Mélissa Theuriau | |
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.jpg) Mélissa Theuriau | |
| Born | (1978-07-18)18 July 1978 (age 47) Échirolles, France |
| Occupations | Television presenter and journalist |
| Notable credit(s) | LCI Matin (LCI) News (LCI,TF1) Voyages (LCI) Zone interdite (M6) |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 2 |
Mélissa Theuriau (French pronunciation:[melisatœʁjo]; born 18 July 1978) is a French journalist andnews anchor forM6. She studied journalism and became a television news presenter. She is the former anchor and co-editor in chief ofZone interdite on French TV.
Theuriau obtained aDUT in News-Communication from the Technical University (Institut universitaire de technologie, or IUT)Pierre Mendès-France in Grenoble, and later a master's degree in Audiovisual Journalism from the Institute of Communication and Media (ICM) atÉchirolles. Theuriau was a reporter at Match TV in 2002. Since 2003, she has been a reporter and anchor forLa Chaîne Info, where she became better known to the French general public. She made her breakthrough as a newscaster and travel show host forLCI, the news channel and forTF1. Her programs wereLCI Matin (LCI Morning), the 6:40 news on LCI and TF1 from Monday to Thursday and theVoyages travel show on Wednesdays at 13:55 on LCI. In May 2006, she surprised the management of TF1 by refusing the offer to be the anchorwoman of the weekend evening news of TF1, as a summer replacement for sitting anchorwomanClaire Chazal.
In June 2006,Métropole 6, another French television channel, announced her arrival for September as editor-in-chief and presenter ofZone Interdite ("Forbidden Zone"), a weekly magazine show featuring investigative reporting.
She also presentsUn jour, une Photo andDeux, trois jours avec moi on the French TV channelParis Première, in partnership withParis Match.Un jour, une photo features stories behind iconic and historic photos.Deux, trois jours avec moi is a weekly travel programme in which an invited guest reveals more about him or herself during a trip.
In September 2006, she was appointed co-editor in chief and anchor of the influential TV magazineZone interdite ("Forbidden Zone") onM6. She will stay there for 6 years, until August 29, 2012, the date of her last show (she will present this show barefoot)[1]
In March 2007, she launched, with five other journalists (Claire Chazal,Marie Drucker,Laurence Ferrari,Béatrice Schönberg, andTina Kieffer), the organization “La Rose”, which works withUNICEF to help educate girls.
In 2006, theDaily Express voted her the world's most beautiful news reporter.[2] She was similarly voted "TV's sexiest news anchor" by readers of the US edition ofMaxim. In May 2007, she was voted most beautiful woman in the world in the French edition ofFHM. Paris Match has referred to her asla bombe cathodique ("the television bombshell").[3]
In 2006,Voici, a French tabloid, published pictures showing her topless at a beach. Her lawyers are reportedly attempting to purge these images from the Internet.[3]
In 2010, scam websites co-opted a photograph of her to promote health treatments,[4] the ubiquitous "1 weird old tip" belly fat diets,[5] andpenny auctions,[6] unauthorized usage of which Theuriau was initially unaware.
On 29 March 2008, she was engaged to French-Moroccan comedian and actorJamel Debbouze; the two were married on 7 May 2008.[7] They had a son on 3 December 2008 named Léon[8] and a daughter named Lila in 2011.[9]
On August 2012, Theuriau and Debbouze ranked in the top ten of France’s most popular couples in a Harris Interactive poll for Gala magazine.[10]
