On the professional side, Nathalie Saint-Cricq is one of the strong faces of France Télévisions. She notably commented on the face-to-face debate of the second round in 2017, between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen. On the personal side, She got married in 2017 with Patrice Duhamelformer director general of France Télévisions, after 30 years of living together and two children, Raphaël, who is today a screenwriter, and Benjamin, a journalist on BFM TV, just like his parents. In a portrait produced by the newspaper Releaseon Thursday April 4, 2024, the editorialist returned to her relationship with the “Duhamel Galaxy”, with a touch of humor. “In short, I fell in love with my boss“she said explaining: “I met Patrice when he was head of news at La Cinq. […] But he was never the one who hired me“. A statement which echoes the comments she made to the magazine Gala about his late marriage: “I have a kind of imbecile relationship with freedom“.
Family life and salary: Nathalie Saint-Cricq is honest
Nathalie Saint-Criq is also attached to her freedom of expression and speaks without language. Criticized over her salary, she shared her amount again, directly with journalists from Releasewhich amounts to 5,789 euros net13th month included before explaining: “People confuse the salaries of journalists and those of presenters”. “I also receive royalties”, specified the editorialist and author of two novels, one of which was the subject of a television adaptation with Pierre Arditi recently. In her family life, the mother of two sons, whom she had with Patrice Duhamel, explained that she had notably refused the position of presenter of Telematinthe morning show on France 2, in order to be able to accompany them to school, before finally making his return to the screen at the age of 45. “I was able to do what many women cannot do: stop when I needed time for my private life and come back without being harmed”, she confided. Today, the whole family has grown up but they enjoy being together in the summer in Corsica, her two children, and her husband’s three sons, in a rental house, she was keen to point out. “It’s going very well, but like in every family, sometimes it’s tense. So I go swimming and tell them: ‘Get over it’“finally concluded Nathalie Saint-Cricq, always with a lot of freedom and frankness.