Hélène Gateau (born 7 December 1980) is a French

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and

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. Since 2011, she presents the section dedicated to animals in the daily television program ''Midi en France'' presented by

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. Since September 2014, she presents the documentary series ''Hélène et les animaux'' on

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Early life and education

Hélène Gateau was born in Saint-Quentin in the department of

Aisne Aisne ( , ; ; pcd, Ainne) is a French department in the Hauts-de-France region of northern France. It is named after the river Aisne. In 2019, it had a population of 531,345. After having obtained her scientific high school final exam with very good honor, she studied at the École nationale vétérinaire de Nantes and at the

École nationale vétérinaire d'Alfort The National veterinary school of Alfort ( or ''ENVA'') is a French public institution of scientific research and higher education in veterinary medicine, located in Maisons-Alfort, Val-de-Marne, close to Paris. It is operated under the superv ...

, where she presents at age 22 a veterinarian doctoral thesis about dog behavior. She then became a veterinarian in a liberal veterinary practice before joining industrial companies like

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and

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, after a master's degree at the

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Television career

France 3

In December 2010, she received an invitation for a

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. She was then selected to become a

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for the animal section in the program ''Midi en France'' with

, who was the host from January 2011 to June 2015, and that began on

on January 31, 2011. In the program, she presented reports about different animal species and breeds of the regions where the program took place. Every week, Hélène Gateau attempted to adopt animals who were abandoned and were saved by refuges, presenting them on the screen. She left the program in June 2015.

France 5

In September 2014, she started presenting the documentary series ''Hélène et les animaux'' that she will present full-time in September 2015, and in which she goes exploring in France and foreign countries, the relationship between humans and animals.

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