Mesdames et messieurs, je voudrais à vous présenter mon nouveau copain, Laurent Debesse.
A man who no matter how tired or bitter the news on TV5 Monde always manages to look, how you say? Ah, yes, frais et savoureux . . .
I say "I would like to present"--well, I think I said I would like to; who knows?--because, hélas, il n'est pas . . .
At least for now.
Anderson Cooper, you just got served.
It's hard to imagine living in a country where someone this lovely reports the news to you every evening. How would you ever hear anything he ever said? "Le Président, Nicholas Sarkozy, aujourd'hui a annoncé que la France a entrée guerre contre les immigrés et la Belgique." (Editor's note: Or something like that.)
Oh la la. I'd miss the whole declaration of war because I'd be too busy watching Laurent's lips move and wondering what's French for "He's so dreamy!"
It's France, so already the aesthetics are off the charts, number 1 with an impeccably designed bullet. But Msr. Debesse seems extraordinarily handsome, which, in my limited imagination, can only mean a couple of cruel things--
- He is too pretty to be taken seriously, and, thus, he must just be a mere TV talking head.
- He is too pretty to be real, ergo, he's a very well done CGI simulation.
- He's real but considered so normal-looking by French standards that Paris Match has let him enjoy his nude romps on the beach in private.
- He's real and real serious, a reporter who just happens to look like a supermodel but is extraordinarily talented at his job. So his more enlightened countrypersons don't dare defame him by putting up posters of him in their bedrooms, culled from the pages of the French equivalent of Tiger Beat.
Je suis désolé, Laurent. I hope to fly to Paris later this year to offer my apology in person.
Drinks maybe? Dinner? You pick the spot.
5 comments:
I confirm: he is much much much more than what you see. You've got to see only a mere 10% of what he is capable of. The charm is incomparable in real life.
Ah, maybe one day I'll find out for myself . . .
Do you still follow Laurent Debesse?
Do you still follow Laurent Debesse?
Not so much these days--I don't receive TV5 Monde on my TV at the moment (and I guess no one did after the recent terrorist attack). I hope he's doing well--and that he hasn't forgotten me! ;-) Seriously--I hope all's well.
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