Brigitte Macron’s daughter has struck up an unlikely romance with a controversial French television host who blames the French president for cancelling his show.

Tiphaine Auzière, 41, has been pictured with Cyril Hanouna, 50, the creator of a hit evening talk show whose sensationalist tactics and hard-Right penchant forced its host channel permanently off the air last month.

The reported liaison between the bearded bad boy of French TV and one of the French first lady’s three children from her first marriage is said to have started after Mr Hanouna, nicknamed Baba, recruited her to his panel as a legal commentator last year.

Paris Match, the celebrity magazine, broke the story of their supposed entanglement in a front-page spread with a photo of them together at a restaurant in Paris’s chic 8th arrondissement.

“A beautiful story, more than a passing fling,” it gushed, adding that Ms Auzière had revealed her “blossoming love story” to her mother this month. “At the Élysée they were stunned,” it added.