Mary Patrux is a renowned French host and journalist. Since 2013, she has presented NBA Extra on BeIn Sports and gives her opinion on various sporting events.
Wiki/Biography
Mary Patrux Canton was born in 1979 in Lesquin in the North. Her full name is Mary Patrux Canton (after marriage.) Mary grew up in the suburbs of Lille before settling in Cergy-Pontoise.
Mary Patrux child
She always had a passion for sport and played basketball at the national level while growing up, being recruited at INSEP (the National Institute of Sport, Expertise and Performance) in France. The young woman attended the Catholic faculty of Paris from 1997 to 1999 then obtained a degree in history at the University of the Sorbonne (1999-2002). She was then admitted to Notre-Dame De La Compassion Secondary School for three years and obtained a bachelor’s degree in economics and social sciences.
Mary Patrux in her youth
When she discovers that she will not be able to become a professional basketball player, she does a large number of internships at Ouest-France, BFM Radio, Radio Protestante, RTL, Info sport, as well as at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She then attended and graduated from the Practical Institute of Journalism from 2002 to 2004. Subsequently, she chose sports journalism as a career path, so she began her career as a journalist at Eurosport France. She entered the BeIN Sports channel.
Physical appearance
- Eye colour: Clear
- Hair color: Blonde
Family and ethnicity
Parents and Siblings
Her father was a business owner and her mother was an executive secretary.
Parents of Marie Patrux
Parents of Mary Patrux with her children
She also has a younger brother.
An Instagram post of Mary Patrux with her brother during their childhood
Relationships, spouse, children
Mary Patrux is married to rugby journalist Olivier Canton. Olivier works for Eurosport.
Mary Patrux with her husband and daughter
The couple have a daughter named Louise and a son named Paul.
Mary Patrux with her two children
Career
Childhood, youth and training
Mary had a family background in sports, so it was only natural that she would be interested in it as well. She acquired her basketball license in Franconville when she was only eight years old. During her youth at INSEP, she was a winger. She was mostly admired for her marksmanship – she has an admiration for three-point snipers – but she is also known as grumpy, as evidenced by her competitors who gave her a nickname, “Nellie Oleson”.
2004-2009: Debut at Eurosport
Apprentice in the second year of journalism school, Mary Patrux spent her summer working for Eurosport. His first mission was to catch up with the Athens Olympics. In addition to doing live reporting, she also did commentary, reporting and set design at particular events. She joined Eurosport the following year.
2009-2012: Presenter for L’Équipe TV
With five years of experience at Eurosport, Mary Patrux joined L’Équipe TV in September 2009 as host of the La Matinale weekend. A little more than three months later, Charles Biétry entrusted him with the responsibility of leading the Forum l’Équipe. She is also engaged in the show Weekend Live.
Mary Patrux in L’Équipe TV
2012- Present: Career at BeIn Sports
She was lucky enough to join BeIn Sports in 2012 when it was still in its infancy. As part of the creation of the show channel, Mary Patrux is involved in the recruitment circle, the planning process and the identification of show names. Therefore, it took five months after it appeared on its official launch day. In her first year, she organized and animated the Euro show and Le Grand Stade with Darren Tulett, then with Marie Portolano in her second year.
Marie Portolano and Mary Patrux
In 2013, NBA Extra, a daily news program dealing with the NBA, was entrusted to Patrux. In addition to basketball, there are different types of sports that the host covers on air, such as handball with, among others, the world championships, European championships, NHL and LFH trophy presentations, and swimming. .
Mary Patrux in NBA Extra
In 2019, Mary Patrux was approached by the sports department of France Télévisions with the aim of replacing Flore Maréchal in order to present Tout le sport, co-host Stade, and become an event commentator, but the transfer did not take place. Thus, she remained on BeIn Sports, hosting NBA Extra and major events. She was also appointed as an ambassador for Parions the same year.
controversies
The La Maison des Maternelles star announced in one of her episodes of the show that she had been discriminated against by a former employer because she was pregnant in 2021.
Facts / Anecdotes
- She loves to play basketball and has been playing it since childhood.
Mary as a basketball player in her youth
- Her competitors sometimes nickname her “Nellie Oleson” after the unsympathetic, manipulative and arrogant character of La Petite Maison Sur la prairie in Normandy, where she sometimes plays. She’s the leader of a group that “outwitted the greats but lost all the way,” which makes sense since she outwitted the greats “didn’t play for a career, but to find herself and go. at the barbecue afterwards”.
- Her first Instagram post was on October 19, 2012. It was a photo of herself.
Mary Patrux’s first Instagram post
- Marie Portolano directed the documentary ‘I’m not a bitch, I’m a journalist’ (2021) [Je ne suis pas une salope, je suis une journaliste] where she also makes an appearance.
The cover of I’m not a bitch, I’m a journalist (2021)
