Bridget Macron

Why do you think she wears a wig?

When I said poor Brigitte I meant for her to be so publicly shamed.
None of us are Saints I'm sure???
🙄

Apologies for typos. Predictive text changed Paris Match who knows why.

Thanks Galaxy, the way this relationship began is of concern. I read his parents initially thought his relationship was with her daughter.

Iam64 yes, if it was an older man and he had slapped/punched his younger wife there would have been a media frenzy.

Also the teacher/pupil dynamic would have been questioned.

I haven't ever hit dh in the face, I am absolutely not a saint. If he hit me in the face I hope I would leave him.

He looked very shocked.

Not a joke or play fighting, certainly.

Honestly, I really don't care, so much more to worry about. I am uncomfortable with the teacher pupil relationship, but that was quite a few years ago.
Its natural for people to discuss/ gossip about this but it will die down soon. I don't think I even find this interesting given what's going on elsewhere.

JenniferEccles

He’s 47 and she’s 72!
I remember reading some years back that they met at school when he was 15 and Brigitte was his 39 year old teacher.

I bet their relationship raised eyebrows!

Here it would, but not in France😄

Calendargirl

He looked very shocked.

Not a joke or play fighting, certainly.

Yes he did look shocked

Kate1949

Why do you think she wears a wig?

Such very thick hair which always looks the same?

He was shocked when he realised the camera was there.
He initially lied and said the film was fake, when that was disproved he made light of an argument they were having.
It's really noone's business, l doubt he wears the jackboots in the bedroom.

I have very thick hair that always looks the same . I'm 75.

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I have very thick hair that always looks the same . I'm 75.

Can I borrow your wig?😄

I’m astonished that people are making light of this example of domestic abuse, even suggesting Macron deserved it because of something he’d said or done. Would anyone suggest that if he’d hit her, she must have done something to provoke it? That argument is so out of date, we’ve stopped blaming the victim years ago.

My psychologist son said that reading their body language, it’s highly unlikely to be the first time this has happened. It seems a pretty appalling thing to me that a head of state is being abused by their partner.

Morecambe and Wise used to do something similar.

Ilovedogs22

Poor Brigitte, how awful to have your life publicly disected the world over!
It's hard enough being a woman without being under that level of scrutiny! 🤨

Poor Brigitte? She groomed a schoolboy when she was his teacher. No sympathy from me.

Iam64, thank you for your post at 20:18:41, I was beginning to think it was just me. Nothing about this relationship would be so easily accepted if the roles were reversed. Don't we all teach young children that hitting is unacceptable, what justifies an adult doing so?

They think that BM is really a fella

OldFrill

He was shocked when he realised the camera was there.
He initially lied and said the film was fake, when that was disproved he made light of an argument they were having.
It's really noone's business, l doubt he wears the jackboots in the bedroom.

The whole answer he gave to that interview sounded ridiculous. His body language said otherwise.

I am so sorry for both , their marriage so in the public eye, age gaps do cause public questioning, is it not possible they love each other, a film about Richard Burton made recently has brought questions about the teacher who became his guardian, do some think the same about Mr Tom and William

The whole answer he gave to that interview sounded ridiculous.
He had no choice really. He had to come up with an acceptable story after the Élysée Palace had initially claimed that the clip was fake. The trouble is, that the explanation was not acceptable to many given his shocked behaviour and subsequent anger.

With his upcoming visit to the UK in July, I think Macron's mannerisms with his wife are going to be heavily scrutinised and he will be desperate to have the incident well buried before then. French newspapers will shrug it off fairly easily, but here in the UK things are different in terms of the interest shown in political figures' personal lives

I have to say, I really don't understand their relationship on many different levels.

I remember the outrage when Charles Saatchi was photographed with his hand around Nigella’s throat - how is this different?

Mt61

They think that BM is really a fella

Who are “they” ?
Do you mean you?
Or are you just happy to spread scurrilous gossip?

RosieandherMaw

Mt61

They think that BM is really a fella

Who are “they” ?
Do you mean you?
Or are you just happy to spread scurrilous gossip?

There has been considerable speculation for years about that very subject. Scurrilous gossip it may well be, but it's been all over the internet for years.

The age gap is about the same between Boris Johnson and his third wife, yet that hardly gets a mention let alone an eyebrow raise. Indeed people on here gush about their family.