Did you experience this as a failure?
No. I see it as a step in my love life. And even if it was a failure, it’s not something negative. This allows you to work on yourself and perhaps see a few things for the future.
Did you learn any lessons from it?
This experience was extremely positive, whether I stayed with Cindy or not. I have a level of requirement which is now known in our French-speaking Belgium. (Smile). And that only reinforced the idea that I’m right to have them. I will never lower my standards, that’s for sure. With Cindy, there are things that I let go. And in the end, it didn’t work. So why restrict my requirements, when even doing so doesn’t help either?
You continue with a second dating show. Have you taken a liking to television?
It’s not that I’ve taken a liking to it, but clearly, I like this atmosphere, I’m not going to say the opposite. And it doesn’t bother me at all to have cameras around me. I’m not going to lie.
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Contrary to Married at first sightyou leave your romantic future not in the hands of experts, but in those of your daughter, Lysandre. Ultimately, isn’t she in the best position to find you your soul mate?
Yes, Lysandre is the best expert for me. Even if it’s not Marie at first glance, we did their job very well here, there’s no problem. But Lysandre, she lives with me 24 hours a day, she has known me for years, we are extremely transparent, at least in relation to everything that is a possible relationship or not. We don’t always have good communication, but in any case, we try to give each other as much information as possible. She advised me to make fewer jokes, or rather to have a slightly more qualitative level of jokes that everyone could understand. (Smile)
In this first episode of My Mother Your Father, you talk about a romantic “specification”…
It’s a bit like when you’re under construction and asked to do a project. There are specifications with a lot of parameters and things that you need to be able to check off in order to move forward with the project. Here, I see it the same way. So yes, I have a lot of expectations, and we must try to validate as many of them as possible.
But you will have a crush…
Honestly, when I entered the villa and saw all the very nice people who were there, I said to myself that it’s okay, it’s dead, there’s no point in trying to go further (laughs). I hear clearly, they are all very beautiful people. But it’s true that when Tiffany arrived, I said ‘Ah well, yes’ and I said to myself: ‘So much the better, I didn’t come for nothing, actually.’ (smile)”
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You seem intimidated in front of her…
“A woman who I like every time intimidates me. I know that I always seem like someone who is very sure of himself, etc. But I am quickly intimidated by the presence that a person can have. And there, clearly, Tiffany was really lovely and gave off quite an aura when she arrived.
Your words will disturb the women of the adventure. Don’t you sometimes feel misunderstood?
I think the term ‘sometimes’ can be removed. (Laughing) Because that’s definitely the case when people don’t know me. As was the case here when we all gathered around the swimming pool, and I said this sentence and where we then hear Sophie during an interview say ‘the guy, he comes, he says he’s not looking for anything. But what the hell is he doing there?’ I know she has a different vision now. Afterwards, I know that people caricature the guy as being a little inaccessible in himself. I’m used to it, and it doesn’t matter to me that people think that.
Did you feel apprehensive about the image you could project or the reactions on the networks?
None, no. I don’t watch networks much. Now I watch a little more, because it’s funny. By that I mean that even negative, malicious comments, too bad: people think what they want to think, I have no problem with that. I made the bridge to the second experience, and I knew it would be poorly received, I can understand that, but clearly, it doesn’t matter to me.
How do you explain that you haven’t found love outside of the cameras?
I am someone who has a fairly busy active life, but professionally, this leaves me little time for myself. Added to this is the fact that I’m not a big dater, so I don’t meet many people outside of work. Of course, I meet people during my professional meetings, but that’s not really the setting to try anything.
If this experiment doesn’t work, would you be willing to do a third?
If I had to be single, at the end of “My mother, your father”, I would say why not, but we don’t know! (Smile). In any case, it will remain a happy ending, there is no other possible option!
