“My job to ‘daily’, I did not have it thanks to them”: amber Chalumeau denies having been pistonned by his parents to integrate the talk of Yann Barthès on TMC

It was in 2020 that she appeared for the first time. Moreover, at only 23 years old, on the set of “Quotidien”. Presenter of a culture chronicle in the Yann Barthès show on TMC. Ambre Chalumeau has become one of the figures of the program, also animating special evenings with documentaries on pop culture on the channel.

“It would be thankless. lying to say that my parents did not help me”

Daughter of Arielle Saracco, ex-director of the original creation of Canal+, and Laurent Chalumeau, writer and journalist, from which she drew her passion for culture and reading, she is often considered a favored. On social networks. his 2023 column on the “nepo “my job ‘daily’, i did babies”, these “children of” and Hollywood stars who had made the headlines “New York Magazine”, had also reacted, some pointing the finger at the irony of the situation.

An accusation of nepotism that she accepts, but nuance: “I understand the accusation, I do not evacuate it at all. I really try to make aware of the notion of privilege, I think that is the least of things. It would be ungrateful. false to say that my parents did not help me: I was created for “my job ‘daily’, i did me ideal conditions where it was super simple and encouraged to cultivate “admits the journalist in “Le Parisien”.

“But I would like to recall that my parents have orchestrated anything else. My job at ‘daily’, I didn’t have it thanks to them, for example “she says. It is rather thanks to Marc Beaugé. fashion columnist in the show, and editor -in -chief of “Society”, that she pushes the doors of the studio of the program produced by Bangumi. She had just completed an internship in the magazine.

Passionate about literature. she now embodies the podcast “List of readings” and published in April her first novel, “Les Vivants”, one of the literary successes in recent months, with more than 55,000 copies sold. Regarding this new writer’s cap, she puts the points on the “i”: “I am not a writer. For me. a writer, it is a name that designates “my job ‘daily’, i did a profession, a craftsmanship, therefore the ability to write several books, to have a method. Me, I wrote a book, but I don’t know at all if I will be able to write a second.“