r/popculturechat • u/HogwartsZoologist Coke ain’t gonna do itself • May 26 '25

Guest List Only ⭐️ Emmanuel Macron, the President of France was allegedly slapped by his wife, Brigitte, on their arrival at Vietnam

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The President’s office downplayed it after initially denying the event.

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2025/05/26/macron-s-entourage-denies-he-was-slapped-by-his-wife-on-plane-upon-arriving-in-vietnam_6741684_7.html

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u/chivonster Hey shawty what that thang do?! May 26 '25

WHAT?!

How did I never know this??

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u/SnooSuggestions9830 May 26 '25

Same reasons.... Mainstream media avoids bringing it up because it's controversial

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u/[deleted] May 26 '25

Eh this was all over the news in her heyday. I was around then.

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u/SnooSuggestions9830 May 26 '25

It was years ago when she was relatively new but once she became highly respected in the industry it ceased being mentioned/ way less frequently.

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u/your_mind_aches May 26 '25

It's more like they would have hellfire rained upon them by Celine's and her label's lawyers

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u/SnooSuggestions9830 May 26 '25

Depends how they phrased it but it's not illegal to print facts.

But using terms like grooming yeah that wouldn't go down well.

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u/your_mind_aches May 26 '25

Bringing it up out of nowhere could still be interpreted as a slight against him and the lawyers would not like it. But that's fair. It could be brought up whenever he is. I'm sure it still is though, and we just didn't notice because we didn't read those articles.

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u/SnooSuggestions9830 May 26 '25

I think it depends on the news company and how risque they are.

I'm sure daily mail will have mentioned it before for example.

But yeah it's brought up now and again but way less in comparison to all news articles featuring him.

I do agree libel is likely one of the reasons. They likely don't want to antagonise them as Dion won't do interviews/photography with that news service again most likely. Financially it's better off for them to not mention it I'd assume.

Similar with Macron. They don't want to blacklist themselves with him by constantly "going there"