The absence of his father Pierre Bellemarethat’s one thing that Pierre Dhotsel, the emblematic host of the teleshopping show, remembers well M6 Shop and son of the great writer, who died in 2018, when we talk to him about his childhood. The fault is obviously his work – both writer, radio and television presenter – but not only that. On the set of Jordan De Luxe’s showthis Thursday, November 2, 2023, Pierre Dhostel indulged in some confidences on her late dad, who led a double life for a long time. “He had recreated a second life with an apartment on avenue de Breteuil, with a car… He had reproduced exactly the same thing in duplicate. So he went to my family for a weekend, and to his family for a weekend” he explained. “De facto” polygamy, as defined by the Senate, rather common at the time, evokes Pierre Dhostel. And a situation that Pierre Bellemare’s son discovered late in life. “Until I was 19, I never knew that my father had this double life”he reports, specifying that his mother had no idea what was going on either.
“I’m going to leave you, I’m leaving”
A lie that lasted 12 years and ended one morning when his father left for work. “I have something to tell you, I’m going to leave you, I’m going”, he said to his wife before leaving, his son reports. A speech worthy of the famous song by Serge Gainsbourg. When the family discovers the pot aux roses, everything shatters. “We are completely devastated, especially my mom who was totally devastated, because she, all of a sudden, discovered this”, the TV host tells Jordan De Luxe. “And me the same way and my sister too. My sister was four years younger than me, but it was still a big blow for her.” And if the first times after these revelations are complicated, “Little by little, we went to his house and got to know Roselyne and her second family, and my sister Maria-Pia.” However, the current does not particularly flow between the two families. Pierre Dhostel then confided that his mother never remarried after this betrayal, because Pierre Bellemare, “he was the love of his life”he concludes.