Cécile Marie Anne Moharic
better known as Cécile de Ménibus (born 16 September 1970), is a French television presenter.
Biography and career
Cécile de Ménibus left high school in 1987 and started working as a
switchboardist in a modeling production agency and then became a
press secretary
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Dut ...
and
stringer for sport magazines such as ''Auto Plus''.
She then got interested in automotive sports and became a photographer for the
Formula One
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races, where she met
Ayrton Senna
Ayrton Senna da Silva (; 21 March 1960 – 1 May 1994) was a Brazilian racing driver who won the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in , , and . Senna is one of three Formula One drivers from Brazil to win the World Championship and wo ...
.
She then started a career on Belgian radio hosting from 1990 to 1994 the traffic and the weather on
Europe 2
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in Brussels.
She also played in a few sitcoms such as ''Cas de divorce'' in 1991, and created a radio for women titled ''Fréquence Elle''. She continued a career in automotive racing and in 1996, hosted the Belgian Championship of tourism cars while driving a
Peugeot 106
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.
In 1997, she worked in the public relations at the Département Promotion & Partenariats of the
Lagardère Group
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for
Europe 2
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and
RFM in 2000.
Since 2001, she co-hosts with
Sébastien Cauet
Sébastien Jean Maurice Cauet (; born 28 April 1972 in Saint-Quentin), better known as the mononym Cauet, is a well-known French radio and TV host, comedian, imitator, singer, DJ and record producer. He has worked at various times as host on TF1 ...
a morning program on Europe 2, and then the television program ''La Méthode Cauet'' on
TF1
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TF1 is par ...
from 2003 to 2008.
Between September 2009 to July 2012, she is part of the team of the program ''Morandini !'' hosted by
Jean-Marc Morandini from Monday to Friday on
Direct 8. In 2010, she presents her own program on the same channel titled ''100% immersion'', in which there are all kinds of enquiries like a document on the
RAID
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* Corporate raid, a type of hostile takeover in business
* Panty raid, a prankish raid by male colleg ...
.
In 2010, she became the assistant producer of
Sébastien Cauet
Sébastien Jean Maurice Cauet (; born 28 April 1972 in Saint-Quentin), better known as the mononym Cauet, is a well-known French radio and TV host, comedian, imitator, singer, DJ and record producer. He has worked at various times as host on TF1 ...
for his program ''Ça va s'Cauet''. During Summer 2012, she co-hosts every morning
RTL the radio program ''Stéphane Plaza vous Z'' with
Stéphane Plaza.
She made a replacement on Belgian radio
Bel RTL in 2013, and hosted in September of that year the radio program ''2 h de Ménibus'' retitled ''Le Ménibus des stars''. The program ended four months later due to logistic problems.
Personal life
Cécile de Ménibus married the rugby player
Yann Delaigue on 29 June 2007.
The couple divorced in 2011.
Television programs
* ''La Méthode Cauet'' on
TF1
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TF1 is par ...
(2003–08), co-host
* ''Cauetivi'' on
Fun Radio and
TF6 (2003–08), co-host
* ''On nous dit'' on TF1 (2008), presenter and editor
* ''Blockbuster'' on
Syfy (2008), presenter
* ''Morandini !'' on
Direct 8 (2009–12), co-host with
Jean-Marc Morandini
* ''L'incroyable casting'' on TF6 (2009–12), co-host
* ''100% immersion'' on Direct 8 (2010–12), presenter
* ''Les Maîtres du rire'' on Direct 8 (2010–12), presenter
* ''Intervilles International'' on
Gulli
Gulli (; stylised as gulli) is a French free-to-air television channel focused on kids programming for those aged 3 to 14. It was created as a result of a partnership between Lagardère Active and state-owned broadcaster France Télévisions. ...
(2014), co-host
References
External links
*
Profile of Cécile de Ménibus on the site of Direct 8
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1970 births
French television presenters
French women television presenters
People from Rambouillet
Living people