His face marked millions of viewers in the PAF. At the time, Évelyne Leclercq was one of television’s leading announcers, making her debut at just 17 in 1968 on the ORTF regional channel in Nice. In the mid-1970s, she continued her career on TV by becoming a presenter on TF1, from its creation in January 1975.
On the strength of her popularity, Évelyne Leclercq co-hosted several television programs such as Eurovision with Yves Lecoq and Patrick Sébastien in 1977. Then, in the 1980s, she was one of the leading figures in the cult game Turn rides, which she presented on the first channel (from 1985 to 1993) with Simone Garnier, Fabienne Égal and Charly Oleg. Alongside her role as a radio member in Les Grosses Têtes, she also presented the summer game Intervilles, along with Guy Lux and Denise Fabre.
Évelyne Leclercq is nonetheless a real jack-of-all-trades. Besides television, she gave voice to music by releasing three albums (between 1981 and 2015). She made her theater debut in 1987 in an adaptation of Dom Juan and played roles on stage until recently in 2020 in Les 3 Glorieuses with Danielle Gilbert and Sophie Darel. Fictional actress for cinema (La guerre des miss, Elle s’en va…) and television (Commissaire Moulin, Le Débarquement, L’Hôtel du libre-TRAde…), she hosted a clairvoyance program in 2012.
After the end of her hosting career, Évelyne Leclercq did not disappear from the screens. We discover her as a participant on TNT in An almost perfect dinner in 2012 (W9), The egg or the hen or even TPMP in 2014 (C8). Discreet about his private life, the ex-wife of Jacques Olive confided in his notoriety which has shaken up his family life, especially for his daughter Céline.
“She always wanted to remain discreet. My daughter is someone very discreet”, she confided to Faustine Bollaert during her passage in April 2022 in It starts today. “For example, in high school, she categorically refused that I accompany her. So, I had to stay 50 meters from the door so that I wouldn’t be seen. It was forbidden to enter the yard”. Today, she is a fulfilled woman and an accomplice grandmother with her grandchildren.
The latter spoke above all of her privileged bond with Benjamin, better known by his artist name Young Benj. “She’s more a friend, a friend, than a grandmother for me”, assured the rapper and young radio host. “There are zero taboos in the family”. His grandmother is just as admiring of the talent of her grandson who officiated on Cannes Radio. “I always thought he had something more, something special.” From her beginnings to today, discover what has become of the ex-host through a selection of photos on Instagram.
