Fred Sirieix ‘bursting with pride’ after daughter wins bronze at Olympics

Fred Sirieix stated he’s “bursting with delight” and “happiness and pleasure” after his daughter gained a bronze medal within the girls’s synchronized 10m platform dive on the Paris 2024 Olympics.

On Wednesday (July 31), 19-year-old Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix and her teammate Lois Toulson, 24, took to the winners’ podium on the Aquatics Centre.

The First Dates star, 52, was seen cheering from the stands as the 2 British divers have been introduced with their third-place medals.

Following the occasion, Sirieix took to social media to toast a glass of Champagne to his daughter’s and Toulson’s success.

“That is essentially the most lovely feeling,” he stated in a video on X.

“I’m bursting with delight, bursting with happiness and pleasure. It seems like I’m going to blow up,” he added. “Women, effectively finished. Thanks very a lot for this wonderful day.”

The French TV star and maitre d’ raised his glass to the display earlier than ending: “To you.”

In a subsequent tweet, Sirieix shared: “I’m nonetheless crying. Thanks a lot for all of your messages. It means rather a lot. Sorry I can’t reply to all. Merci xxx.”

He’s a part of the BBC’s presenting workforce on the video games.

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Forward of the competitors, he stated he can be “too nervous” to commentate on air whereas his daughter competed.

He informed the Radio Instances: “I’ll be on the pool, watching Andrea, not working, I don’t need to touch upon my daughter diving. It’s too near my coronary heart.

“I’ll be talking and commentating post-event when every little thing’s finished. I need to take pleasure in it. No matter what occurs, there will probably be tears.”

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Sirieix shares daughter Andrea and son Matteo Lucien Spendolini-Sirieix, 15, together with his former accomplice Alex Spendolini.

Spendolini-Sirieix made her Olympic debut three years in the past on the Tokyo 2020 Video games when she was simply 16.

She has since secured particular person 2022 Commonwealth and European titles, and her bronze this yr made her the primary British lady in World Diving Championships historical past to safe a medal in a person Olympic occasion.

“Success to me doesn’t equate to medals. I need to go there targeted and decided and joyful. I need to come again feeling like I made essentially the most of it, I gave it my every little thing,” she stated in an interview earlier than her historic victory.

“A contest doesn’t outline who I’m however I actually need to make recollections. With out these recollections, these medals are nugatory.”

Extra reporting by Press Affiliation