"I was a little angry" : Mathieu Gallet back on rumor of affair with Emmanuel Macron (VIDEO)

The case was a mess. It was in February 2017. For several months, there had been a rumor that there was an affair between Emmanuel Macron, the then presidential election candidate, and Mathieu Gallet, CEO of Radio France. During a speech, Emmanuel Macron gave an ironic speech about his “double life with Mathieu Gallet” fueling his “dinner in the city” rumors. “PIf I’m told that I have a double life with Mathieu Gallet or whoever, at dinners in the city, in email loops, to get your feet on the plate, I’m the hologram suddenly walking away from me, but it could be. Don’t be me!”He had started it during a meeting of his supporters at the Bobino theater in Paris.

Invited from “Touche pas à mon poste” at C8 on Monday 30 May, Mathieu Gallet is back in this dizzying political-media event. It’s an opportunity for the publisher of the “Power Games” book to talk about how he reacted to this statement from the president. “I’m dining at a friend’s house, especially with well-known figures like Jean-Claude Gaudin, the mayor of Marseille. And I see the vibrating cell phone in my pocket. ‘Did you know?’ I see my journalist friends texting me. Here I go to Twitter and see candidate Emmanuel Macron just posted his hologram pulse. I’m a little annoyed because the rumor had been floating around for months. Emails come to my own 80-year-old grandmother, saying ‘There’s a photo of Gallet holding hands, going out in the woods’., told. And to continue:He made the right decision to refer to Mélenchon with a hologram, to take it with humor, to wring his neck, it’s true that I prefer him to call me.”.

However, Mathieu Gallet said the president was on the phone the next day, even though he didn’t want to talk to him at first. “The next day she called me. The phone was ringing, it was a private number, I don’t like private numbers in general. Then she said that’s my nose. I didn’t want to talk. I got a little pissed off. She left me a pretty funny, funny message because we both said to each other, ‘What is this crazy story? ( …) This rumor is a creation from scratch, someone who makes this filthy noise not to hurt me, to hurt him‘, he analyzed.

While Mathieu Gallet was already at “C to you,” he had recently returned to this resounding political and media issue, which, according to him, was aimed at destabilizing Brigitte Macron’s husband: “At the end of the 2010s, there were still those who thought that a disgusting rumor about alleged homosexuality could prevent a candidate from running for president. Fortunately, French society is smarter and more tolerant than some politicians.”had guessed.