Valérie Trierweiler, the "misunderstood" former first lady at "Beijing Express"

• The first episode of

  Beijing Express, shock duos

  is broadcast this Wednesday, at 9:10 p.m., on M6.

• Valérie Trierweiler is one of the candidates for this special season filmed in Sri Lanka.

• “I have refused, in the past, to do several reality shows.

  Beijing Express

  is a program that I love, that I watch.

  The idea was to share this adventure with my best friend”, explains the journalist whom the show presents as “ex-first lady”.

“I was a misunderstood first lady,” laments Valérie Trierweiler in the first episode of

launched this Wednesday at 9:10 p.m. on M6.

Did François Hollande's ex-girlfriend take part in this edition of the game, alongside other personalities (see box), to finally be understood by the public?

“There was no strategy on my part, immediately replies the person concerned during the press conference.

I have refused, in the past, to do several reality shows.

is a program that I love, that I watch.

The idea was to share this adventure with my best friend.

»

“Maybe I will pave the way for Brigitte Macron”

It is therefore in tandem with Karine, whom she has known for twenty years because their children were enrolled in the same primary school, that the journalist traveled the roads of Sri Lanka at the start of the year.

“She was the ideal partner for me because she is the ideal friend.

If she had said no, I don't know if I would have done it,” adds Valérie Trierweiler.

If the show does not miss an opportunity to remember that she is a former "first lady", she refuses to be locked into this role.

“It's true [that I was] but it's twenty months of my life.

I'm 57, I'll let you do the math… For me, that's not the essence of my existence.

My life is my child, my job, my friends,” she says.

And to follow with a pirouette: “Maybe I will pave the way and that Brigitte Macron will participate in the next edition.

»

“Very quickly, she wanted to evacuate the first lady side, confirms the host Stéphane Rotenberg.

She has a competitive instinct pegged to her body and then, in

, you have to give up the desire to be to your advantage: you are with your backpack, shaggy, sweaty…”

“In the end, we don’t even wash our hair anymore”

This lack of control over the image did not bother the candidate: “The first day, we have our hair done and make up.

On the second day, we put on a little lipstick.

The third day, it's over and, at the end, we don't even wash our hair anymore, ”she summarizes with a smile on her lips.

If jumping into the unknown with a simple backpack was a new experience for Valérie Trierweiler, this is not the first time she has embarked on an adventure.

“I did a lot of sporting raids with Karine.

The first time was in 2014, so shortly after my departure from the Elysée.

A girl came to see me saying: "It's brave to come and put you in misery like that in front of everyone".

“Misunderstood, always.

Because she insists: “I am not different from you.

I do my shopping, my housework…”

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"Shock Duos"

In addition to Valérie Trierweiler and her friend Karine, five pairs are taking part in this edition of the “shock duos” of

.

If the sports journalists Yoann Riou and Xavier Domergue, known to the general public, team up when they had never met before, all the other pairs are made up of a personality and one of his relatives.

The comedian Inès Reg is accompanied by her big sister Anaïs, the disabled swimmer Théo Curin by her manager Anne and the ex-Miss France Rachel Legrain-Trapani by her companion Valentin.

Influencer Just Riadh participates with his best friend Abdallah.

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