Oh dear. It seems there’s trouble in one couple’s Parisian paradise after French president Emmanuel Macron was caught on camera being shoved in the face by his wife Brigitte as the pair landed in Vietnam. The footage spread furiously across social media – with the Elysée Palace initially denying the images were real before eventually admitting that they were indeed authentic. Talk about a tête-a-tête, eh?
The video, captured by the Associated Press news agency in Hanoi on Sunday evening, revealed the president standing at the door of the plane as it opened. Out of nowhere, his wife’s arms flew at him as Brigitte pushed her husband in the face – with Macron looking rather unsurprisingly irritated in the aftermath. After the Palace accepted the images were genuine, a close associate of the French leader brushed the incident off as a couple’s harmless ‘squabble’ – while another member of the president’s entourage played the whole thing down further – insisting it was a ‘moment of togetherness’.
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