Anaïs Baydemir (born 20 July 1979) is a French journalist and weather presenter who has worked for the French national public television channel

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at the conclusion of news bulletins since 2013. She has also worked for the television stations i>Télé,

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, NT1, and throughout her career.

Biography

Baydemir was born in

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, France on 20 July 1979 and is of Turkish descent. She was raised in a modest household. Baydemir graduated with a Baccalaureate in college and attended to earn her

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in commercial action in Compiègne. In 2000, she moved to Paris to study journalism at

École supérieure de journalisme de Paris The ''École supérieure de journalisme'' (ESJ Paris; in English: ''Paris School of Journalism'') is an institution of higher education in Paris dedicated to journalism and related studies. Its origin was in the ''Collège Libre des Sciences S ...

. Baydemir made an appearance in the 2000 Yzabel Dzisky short film ''Tapis''. Upon her leaving school in 2002, she earned an internship at the pay television channel i>Télé after she did a series of jobs and was offered the role of an editorial assistant, working with journalists and reporters. Baydemir presented weather reports for the channel alongside from June to September of that year as well as

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from that September to November. She was employed by

to conduct weather reports for eight months between the period of September 2003 to April 2004 and again between 2007 and 2011. In December 2004, Baydemir reported on

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and presented it for TVSF. She went on to present ''Keno'' for the Française des Jeux on

from 2005 to 2010, and was a journalist and presenter at

from 2007 to 2012. Baydemir also provided commentary on sports for for two months in 2006, for

(''Lundi foot'' as a columnist and a presenter), France 3 (from 2009 in her public service television debut on the programme ''En course'' covering horse racing), NT1 (''Jeux actu'' between 2008 and 2012) and (''La Culturelle'' from 2011 to 2013). On 31 October 2012, she joined the staff of

presenting weather forecasts on the ''

Télématin ''Télématin'' is a French breakfast television news show, broadcast on France 2 since January 7, 1985. It is broadcast in Metropolitan France weekdays from 6:30 to 9:00 am CET. TV5 broadcast the show in Canada in its 150-minute entirety u ...

'' breakfast programme from Mondays to Fridays and went on to present the weather on the news bulletins ''

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'' at 1:00 pm and '' Journal de 20 heures'' at 8:00 pm. Two years later, she began presenting the Thursday edition of ''C'est Hippique'' on Equidia Life. In 2019, Baydemir was cast in the Arnaud Lemort film ''Ibiza''. She was on maternity leave from 14 November 2019 to 20 July 2020, and again from 11 October 2021 until 27 May 2022.

Personal life

She has been married to the osteopath and physiotherapist Mathieu Saby since September 2019. They have two children. Baydemir is fluent in English and Turkish.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Baydemir, Anaïs 1979 births Living people People from Compiègne French people of Turkish descent 20th-century French women 21st-century French women French women television presenters French television weather presenters École supérieure de journalisme de Paris alumni