Rebecca Hampton

Rebecca Hampton (born 1 May 1973) is a French actress and television presenter.

She is best known for her role as Céline Frémont in the soap opera Plus belle la vie and for having played Commissioner Paloma Ruiz in the series Duval et Moretti [fr] in 2008.

Furthermore, she co-hosts the show Y'a que la vérité qui compte [fr] with Pascal Bataille [fr] and Laurent Fontaine [fr] , first on TF1 from 2002 to 2004, then from 2023 when the programme returned to C8.

Hampton was born in Pairs to an English father and a Polish mother who was a dance teacher. Rebecca Hampton has a sister, Justine, and a brother, Jean-Baptiste Pellerin, who is a photographer.[citation needed ]

As a child, she played in Chantal Goya's show The Flying Shoe.[citation needed ]

She began acting in the cinema in 1985, in the short film Le Livre de Marie [fr] .

In the 1990s, she played various roles in Mediawan Thematics productions on TF1: notably a groupie in an episode of Hélène et les Garçons in 1992, in Les Années fac [fr] in 1995 where she played Clarisse, a man-eater who was Daniel's unfaithful girlfriend in 19 episodes and also played Patricia in Les Vacances de l'amour in 1997.

In 2001, she made an appearance in the action film Yamakasi: Modern Samurai. The same year, she appeared in the video for the song Le vent nous portera by the rock group Noir Désir in which she played the little boy's mother as a brunette.

She then became known to the general public between 2002 and 2004, after appearing on the entertainment show Y'a que la vérité qui compte [fr] hosted by Pascal Bataille [fr] and Laurent Fontaine [fr] , first on TF1 in which she accompanied the people invited in waiting to find out who invited them.

Then, she played in the successful soap opera Plus belle la vie on France 3 from 2004 to 2022, playing the character of Céline Frémont in regular episodes, as well as in special TV films broadcast occasionally in the first part of the evening on the same channel .

She appeared in TF1 police series such as Commissaire Moulin between 2003 and 2004, La Crim' in 2004 and Julie Lescaut in 2005.

In 2008, on the same channel, she played one of the main roles, commissioner Paloma Ruiz, in the series Duval et Moretti [fr] alongside Alexandre Brasseur and Emmanuel Patron [fr] .

In 2009 and 2010 , she played in the theatre in the boulevard play Attache-moi au radiator, by Raffy Shart, with Anthony Delon and Arsène Mosca [fr] , then in 2010 and 2011 in Le Chêne d'Allouville with Georges Beller [fr] .

In 2011, at the Studio des Ursulines, she paid tribute to the actress and singer Colette Renard (died in 2010), with François Leterrier, Jacques Ferchit, Alexandre Laborde and Sinan Bertrand as part of a Nod to Colette Renard by Pascal Maurice known as Paul Melchior.

On 4 August 2007, 20 August 2011, 25 August 2012, 19 August 2017 and 13 August 2022, she participated in the game show Fort Boyard on France 2.

On 25 April 2013, she announced that she was expecting a baby and that she wishes to move away from film sets during her maternity leave.

She wrote Lettres de là-bas, a book of correspondence with Pascal Maurice known as Paul Melchior, published in September 2013, followed by New letters from there in 2018.

She appeared again on television (notably in Touche pas à mon poste !) and presented the show PBLV part en live! alternating with Alexandre Fabre from 28 September to 7 October. She announced her return to Plus belle la vie on 11 November 2013.

She notably played in a prime-time special of the series Nos chers voisins [fr] on TF1, in TV films from the Meurtres à... and Les Mystères de... [fr] series and in episodes of Commissaire Magellan [fr] and La Stagiaire [fr] for France 3, as well as in the series Léo Matteï [fr] and Camping Paradis [fr] on TF1.

n 2023, she starred in the play For Better and for Worse, alongside Booder [fr] . The same year, she again co-hosted Y'a que la vérité quicompte with Bataille et Fontaine [fr] , when the show returned to C8.

After a two-year relationship with actor Serge Dupire from 2004 to 2006, she had a relationship with comedian Patrick Bosso.

In April 2013, she announced an unexpected pregnancy. Her daughter Eléa was born on 21 August 2013. She subsequently revealed that the father was radio host David Bérard.

In an issue of Gala published in November 2022, she revealed her new relationship, Vincent Azé [fr] , theatre author with whom she has been in a relationship with since 2021.[10][11]