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Agathe Lecaron (born 8 March 1974) is a French
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and
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. She lived and worked for 15 years in Belgium for the radio stations NRJ Belgique,
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and RTL2 or for television channels like AB3, RTL-TVI,
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, M6 or France 5.


Life and career

Agathe Lecaron was born in
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. She graduated with a master's degree in foreign languages at
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. She then left for Belgium where lived her best friend and joined the
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. She was engaged in 1998 at NRJ Belgique, and was then contacted at the creation of the Belgian
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channel LTA. She was then engaged at AB3 to present the television program ''Permis de séduire''. She shifted to a concurrent channel, RTL-TVI, the most watched private Belgian channel. She presented a number of programs including ''1000 secondes'', dedicated to cooking, and ''All Access'', one of the entertainment programs of the channel. At the
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, she presented the program ''Lifestyle'' on
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. She also presented the radio program ''Duel'' on
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and the television program ''Le Mot gagnant'' on RTL-TVI. She was a presenter on the radio station RTL2 where she hosted the program ''Le Grand Morning'' from Monday to Friday with Christophe Nicolas. She announced her departure on 10 July 2013 and was replaced by
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. She joined the channel TMC to present a new version of the program ''Incroyable mais vrai'' alternating with
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broadcast on
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from 2002 to 2007. Soon after, Agathe Lecaron was chosen to co-host with
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the return on TF1 of the program ''Sacrée Soirée''. During summer 2010, she should have arrived on M6 to present the reality summer event ''Trompe-moi si tu peux'', first broadcast since middle of July on the second part of Thursday evening. But this program was suspended two days before the broadcast for the respect of a contestant of the program who committed suicide right after. In December 2010, she presented ''Le Grand Bêtisier'' with
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on M6. The program was allowed to have a
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on 19 December and then every day during two weeks replacing ''100 % Mag''. Agathe Lecaron replaced Sandrine Corman on this program. In 2011, she also replaced Sandrine Corman with Stéphane Rotenberg for the second season of the French version of ''
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'' on M6, also broadcast on RTL-TVI. On 4 July 2011, she announced leaving M6 to join France 5. She presented since October 2011 on that channel the program ''On n'est pas que des cobayes'' on Friday during the first part of the evening. Pregnant of her first child, she suspended her participation at the end of the year 2013. In May 2016, she was announced to present the program ''Les Maternelles'' still on France 5.


Personal life

Agathe Lecaron married François Pellissier in 2014 and has two sons named Gaspard and Félix, born in 2014 and 2016.


Television programs

* ''1000 secondes'' with chef Yves Mattagne on RTL-TVI * ''Life Style'' on
Plug RTL Plug RTL is a general Luxembourgish French speaking commercial television chain with international presence and targeting adolescents and young people (15-34 age bracket). The station is particularly popular in francophone parts of Belgium (Wallon ...
, weekly program about the news of the latest tendencies * ''Ça vous fait rire ?'' with Maria Del Rio on RTL-TVI * ''Incroyable mais vrai'' on
TF1 TF1 (; standing for ''Télévision Française 1'') is a French commercial television network owned by TF1 Group, controlled by the Bouygues conglomerate. TF1's average market share of 24% makes it the most popular domestic network. TF1 is par ...
* ''
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'' (season 2) with Stéphane Rotenberg on M6 and RTL-TVI * ''On n'est pas que des cobayes'' on France 5 * ''La Maison des Maternelles'' on France 5


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lecaron, Agathe 1974 births French radio presenters French television presenters French women radio presenters French women television presenters French expatriates in Belgium Mass media people from Paris Living people