Christine Bravo (born 13 May 1956) is a French television presenter, journalist, columnist and author.

Biography

Christine Bravo was born in Paris, her father Antonio Bravo was a Spanish mason from Toledo.Biography of Christine Bravo on the site of ''VSD'' magazine
At the age of 18, she left her family to live in Paris. She met one year earlier

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, while creating the newspaper '' Libération'', in which she collaborates with the philosopher. After graduating in history at the

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, she passed the contest of normal school and became a teacher from 1979 to 1982. In 1980, she lived for one year in

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. After coming back to France, she published with an editor of Flammarion her first autobiographical novel ''Avenida B''.

Television career

Beginnings in the media

In 1983, she participated at a contest organized by ''

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''. The theme for the contestants was to write a letter about their vacation. The letter of Christine Bravo received the first prize and was published in the daily newspaper.

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, the chief editor of the culture section, engaged her as a journalist, where she stayed until the end of publication of the newspaper. Christine Bravo became later a columnist for ''

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'' and also collaborated for ''

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'', ''L'Événement du jeudi'', ''

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'', ''

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'' and ''

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''. In 1988, she began her career in television and started collaborating with

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in his program ''Permission de minuit''.

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decides to entrust her the notepad of his program ''Ciel, mon mardi !'', but she left the program.

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proposes her to host the section ''Bonheur'' in his program ''L'Assiette anglaise''.

Television presenter

She started presenting on 24 January 1990 on channel FR3 her first program ''Mille Bravo'' about culture and modern art, broadcast on the third part of the evening on Friday. In April 1991, the program was broadcast the first Sunday of every month. In June 1991, Christine Bravo left FR3 to join

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where she hosts ''Merci et encore bravo'', broadcast on the third part of the evening on Thursday. In September 1992, she hosts ''Frou-Frou'' until June 1994. She then presents ''Chérie, j'ai un truc à te dire'' in 1994 and ''J'ai un problème'' in 1995. That same year, she left the audiovisual and after appearing in an advertisement for a laundry powder, she took a sabbatical year. 1n 1998, she started again her career with ''Union libre'' on

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every two weeks. In 2002, she adapted the program to the French counties with ''Douce France'' every Saturday. After a year, the program was not broadcast anymore.

Personal life

Christine Bravo has two children, Mathieu (born in 1978) and Clara (born in 1992).

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bravo, Christine 1956 births French television presenters French women television presenters French columnists French women columnists French people of Spanish descent Mass media people from Paris Living people Elle (magazine) writers