It is a love story that has lasted for more than three decades. Sophie Davant maintains such a special bond with her audience that she has drawn a book from them, entitled All that binds us. In this book, released on May 19, 2021 by Albin Michel editions, the host of France 2 talks about her career, her tastes, her doubts … and some funny anecdotes that arose when she met certain viewers in real life. Of all of them, we will retain for example that which occurred in the office of a gynecologist.
“I was in the process of having a sample taken. The doctor had his glasses on his nose and spent his time looking at my face, going from my uterus to my face. I was embarrassed, she tells in an interview with Purepeople. And then after a while he said to me: ‘Ah, that’s it, I knew I had seen you somewhere’. It’s part of the times when we are shared by embarrassment and laughter. It is so improbable.“Without giving a name, Sophie Davant evokes a colleague who experienced a similar mishap in the middle of an endoscopy, with a pipe in his buttocks. Ha, the vagaries of celebrity …
At times it is not obvious …
Sophie Davant has sometimes been criticized for certain negative character traits that she denies outright. And for good reason. Sometimes, like all human beings, she is not in the mood to trim the fat, or pose for a stolen photograph. “There are times when someone calls out to you and wants to take a selfie. And now is not the right time, it happens. It’s difficult to always be accessible, available, smiling, she recalls. Sometimes there are people who are disappointed, who say: ‘Oulala, she is not nice’. I try to take all of that into account, to give people what they expect, but they’re not always kind, polite or respectful. At times it is not obvious …“
Interview by Yohann Turi. Any reproduction prohibited without the mention of Purepeople.
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