Love, football and television. Between footballer Yoann Gourcuff and host Karine Ferri, it’s a story that has lasted for several years. While Grégory Lemarchal’s ex-girlfriend lost her companion with cystic fibrosis in 2007, she would have crossed paths with the famous sportsman “at the top of the slopes in 2011 in the winter sports resort of Tignes”, according to Gala.

Since their meeting, Yoann Gourcuff and Karine Ferri have taken several steps together in their history. On April 6, 2016, the couple founded their family with the birth of their son Maël. “The most beautiful commitment is to give life, to have a child. Afterwards there are things that can be close to my heart … But I prefer to remain discreet on the subject”, she confided to the people magazine.

Discretion is certainly the solid basis of this emblematic couple. After their PACS in 2017, Maël’s parents give him a little sister Claudia, born on July 16, 2018. Five years later, they welcomed their third child, a girl named Sasha on May 3, 2023. Another significant life event of Yoann Gourcuff and his wife Karine Ferri: the marriage celebrated on June 8, 2019 in the south of France.

However, it is in Brittany near Lorient that the famous co-host of The Voice Kids chose to settle with her husband and their children to lead a peaceful life. A region dear to the heart of Yoann Gourcuff, a native of the area. “I’m from here, even if I left very young for a training center. But yes, I’m from the area, it’s a bit like my roots, and I like being here,” he said. declared in a rare interview granted to 50 minutes Inside on TF1 in 2021.

For his wife Karine Ferri, it was love at first sight with the Breton region. “I absolutely did not know Brittany, and I married a Breton, so I then knew Brittany, and it is true that I am very attached to it. It is authentic”, she confessed in the show during which she opened the doors of her secret garden.

A couple always also who reveals the reasons for such discretion on their history. “At a time when we are revealing a lot of things and showing everything, it’s true that we are rather very discreet with Yoann, and very modest. So yes, it’s a big first, we don’t ‘has never opened the doors of our house”, declared the accomplice of Nikos Aliagas to our colleagues on TF1. The rare occasions when the couple reveals their intimacy, it is through a few pictures revealed on the canvas. Marriage, family life and animals…Planet reveals their recipe for happiness in pictures in the slideshow.