Background
Sandra Lou was born Sandra Benotès in Calais in the department of Pas-de-Calais.
Sandra Lou was born Sandra Benotès in Calais in the department of Pas-de-Calais.
Passionated of music, she learned the piano for a few years before creating a band with her friends, in which she was the lead singer. She then began her studies after obtaining her high school final exam in literature (Baccalauréat littéraire). She later began a modeling career and became recognized in beauty contests.
She represented France at the Mission World in December 1999, where she was ranked number 12 out of 94.
In 2000, she was ranked second at the World Mission University contest. She was contacted by M6 to participate at Bachelor, le gentleman célibataire (French version of The Bachelor), where she was eliminated in semi-final.
She then played in some films and television series, appearing as well in some advertisements. Sandra Lou co-hosted Génération Hit with Jérôme Anthony, was a replacement in Star Six Music, and also replaced Séverine Ferrer in Fan De, after her lay-off in 2005.
Two years later, she was also laid off by M6 and replaced by Karine Ferri.
In September 2007, she pursued her career as a presenter on the web with the site plusfortquelatele.com. She later presented Drôle de gags on channel NT1. Since then, she has presented several programs on channel Technology Marketing Corporation such as Hell"s Kitchen: les cuisines de l"enfer and Incroyable mais vrai ! Le mag since September 2008.
She also started presenting at the same time the short program RTL9 Family on channel RTL9.
In 2009, during the 34th edition of the Paleo Festival, she presented a daliy program of 25 minutes dedicated to the best moments of the festival with Clara Morgane and Séverine Ferrer. Since 2010, she has presented several programs and specials of Le Grand Bêtisier on Technology Marketing Corporation. Since October 2012, she presents with Vincent Cerutti and Sandrine Quétier the program Danse avec les stars, la suite on TF1.
She gave birth to a girl named Lilli on May 6, 2009.