In the event you’ve been following Valérie Plante on social media recently, you’ve got most likely observed she’s been residing her finest life.
Since stepping down as Montreal’s mayor after selecting to not search a 3rd time period final November, the previous politician has been popping up in tropical locations — like Costa Rica, Colombia, and numerous corners of Brazil — wanting very very like somebody who wanted a break after eight years in workplace.
Seems, she wasn’t simply vacationing. She’s additionally been engaged on one thing.
Plante, 51, has introduced she’s becoming a member of TV5 because the host of a brand new sequence known as Ça brasse en ville, loosely translated as The Buzz Round City. The present will see her travelling the world to discover how cities are being formed and reworked by the individuals who stay in them — a subject she is aware of a factor or two about after serving as Montreal’s mayor from 2017 to 2025.
“I am very proud to affix the group at TV5+, which permits me to remain on the bottom and spotlight improvements that enhance the every day lives of metropolis dwellers world wide,” she wrote on social media.
It is a pure subsequent chapter for somebody who spent the higher a part of a decade immersed in city coverage. The cameras simply comply with her now as a substitute of town council.
Ça brasse en ville is about to air this fall on TV5.