canivez to the husband of France Télévisions political columnist Nathalie Saint-Cricq during his visit to the Buzz TV of Figaro this Thursday, May 16. “We talk a little about politics, we talk about family, we talk about sport, cinema, music, theater. We talk about life in general”replied Patrice Duhamel.

“When we talk about politics all together, there are two solutions: either it’s talk or we argue!”added the former boss of France Télévisions. “Are you of different sensibilities? (…) Who is the most progressive and who is the most reactive in the family? Tell us everything!”asked the presenter of the Buzz TV. “There is no reaction!”said Patrice Duhamel. “But the most progressive, I think it’s my wife”, added the one who married Nathalie Saint-Cricq several years after the birth of their son Benjamin. The dad steps up when asked if his boy is a “pistoned”. “It’s totally inaccurate, he graduated from Sciences Po, he followed a path that is completely logical, normal. So, it’s true that he has just turned 30, so the functions that he exercises are very important at that age”, he replies. Before calling back: “At 30 years old, I was head of the political department of TF1, that’s it.”

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Faced with attacks targeting Benjamin Duhamel, his father defends him, but nevertheless recognizes that he grew up in a favorable environment. “He lived in a context where we learn things. So, political and historical culture, he was immersed in it. But that’s not why [qu’il a réussi]”specified Patrice Duhamel in the Buzz TV. “When I was appointed general director of France Télévisions, my wife was deputy head of the political department”then recalled the columnist’s husband. “She had been there since 1992 and I was appointed in 2005. And there were also people who said that it was me who appointed her even though she was there thirteen years earlier… So , we must put the church back in the middle of the village“he concluded, determined to defend his family in the face of these unfounded accusations of pistoning to which he is unfortunately accustomed.

Article written in collaboration with 6Medias

Photo credits: Capture Buzz TV – Le Figaro