He was partnered with Nathalie Saint-Cricq,[4] former head of the political department of France 2, and whose family was the majority shareholder of the group Nouvelle République du Centre-Ouest.

Their son, Benjamin Duhamel, worked as a political journalist at BFM TV alongside his uncle, Alain, who was an editorialist there.

He attended the Édouard-Branly high school in Nogent-sur-Marne and later the Lycée Condorcet in Paris, followed by economics studies at the University of Assas.

[1] In 1980, the channel entrusted him with a political program called Le Grand Débat.

[1] He was the general director of France Télévisions in charge of programming and diversification during Patrick de Carolis' presidency of the group.