Evelyne Thomas

About Evelyne Thomas

Évelyne Thomas is a French journalist and television presenter, who was born on the 10th of January 1964, in Périgueux, Dordogne.
She is mostly known to present the French program "C'est mon choix".

Evelyne Thomas Listen(i) , pronounced [tomas], born January 10, 1964 in Périgueux, is a French journalist and television host, best known for hosting the show C'est mon choix on France 3 from 1999 to 2004.

Biography
Training
Évelyne Thomas holds a Master's degree in International Law[3].

Career
Beginnings
She began her career in the written press, at the daily Nord Matin as a judicial columnist for the assize court trials from 1984 to 1986[4].

In 1986, she joined television as a reporter for the news programme of the regional FR3 Nord-Pas-de-Calais branch. He was entrusted with the presentation of a trend magazine, Les doigts dans la prise, then the regional television news in the early evening from 1988[4].

In 1992, she joined France 3 Paris Île-de-France Centre and presented the regional edition of 19/20. She also presents election nights, Who Is Mocking Us?, a consumer magazine, and Emploi du temps, a magazine about employment[4].

In 1996, she arrived on TF1 and presented a daily talk show, Évelyne, which was stopped after three months[4].

The following year, she conducted investigations on cults and natural medicine for Special Envoy. In 1998, she presented and produced the magazine 7 in France on TPS. In 1999, she co-presented several shows on France 3: Mon auto et moi, a weekly magazine on motorists with Alexandre Debanne and Denis Astagneau, and Pourquoi, comment, a bi-monthly prime-time infotainment magazine with Sylvain Augier.

Consecration with the talk show C'est mon choix on France 3
From November 22, 1999, Évelyne Thomas presented C'est mon choix on France 3 from Monday to Friday at 1:55 p.m. The show produced by Reservoir Prod, Jean Luc Delarue's company, was a great success and made her known to the general public. The program succeeded in rejuvenating the channel's audience by creating a real popular craze for the testimonies of anonymous people and for its host.

C'est mon choix is reinforced on the France 3 schedule. The show is also scheduled on weekdays at 8:20 p.m., on weekends, and for special evenings at 8:50 p.m. But the show was criticized by the press, which considered it raucous and sensationalist. The programme even provoked a debate in the National Assembly and then a formal notice from the CSA[5].

In parallel with C'est mon choix, she presents in the first part of the evening on France 3, other programs produced by Reservoir Prod: Au nom des autres, Des vies d'exception, Symphonic Show.

Discontinuation of It's My Choice
After five years of broadcasting, and despite good ratings, the show stopped on June 18, 2004 due to a disagreement between Évelyne Thomas and Jean-Luc Delarue[6]. She sued and ordered damages against Reservoir Prod, the host's company, which broadcasts old issues of C'est mon choix without her consent[6].

According to Évelyne Thomas, her decision to create her own production company on the advice of her partner at the time was not appreciated by Jean-Luc Delarue and was the reason for the end of the show. According to her partner, C'est mon choix had worked for a year in co-production and it was France 3 that decided not to renew the show[7].

According to other sources, the show was cancelled as a result of her intention to participate as a co-producer in decisions about the show[8].

From 2003 to 2004, she produced and hosted the radio show On l'a vu on television dedicated to the media, every day at 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. on RMC.

Crossing the desert
In September 2004, Évelyne Thomas co-hosted three shows of How Much Does It Cost? with Jean-Pierre Pernaut on TF1.

In 2005, TF1 entrusted him with the hosting of the show C'était mieux hier?, co-produced by Pascal Bataille and Laurent Fontaine, but this entertainment, mixing archive images and on-set sequences, was not a success and only had one issue on February 2, 2005 with a market share of 21.6%.

From November 2005, she produced, still on TF1, a reality show called Starting Over: departure for a better life. This show features women who want to change their lives. The show did not find its audience and Évelyne Thomas left the channel at the end of the year.

She then arrived on RTL9 where she presented from November 6, 2006 to December 1, 2006 a talk show called Chacun sa place!.

She then wrote a readers' letter page until May 2007 in the daily newspaper France-Soir.

In 2009 she made her return to television on Direct 8 with the society magazine Y'a une solution à tout!, without managing to find her audience[4], the show was stopped after three months. The audience was tripled from 30,000 to 90,000 listeners with peaks of 130,000 listeners[9]. Announced then in prime-time still on Direct 8 and then in project with Endemol France, it will not be the case and the channel is parting ways with it[10].

In January 2011, seven years after the end of C'est mon choix, Évelyne Thomas returned to France 3 where she was a columnist in a midday program Midi en France presented by Laurent Boyer. She goes to meet the inhabitants of French cities every week[11]. In September 2011, France 3 asked him to return daily and live on the set alongside Laurent Boyer and the whole team[12].

During the summers of 2011 and 2012, Evelyne Thomas presented a morning radio show on RTL, with Evelyne & News, which mixed news, music and games from 5 a.m. to 6 a.m. and whose audience increased by 26%[13][citation needed].

In June 2013, she stopped Midi en France to devote herself to a Sunday in France.

On March 8, 2017, on International Women's Day, she exceptionally presented live on C8 the show Touche pas à mon poste!, renamed for the occasion Touche pas à ma meuf! (the bet was launched to her by Cyril Hanouna two days before when she was the guest of TPMP). She therefore replaces the latter who participates in the show as a columnist, instead of the usual "media expert".

From April 10, 2018, she presented the show Snapped: Les Femmes Tueuses, on the channel Chérie 25[14],[15],[16].

Return of It's My Choice
Chérie 25 announces the resumption of the show for the end of 2015 on its air with Évelyne Thomas as presenter, whose first shows are filmed at the end of summer 2015 for broadcast from November 2, 2015[17]. However, the show ended on November 2, 2017, two years to the day after its reappearance.

In November 2019, Evelyne Thomas hosted a coaching show called Chérie s'soin de vous[18]. However, it was quickly stopped due to a lack of audience[19].

NRJ 12 announces the broadcast of new episodes of the show from September 2020[20], but in the end it is not unreleased films that are broadcast[21].

Since 2020
In 2020-2021 she presented Evelyne Thomas on the Non Stop People channel[21].

In 2023-2024, she is a columnist in Touche pas à mon poste! on C8[21].

Miscellaneous
In 2003, she was chosen by the Committee of Mayors of France, which distributes golden Marianne awards to deserving elected officials every year, to serve as a model for a bust of Marianne sculpted by Daniel Druet[22].

In 2004, she played herself in the film Podium by Yann Moix.

Personal life
She has a daughter, Lola, born in 2001, whom she had with Christophe Aigrisse[23],[24].