Charline Vanhoenacker

Charline Vanhoenacker (born 31 December 1977 in La Louviere, Belgium) is a Belgian francophone journalist, humorist, radio host and producer. Known since 2012 both in Belgium and France for her popular radio shows, marked by political satire and left-wing tendencies, she has been called the most famous Belgian humorist in France. Her childhood in the industrial centre of Belgium gave her a firsthand view of the upheavals of deindustrialization. After studying French literature at the Universite libre de Bruxelles, she obtained a degree in journalism from the Ecole superieure de journalisme de Paris.

Having started her career at Le Soir news magazine as a freelance writer, she moved to Belgium's French-language public broadcaster RTBF in 2010 as their Paris correspondent. In 2012 she covered the French presidential election campaign for La Premiere radio station, and starting that year became a columnist for France Inter, where she has hosted and produced popular daily radio shows known for their ironical comments on politicians.

In 2020 her daily show By Jupiter! had an audience of 1.3 million listeners per day on average. At the end of 2023 she had to stop her morning show after protests and death threats concerning a controversial sketch by her colleague Guillaume Meurice, and in June 2024 she announced that France Inter had decided to end her satirical evening show Le Grand Dimanche soir. She has published collections of her radio commentaries, including Bonjour la France (2015) and Debout les damnes de l'Uber (2020).