Marjolaine Bui, from “Greg the millionaire” to real estate – 20 minutes
- On the occasion of 20 years of reality TV, 20 minutes offers a series of articles on this phenomenon which has shaken the small screen.
- Marjolaine Bui became known in 2003 as a candidate for Greg the millionaire, then as the protagonist of Marjolaine and the millionaires in 2004.
- Marjolaine Bui subsequently successfully converted to real estate. Almost twenty years after her debut, she is back in television.
Marjoram. A first name that goes back nearly twenty years, to the very beginnings of reality TV. In the summer of 2003, exactly. Despite her elimination in the fourth week, she remains the most emblematic candidate of Greg the millionaire. If she left the image of a sulphurous woman with a strong character, Marjolaine is above all an ambitious woman. “It was my playing card to get spotted,” she says.
The following year, his own program, Marjolaine and the millionaires, propels her to the rank of celebrity. A star from before the age of social media, a time when popularity wasn’t measured by the number of followers, but by the number of magazine covers.
Back to TV
Since 2015, she has been at the head of her own real estate agency in the very chic 8th arrondissement of Paris. A total reconversion imposed by the birth of his son and family life. And if Marjolaine Bui has imposed herself on television by her personality, the former reality TV candidate has made a name for herself in real estate thanks to her work. “So as not to depend on a man,” she resumed her studies at the age of 30. A BTS in real estate professions from which she graduated major, then a license in real estate business management. “I felt like I had to do more than the rest to prove that when you’re from reality TV, you aren’t necessarily stupid,” she explains.
Twenty years after her first appearance, however, she has not completely closed the door on television. Appeared as a columnist with Cyril Hanouna in TPMP, she also reveals that she has a project around luxury real estate with TF1. As for remaking the reality show, why not: “It depends on the project, but it has to be in line with my activities in real estate. Go to a country to develop my business, why not. “