TV career

Gaël Leforestier began his career at the age of 15, portraying Pierre de Marivaux

Pierre de Marivaux

Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux , commonly referred to as Marivaux, was a French novelist and dramatist....

 in Le Triomphe de l'amour, in Paris. In 1992 he wrote and directed a short film with Stévenin Robinson entitled Stop.

In 1994, he participated in various castings. He was spotted by Michel Drucker

Michel Drucker

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 and got a job as columnist in the show Studio Gabriel on France 2

France 2

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.

From 1998 to 2000, he hosted the program En Juin on La Cinq

La Cinq

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. Thereafter, he became the host of Sex in the TV on Channel Téva

Teva

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, then Plus vite que la musique on M6

Métropole 6

M6, also known as Metropole television, is the most profitable private national French TV channel and the third most watched television network in the French-speaking world...

 (2000-2001). Laurent Ruquier

Laurent Ruquier

Laurent Ruquier, born February 24, 1963 in Le Havre , Normandy, France is a popular French journalist, satirical comedian, and TV and radio host. He is also a columnist, lyricist, author, screenwriter, and impresario.-Biography:...

 invited him to join his team on his radio program On va pas s'gêner between 1999 and 2000. In the 2001 summer, he hosted the show Unique en son genre on TF1 Sundays in the second part of the evening.

Back on France 2, he co-hosted a prime-time show Code de la route : le grand Examen with Michel Drucker, as well as Comme on s’aime. After that he hosted On est comme on est on Sunday evenings. Finally, for one month in September 2003 he directed the show Qu'est-ce qui se passe quand ?.

During the 2004-2005 season, he arrived on TMC

TMC

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 to host En quête de nuit. On New Year's Eve 2008, he hosted Imagina

Imagina

is the name of an annual conference on computer graphics that takes place in Monte-Carlo, Monaco. It was created by The Institut national de l'audiovisuel . The first IMAGINA festival was held in 1981, while the actual name IMAGINA was only introduced in 1986. It is sometimes compared to the CG...

from the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco

Monaco

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. In 2009, he hosted the show Kamikaze on TF6

TF6

TF6 is a French television channel broadcasting entertainment intended for young adults.- History :TF6 was founded in December 2000 by Métropole 6 and TF1 when they decided to bring closer their two competitor family projects chain on the cable and satellite service TPS, of which they are the two...

, every Sunday evening.

Personal life

He was married to Claire Dabrowski, director of the magazine programs on France 2

France 2

France 2 is a French public national television channel. It is part of the state-owned France Télévisions group, along with France 3, France 4, France 5 and France Ô...

, with whom he had a son in 2002.