Benjamin Duhamel

Benjamin Duhamel was born March 15, 1994, to Patrice Duhamel, the former director of France Télévisions, and Nathalie Saint-Cricq, former head of the politics division at France 2. His family owns a majority stake in the Nouvelle République du Centre-Ouest, a media conglomerate based in Tours.^{[1][2][3][4][5]} He is the nephew of Dr. Jean-François Duhamel, RTL and BFM TV editor Alain Duhamel, and Alain Castéra (né Duhamel), thus cousin of Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, Minister of Sports and the Olympic & Paralympic Games from May 2022 to September 2024 (and briefly Minister of National Education and Youth from January to February 2024).^[6][7][8] He has four brothers, Jean, Nicolas, Alexandre, and Raphaël.^[9]

Duhamel is in a relationship with political journalist Agathe Lambret.^[2][10]

After completing his secondary studies at the École Jeannine-Manuel and Lycée Henri-IV, Duhamel enrolled at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris (Sciences Po), where he received a diploma in 2017.^[11]

After completing an internship with a cabinet minister,^[11] Duhamel was hired out of college by RTL, the start of his journalistic career. He went on to join the editorial team at LCI in 2018, then became a political journalist for BFM TV at the end of 2019.^[3][12] By September 2023, he was host of the Sunday political interview hour at noon, and evening host of the broadcast C'est pas tous les jours dimanche.^[13]

In 2024, Duhamel took over for Yves Calvi as host of the 6:50 – 8pm time slot for BFM TV.^[14]

In June 2025, Duhamel left BFM TV to join the France Inter morning broadcast Le sept neuf.^[15] He first aired alongside Nicolas Demorand and Sonia Devillers on August 25, 2025.