The presenter Cauet, who is accused of rape and sexual assault, will speak on December 10th in “It's not every day Sunday” on BFMTV. The NRJ star will respond to the serious allegations. Here's everything you need to know about him.
Summary
51-year-old Sébastien Cauet (born April 28, 1972 in Saint-Quentin, Aisne) has been in trouble since several women testified against him for alleged rape and sexual assault.
Here's everything you need to know about the host who denies the alleged facts.
What was Cauet's first job?
Still in his native Picardy as a DJ that he will initially officiate on NRJ's airwaves. He animates Weekends and disco evenings. Sébastien Cauet honed his talent at numerous positions and became the…Arthur's assistant at Fun Radio and gets his own show very quickly. He doesn't shy away from this new challenge that presents itself to him, but it quickly becomes a nightmare, because in January 1995 a bad joke about German concentration camps brings him Suspension of broadcast and subsequent dismissal for serious misconduct.
Cauet will need a few years of recovery and going from radio to radio until he stabilizes Europe 2 which he takes over management in the morning. The success has been there ever since brings together nearly 2 million listeners every day around his loyal team, which is slowly building up: Cécile de Ménibus, Cartman, Miko and Piètre.
Who are Cauet's parents?
As he explained to Sophie Davant in Tout une Histoire, it was his biggest regret in life is that his parents died too early to know of their son's success. His mother died when he was 10, his father when he was 20. He said about her: “My mother's death was Cancer and it went pretty quickly. I remember everything from that time almost minute by minute. The announcement, the consequences of what would happen afterwards, the funeral…”
On the death of his father he explains: “ I had to stop studying business administration because I ran out of money. and I'll spare you the details of a funeral you have to organize when you're 20. […] But you don't have time to cry, because the next day you have to do the paperwork for the repatriation of the body, place an ad in the newspaper for the funeral… Everything that, in theory, you shouldn't do at 20.”
What is Cauet's career?
Crowned with great success on the radio microphones, Cauet is recruited by TF1 For host a weekly show. He is developing a show for the station that is intended to parody shows, series and advertising. The Cauet method was born and will have great success every Thursday evening in the second part Evening until 2008.
However, the other shows that followed on TNT, such as Ca va s'Cauet, Bienvenue chez Cauet or Muppets TV, did not have the same success and were quickly taken off the air; He will also spend some time as a short columnist at TPMP alongside Cyril Hanouna.
Today, Cauet returned to the NRJ daily but was forced off the air due to the allegations against him while justice was served.
Who is Cauet's wife?
If Cauet was married to a certain Virginie for twenty years With whom he had two children (Valmont, born February 23, 2000, and Ivana, born May 25, 2002), he is now in a relationship with model Nathalie Dartois. They met at a party and haven't left each other since.
Cauet had a very bad experience of his divorce, as he told Télé Loisirs: “I felt the misery, the fear, of seeing all these couples who no longer talk to each other, two meters apart. On the other hand, seeing this exchange.” the sadness of lawyers who don’t give a damn about their clients. You go before a judge who doesn't care about you, who has ten cases before you and thirty behind you, who doesn't even have compassion. I thought, perhaps because I'm overly sensitive, that this place was terrible.
Cauet and his children
Cauet and Nathalie Dartois have managed to come to terms with their past and create what Cauet is considers himself “his beautiful family” as he revealed to Télé Loisirs in 2021: “My darling, who I am with, also has two children, she raised them very well, with values. (…) You are very smart. I like the role of stepfather, this role is.” Very funny: it's the role of father, but with a little less pressure! I’m not here to be an authority, but to give good advice, be cooler and have a good time with them whenever they want.”
The allegations against Cauet
The moderator was charged with sexual assault of a minor in November 2023 and in retaliation he filed a complaint against his accuser for moral harassment and defamation. At the same time, L'Obs reports that a woman filed two complaints against the host for rape, one of which allegedly took place when she was a minor, and further witness statements were then added to this complaint.
Sébastien Cauet, who was temporarily taken off the air, then filed charges of attempted extortion and defamatory denunciation. But a week later He is the target of two new complaints of rape and sexual assault…