Kalthoum Sarrai كلثوم السراي in

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(25 September 1962 – 19 January 2010), best known as Cathy Sarrai, was a

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and television personality. She was known to many French and Belgian television viewers for her role in the French version of ''

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'', which began airing on M6 on 1 February 2005. Sarrai was born in

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, on 25 September 1962, as one of seven children. She moved to

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in 1979, where she studied

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before pursuing a successful career as a

. Sarrai also authored three books, including an

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. She began appearing on the French version of ''

'' in 2005. The show, in which she taught parents basic

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and

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techniques, attracted 3.7 million viewers in

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and France, making her a familiar personality on M6. Kalthoum Sarrai died in

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on Tuesday 19 January 2010, of cancer at the age of 47. She was buried in

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References

External links

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The death of the France’s Super Nanny - Cathy Sarraï
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