On March 2, 2022, Nathalie Marquay announced the death of her husband Jean-Pierre Pernaut. Emblematic journalist of TF1 who animated for more than 30 years the JT of 1 p.m., the father of Lou and Tom (fruits of his marriage with Nathalie Marquay) received a vibrant tribute from his former colleague and friend Jean-Luc Reichmannn. Interviewed on Wednesday on BFMTV, the host of Twelve strokes of noon indicated that the death of Jean-Pierre Pernaut was for him a real “stab“.
“He was a fellow traveler for over 20 years. Jean-Pierre it was the truth I think, it was the sincerity it was the closeness and then of an extraordinary fidelity“, he explains, before adding: “It is sure that he was decried by the intelligentsia because it was perhaps not elegant enough and in fact I think it was he who was right in relation to France.“
I can’t realize
Unable to hold back his tears, Nathalie Lecoultre’s husband continues: “I can not realize to tell you everything. I lost, a friend, I lost my bro, I lost my brother, my father, humanly and professionally, he was an example for all of us. (…) For me anyway, he will never be dead. He is always with me.“
After suffering from prostate cancer, which he had overcome in 2019, Jean-Pierre Pernaut had recently been diagnosed with lung cancer. On the set of TPMP in January 2022 against Didier Raoult, his wife Nathalie Marquay was also worried about “four mini strokes“that her husband had suffered…
According to Isabelle Morini-Bosc, the journalist would not have been carried away by his lung cancer “that he was apparently in the process of overcoming“, but rather by a general deterioration in his state of health.”He suffered mini-strokes in February and required open-heart surgery. It was perfectly well recovered and all of a sudden the body let go. It’s incomprehensible, it’s an assault of his whole body“, she explained Wednesday on the set of TPMP.