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“We ate sushi at night in his room”: Matthieu Delormeau looks back on his decisive meeting with Virginie Efira at the start of his career

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After being the star host of C8 for fourteen years, Cyril Hanouna bowed out in March 2025 following Arcom’s decision to permanently delete the TNT channel. Since the start of the school year, it’s on W9 that viewers can find the PAF troublemaker. He is in fact at the helm of a new talk show called All beautiful, all 9. Around the table, we find in particular Matthieu Delormeau, who made a strong comeback after a difficult period. Following his departure from Don’t touch my post in May 2023, the columnist had indeed suffered many hard blows.

In July 2024, he was notably arrested in Paris for purchasing cocaine while he was being monitored by the police. During the launch of TBT9Matthieu Delormeau returned for the first time to his descent into hell. “At the moment, I don’t have an exceptional image, you can’t say that I’m at the top. […] I experienced the police, the justice system, police custody, prison, the cities, drug dealers”he confided.

Matthieu Delormeau looks back on his beginnings alongside Virginie Efira

On April 23, Matthieu Delormeau returned to his descent into hell in a book called Addictions: All it took was once. Through this story, he also evokes the notable moments of his television career, in particular a decisive meeting that occurred well before his debut as a host.

He actually crossed paths with Virginie Efira. At the time, Matthieu Delormeau was responsible for assisting her upon her arrival in Paris, when she was due “Absolutely resume 80 on M6 after the hasty departure ofBenjamin Castaldi pour TF1″he explains in his book, as reported by the Belgian site DHnet.

“We ate sushi at night in his room while I wrote his lyrics”

In his book, Matthieu Delormeau also explains having helped Virginie Efira to write her texts as a host, thus sharing her evenings with the one who would later become a Caesarized actress. Â “I went to pick her up at the station. I discovered a nice girl with a Belgian accent. We drove around Paris in a Smart car, we ate sushi at night in her room while I wrote her texts for the show,” he says.

Virginie Efira nourrissait déjà des rêves de cinéma. “I told him that I wanted to be an animator”explains Matthieu Delormeau. Virginie Efira also played an important role in his career, since it was thanks to her that he was able to get into animation by participating in the casting of the showWe are not angels sur Canal+where he obtained a place alongside Maïtena Biraben, who presented the program. A decisive meeting.