Jean-Pierre Chalençon and Christophe Leroy at the Palais Vivienne, October 29, 2020. -

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Oh dear, boss, I think this time it's burnt!

Since the case of Pierre-Jean Chalençon's clandestine dinners broke this weekend, the lively Leroy's Business Club has stopped taking reservations, and for good reason: its website is down and its official chef, Christophe Leroy, no longer responds.

"I have no restaurant", he only slipped to the CheckNews service of

Liberation

.

This is true, since the chef is in reality a private caterer and as such, he officiates for many clients, like his “friend” Pierre-Jean Chalençon.

Extract from the @CheckNewsfr survey ✍🏻



Contacted by CheckNews, chef Christophe Leroy firmly denies any involvement: “I have no restaurant”.



Faced with the question on Instagram posts open for all to see, he prefers to end the conversation.

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- Release (@libe) April 4, 2021

When

Libé

still asks him the question of the photos published for all to see on his Instagram account, in addition to those which have aroused the mockery of many Internet users, he prefers to end the conversation.

It is that Christophe Leroy may well be the “chef friend of the stars”, as it has been written here and there, the man is far from being a star of the kitchen.

"Faithful to the great bourgeois cuisine of yesteryear" for the critic Gilles Pudlowski, he is best known for his career in the form of a more or less floating island.

His hour of glory, the 57-year-old Norman cook knew him in Saint-Tropez in the 1990s, where the jet-set frequented its restaurants more for the “white evenings” which were organized there than for the quality of its cuisine. .

"It was rubbish", remembers a regular interviewed by

Le Parisien

, who mentions in particular asparagus served at Christmas - a spring product.

And this regular to add: “Leroy had people in his restaurants every day.

All these people, when they were having a party, called Christophe.

He has always been interested in this universe, it made him shine, and above all, behind, there is money.

"

But he quickly loses money, and a lot.

To the point of no longer being able to pay his suppliers, his associates, his staff - and not only in Saint-Tropez, where this situation provokes the anger of Pamela Anderson, with whom he was to open a vegan table in 2017 - but also to Avoriaz, in Saint-Martin, in Marrakech ...

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It is in Paris that he has been trying to bounce back in recent years, thanks to his address book provided.

As a “caterer” through the Leroy's Business Club, he organizes meals for two, four or six guests, in complete discretion.

At least until the day when one of his "friends" Pierre-Jean Chalençon, decides to advertise him which he would no doubt have done well.

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