Alexandre and Mathieu, protagonists of season 15 of L'Amour est dans le pré, are getting married.
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The fifteenth season of
Love is in the Meadow
ended Monday on M6.
During this final assessment, Mathieu asked Alexandre to marry him.
The two men, who have fixed the date of the wedding for June 12, tell
20 Minutes
the good and bad sides of their participation in the show.
They made France cry.
At least the faithful of
Love is in the meadow
who attended Monday, during the final evening of the balance sheet of the season broadcast on M6, at the marriage proposal made by Mathieu to Alexandre.
The first wrote a letter to the second making his proposal ... which he accepted in tears.
An emotional sequence on which the two men agreed to return for
20 Minutes
.
Did you think about this marriage proposal?
Mathieu:
I quietly prepared this little coup.
Neither the production, nor Karine Le Marchand, nor my family knew about it.
To be honest, Alexandre had a very serious accident in early August.
He left for work at 4 a.m., heading for Marseille.
At 8:30 a.m., I felt a rush of anguish, something sick, like I sensed something was going to happen.
I sent him an SMS - we kept it by the way, we are going to print it and frame it - in which I told him that I was afraid for him.
He told me not to worry.
Half an hour later, I received a phone call telling me that Alex had fallen off his horse and was suffering from a triple bill on his arm.
He was in hospital for several days, he was operated on.
He is now unfit for races [Alexandre was a jockey].
When something like that happens where you feel like you can lose the person you love, it takes an electric shock.
I thought to myself, "Name of a pipe, I already have a disease and, if it happens, it will go before me because of an accident like that."
“So I decided at that time to marry her and ask her when filming the balance sheet because it suited it well.
Alexandre, that upset you ...
Alexandre:
I didn't expect it at all.
It was a shock.
My tears were tears of joy but also of sadness.
I was happy with his request.
But on the other hand, I wondered if I really deserved it.
Have you already set the date of the wedding?
Are you waiting for the Covid-19 vaccine?
Mathieu:
It will be June 12, we won't force anyone to come.
Those who won't come, we won't talk to them anymore, that's all.
(smile) We want to do something with horses, a bit traditional but not cucul la praline.
It will be a simple, efficient, campaign wedding, just like us.
Between you, things will not drag on.
“Love is in the meadow” has changed your life, is it not an exaggeration to say it?
Mathieu:
Plus Alex's because he left everything to come and live with me.
A lot of people say it's very fast.
But you have to know what it is to experience such an adventure.
I think we fall in love ten times faster, because it's so intense.
Maybe only six months have passed, but it feels like three years have passed.
How are the people around you reacting?
Those you meet?
Alexandre:
My relatives are positive.
With people in the street, like that, it's only positive.
Then, in terms of comments [on the Internet], there are people who are against ...
Mathieu:
In one of the last episodes, M6 had this courage, which made me happy, to show us kissing each other.
I had forgotten that we had kissed in front of the camera, because at that time it was quite far away, 30 or 40 m.
There was the wind, the bottle of rosé… You forget it's there.
I'm not sure it's been very common so far for two guys to roll their skates in
prime time
.
The post-broadcast was complicated.
We received a round of homophobic messages.
As much at the beginning of the show, I told myself that people were benevolent, that we had passed a milestone with homosexuality, so much there, I realized that we had not yet won the battle.
It was hyperviolent.
As long as we saw you joking, it was fine, but as soon as there was this kiss, which made things concrete between Alexandre and you, some did not support it?
Mathieu:
That's really it, it is following this kiss which was also relayed by M6 on social networks.
It made a click with homophobes of all stripes.
We were threatened with punishment.
I didn't expect so much violence.
I urge M6, if one day there is one or another gay on the show, to make sure that this person has the solid leather and the psychological capacity to face it because it is violent.
You said you wanted to help, by participating in the show, homosexuals who are afraid of coming out ...
Mathieu:
This week, there were some who sent me messages saying: “You see, we did well not to come out.
As much as the participation of a gay can get things done, the reaction of homophobes slows them down and reinforces them in the idea that they are right to say nothing.
And that bothers me.
The other day, Karine [Le Marchand] sent me a message telling me not to read everything that is being said.
I told him I had a tough rind.
But that attacks me in relation to Alex and in relation to these people who say to themselves "We're not going to come out because otherwise, we're going to get hit in the face."
And it breaks my candy.
And with the other farmers this season, is it going well?
Mathieu:
Extraordinarily good.
I thanked them because I was afraid… I feared that two of them were homophobic because they had not responded to an SMS that I had sent them.
It's stupid, eh, but when you are part of a minority, you quickly make films.
And in fact, not at all!
These two, Eric l'Auvergnat and Eric the goatherd, are the ones who gave me the most kisses and the tightest in their arms.
With this season's farmers, we talk to each other every day on the networks.
You spoke of the middle of the herd as a very macho world.
Your television appearances are not creating a stir?
Mathieu:
I'm going through a complicated time with my partner [Jordan].
Him, he drools because he is shot in the paws.
And I drool because I find that he does not take my defense enough.
I'm sure the show will do us good, because commercially there are things that are developing.
So he will quickly realize that it was useful.
But the in-between is complicated.
Alexandre:
Jordan is a reserved person.
The media coverage has blocked him a bit.
He will see, when we organize days, that people want to come and discover this environment, he will be happy.
But as long as there is nothing concrete and some people talk about us badly, he doesn't like it too much, he doesn't know how to handle it.
Mathieu: What's
more, what happened is that, in an interview, I said that I didn't like bullfights.
The Anti-Bullfighting Alliance did some sort of huge article pretending to be an anti-bullfighting activist, which I am not.
It made a terrible bad buzz in the industry, it was very hard to keep up.
We were on the verge of falling out with Jordan, so it was complicated.
I am having a not very pleasant period.
How do you see the end of the broadcast of "Love is in the meadow"?
Mathieu:
We have a little balls because it's an adventure that stops, it's intense.
It makes a pang in my heart.
With Alex, we were fed up with hiding that we are together, we brought together our Instagrams, we want to show that we are a couple who love each other, to send a message about the age difference… There is also things that are developing with the old candidates.
It's a second life that arrives, just as pleasant and less publicized.
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