Christine Bravo, financially deprived because of her boat: “I left everything there…”

Christine Bravo is in heaven! His barge called “Frou-Frou” was chosen to participate in the Olympic parade in Paris on the Seine on July 26. A truly “victory” for the host of Under the petticoats of history, for whom it was the cross and the banner after the acquisition of his boat. The member of Big heads confided in the Parisian on the many financial worries she had to face…

Christine Bravo and her financial problems because of her barge: “I left everything there…”

“If I had known, damn it, I would never have bought it in 2018“, said Christine Bravo about her (yet) beloved boat, Frou-Frou. It must be said that the host had many financial problems because of this barge, which had holes in the hull when she bought it.”The ‘Frou-frou’ spent nine months in the shipyard. Then, we carried out very heavy transformation work to be able to accommodate passengers.“, she detailed. The presenter had a project in mind: organizing historic cruises on the Seine with Frou-Frou.

The problem? The work of this Dutch star was completed right at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic! “Our business activity was just beginning. We had zero turnover, so we had zero help“, she remembered. The situation was so critical for Christine Bravo that she had to resort to radical methods: “I left all the life insurance there that I planned to leave to my children. Anyone in my place would have thrown in the towel“.

Will Christine Bravo parade aboard her boat during the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games?

Despite everything, the acquisition of this boat allowed her to find love since her husband, Stéphane Bachot, owns a real estate agency specializing in barges in Paris and it was his services that she had called on. era. “After many visits, I realized that I had fallen in love with Stéphane“, she confided to Parisian.

And now, his barge takes him to the Olympic Games! Or almost. If Frou-Frou will parade on the Seine during the Olympic parade – except in the case of plan B due to weather or attack alert – Christine Bravo will not be on board. “For security reasons, there will only be the captain and his sailor“, she explained before specifying: “I will find out which country will board my boat at the same time as all the French“. The former presenter of the show Frou Frou will watch the show from the barge on which she resides, which is moored near Notre-Dame. The rest of the year, she lives in Corsica.