Marie Drucker (born 3 December 1974) is a French

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and

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personality.

Early life

The daughter of Jean Drucker, a French television executive, and a niece of Michel Drucker, a television journalist, she was educated at the Sorbonne, where she received a degree in modern literature. Her family is

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(from Romania, Austria, Poland, and Algeria).

Career

Her journalistic career started in 1994, as a

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reporter for such magazines as ''

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'' and ''

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'', before she settled down with the ''Capa'' agency in 1997, working with them on the TV programme ''Qu'en pensez-vous?'' ('What Do You Think of It?') on the

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channel. She was the co-presenter of the

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show ''Rince ta baignoire'' in 1999. Next, in August 1999, she joined the newly formed team of I-Télé, a 24-hour news channel which first went on the air in November 1999, with whom she stayed until September 2003. The following two years she worked for

, the main station of the

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. The Canal+ Group is the parent company of I-Télé. She then moved across to become the main news-reader on the

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evening news show ''

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''. At the end of August 2008 Drucker left ''Soir 3'' to take up a new position as substitute

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of the weekend news bulletins of the

channel.

Personal life

Marie Drucker is a cousin of actress

Léa Drucker Léa Drucker (born 23 January 1972) is a French actress. Early life Born in Caen, Normandy, she is the niece of television presenter Michel Drucker, and of ex-president of M6 Jean Drucker. Her father Jacques is a medical doctor, and her mot ...

. She was ranked the 22nd sexiest woman in the world in a 2006 poll by '' FHM France''. Despite a desire to protect her privacy, Drucker has been in a number of well publicized relationships with high-profile individuals, several of whom she was engaged to, starting with novelist Marc Levy until 2005. Then starting in late spring 2006 she was the partner of former French Minister of the Interior François Baroin, which led her to resign from ''

'' out of concerns regarding her objectivity, but the couple were reported to have separated in April 2008. In 2009 she had an affair with banker Matthieu Pigasse, which became the subject of a scathing book by Pigasse's scorned wife, Alix Étournaud, in which Drucker is never named but instead referred to by nicknames such as "la sorcière" (the

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), "Miss Météo" ( weather girl) or "gorge profonde" ( deep throat). She shortly thereafter entered a relationship with comic actor

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which lasted about a year. In 2012, she was reported to be dating

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Cyril Lignac. Drucker now lives in the

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with her partner, politician

Mathias Vicherat Mathias Vicherat (born 26 May 1978) is a French civil servant and director of Sciences Po since 22 November 2021. Early life He was born in 1978 in Seine-Saint-Denis. His father worked for Fnac. Professional career In September 2010, Viche ...

, with whom she has been in a relationship since 2014. On the night of 31 March to 1 April 2015 Drucker gave birth to their son, named Jean after her father.Marie Drucker maman d'un petit garçon au prénom très familial

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Drucker, Marie 1974 births Living people Writers from Paris French journalists French women journalists French television presenters French women television presenters French people of Romanian-Jewish descent French people of Austrian-Jewish descent French people of Polish-Jewish descent French people of Algerian-Jewish descent University of Paris alumni