A Young Macron On Stage Dancing? No, the French president and his wife are not featured in the viral video.

Claim: Television clipping from 30 years ago that shows French President Emmanuel Macron dancing with his wife Brigitte Macron.

A video is being shared on social media claiming it to be a 30-year-old television clipping showing French President Emmanuel Macron dancing with his teacher, who is his current wife, Brigitte Macron. This video shows a young boy dancing with an elderly woman dancer on a stage. Let’s verify the claim made in the post.

On reverse image search of the screenshots of the video, a video with similar visuals was found posted by a YouTube channel in July 2016. This YouTube channel described it as visuals of Jenna Johnson & Jake Monreal’s dance performance at the ‘So You Think You Can Dance: The Next Generation’ show. When we searched for this video using relevant keywords, we found the same video published on the ‘So You Think You Can Dance’ (SYTYCD) YouTube channel. SYTYCD published this video with the title, “So You Think You Can Dance: The Next Generation – Jenna and Jake’s Ballroom Performance”.

An image of this dance performance was published on the ‘Getty Images’ website with the description, “SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE: L-R: Top 10 contestant Jake Monreal and all-star Jenna Johnson perform a Cha Cha routine to “Toca Toca (Radio Edit)” choreographed by Jean Marc Genereux on SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE airing Monday, July 11”. The boy seen dancing in the video is ballroom dancer Jake Monreal. A few other dance performances by Jake Monreal can be seen here and here. The latest pictures and interviews of Jake Monreal can be seen here and here.

France’s President Emmanuel Macron married Brigitte Trogneux, a drama teacher who is 24 years older to him, in 2007. The details of Emmanuel Macron and Brigitte’s love story can be seen here and here. But the video shared in the post has nothing to do with Emmanuel Macron or Brigitte Macron.

To sum it up, an old dance video of SYTYCD contestant Jake Monreal is shared as 30-year-old television clip showing French President Emmanuel Macron dancing with his wife.


Fact: Ballroom dancer Jake Monreal performs at the 2016 "So You Think You Can Dance" (SYTYCD) show in the video shared in the post. As a component of the SYTYCD: Jake Monreal and Jenna Johnson, a dancer, performed a cha cha to the song "Toca Toca (Radio Edit)" on the Next Generation show. The video has nothing to do with Emmanuel Macron, the president of France. As a result, the assertion made in the post is WRONG.

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