Apart from his professional activities and his family life, Samuel Etienne unfortunately does not have time to have a social life, as he revealed at the microphone of RTL on Saturday October 22, 2022.
Present on the antennas of France Télévisions since 2008journalist Samuel Etienne has long presented the national edition of 19/20 on France 3. However, he was forced to withdraw from the television news in 2016, when he was chosen to succeed Julien Lepers at the helm of the public channel’s iconic daily game: Questions for a Champions. However, Samuel Etienne did not give up his activity as a journalist, given that he presents the morning show of the franceinfo channel every morning. In parallel with his broadcasts on France Télévisions, the host launched his own channel on the Twitch platform since 2020.
Very busy with his various professional activities, Samuel Etienne reserves all of his free time for his family. For the record, the journalist has been married since 2015 to a certain Helen, who works in the field of watchmaking. Together, the couple gave birth to a first child named Malo in 2016, as well as a second boy named Solal in 2020. Between his professional life and his family life, Samuel Etienne therefore no longer has much time to devote to his friends. The presenter confided in this subject during his visit to the program On refait la télé, broadcast on Saturday October 22, 2022 on RTL. “You spend your life on the air, actually“, pointed out his colleague Eric Dussart.
Samuel Etienne: “The priority after work is family”
Subsequently, Samuel Etienne admitted to being “addict to [s]we work”, before revealing that “make choices” having a big impact on his personal life. “My social life is not reduced, but non-existent“, thus affirmed the host, who also added to have”zero” relationship with possible friends. Due to his overloaded schedule, the journalist sees very few people apart from his work colleagues and his family. “We write to each other, we text each other. But, to be very concrete, my best friend, Fanny, I see her once every two years, approximately, for lunch.“, he explained. Therefore, the journalist has never gone out with friends since the birth of his two young children, to whom he devotes most of his free time. “The priority after work is family. I have two little boys aged 6 and 2 and a half. So all my time that’s off the air, it’s for them“, underlined Samuel Etienne.
While regular sports practice was one of the pillars of Samuel Etienne’s life in the past, the journalist admitted that he is forced to put this activity aside for lack of time, just like some of his passions. In addition, the host sleeps extremely little between his life as a father, the morning of franceinfo, his Twitch channel, and the recordings of Questions for a champions. He ensures that he only grants himself “three to four hours (from sleep, editor’s note) per day“.”So I cut out social life, it’s a choice. But later, when at 85, we will have the right to retire soon, well… I will find my friends“, finally concluded Samuel Etienne. “They may no longer be there, Samuel, or angry…“, However, Eric Dussart reminded him.