An emblematic candidate for season 7 of Love is in the meadow, Thierry Olive remains, years later, one of the darlings of M6 viewers. So much so that they regularly worry about the farmer, affected by health concerns.
A disease that is not without consequences on his intimate life. In 2012, M6 viewers discovered the seventh season of Love is in the meadow, presented by Karine Le Marchand. Among the emblematic candidates, Thierry Olive, a farmer who knew how to touch the public thanks to his personal story, but also his touching relationship with Annie. If he came up against some family tensions, the couple said “yes” to each other in September 2012 and still seems to be spinning the perfect love today. And this, despite the diabetes from which Thierry Olive suffers, and which is more and more disabling for him. Guest on the show TPMP People last May, the farmer, who was the victim of a road accident in February 2022, was questioned by Matthieu Delormeau about his relationship with Annie.
If he had then assured that everything was fine “very good”he had not hidden that his private life was very affected by his health problems. “I put the little tool away in the drawer, a bit”he had then entrusted, specifying to be “soon to retire, and [sa] woman too”. “I already have a hip prosthesis, I have diabetes“, he had indicated, he who regrets not having had children with his wife. Father of a daughter named Charlène, and born of his marriage to his first wife, Nathalie, Thierry Olive had, in 2018, wanted to raise public awareness of diabetes, in a video where he was disguised as Tom Hanks, Liz Taylor and Sharon Stone, personalities themselves suffering from this disease.
“I did not feel well”
It is several years after his passage in Love is in the meadow that he had discovered to be diabetic, as he had confided to Tele-Leisure. “When I did Fort Boyard for the second time, I did not feel well. I was advised to go see my doctor.”, he explained then. Once the verdict fell, Thierry Olive had to “to slow down” its activities, forcing it to refuse several projects such as participating in Dance with the starsor even be a columnist for Cyril Hanouna in Do not touch My TV. Fortunately, the farmer can count on the support of Annie, his sweetheart.