Apolline de Malherbe in Concerning Condition After Her Show, Says “Comment je m’appelle”

Apolline de Malherbe’s weekday mornings follow an almost military routine, shaped by the demands of live journalism, early call times, and a packed family life. According to an interview she gave to Paris Match in August 2025, her day begins at 6:15 a.m., when she arrives at RMC-BFM TV in Paris’s 15th arrondissement long before the city is fully awake. Her preparation starts the night before, when she reads newspapers and reviews the key headlines so she can arrive ready to refine the day’s agenda with her editorial teams. She says she always keeps one foot in both newsrooms, moving between RMC and BFMTV as her morning progresses.

The journalist, who is also the mother of four children, leaves home at dawn while the rest of the household is still asleep. Her schedule is tightly organized, and she describes balancing professional intensity with family responsibilities through discipline and structure. Although she cannot always be present for her children’s morning departures, she makes sure she is available later in the day to pick them up. That arrangement reflects the practical compromises required by her early broadcasting duties and the speed of her work environment.

Coffee is one of the constants that helps her sustain the pace. She drinks it as soon as she wakes up and continues throughout the morning, using it as fuel for a sequence that begins with the matinales and continues through interviews, transitions, and live segments. By 6:50 a.m., she is already in charge of the morning show, steering the program through a carefully timed series of radio and television appearances. Her role requires her to move quickly between formats while staying focused on breaking developments and political news.

After the morning show, there is no real pause. De Malherbe immediately continues with additional on-air commitments, including preparation for political interviews and rapid changes between studio sets. She says the work is often done in a rushed, improvised way in order to remain as close as possible to the evolving news cycle. The pressure is especially strong in a political climate that adds urgency to every morning broadcast and demands constant adaptability.

By 10:00 a.m., her on-air morning block is finally over, but the intensity does not disappear right away. After several hours of nonstop broadcasting, she jokes that she no longer knows what time it is or even who she is, underscoring the exhausting pace of live media work. She then leaves the studios, swaps her heels for a brief break, and begins preparing for the next part of her day.