Jean-Pierre Pernaut died on March 2, 2022. The former presenter of the 1 p.m. news from TF1, who suffered from lung cancer, underwent open-heart surgery. Following complications, he was plunged into a deep coma before losing his life. A huge shock for his wife Nathalie Marquay, as well as his children Lou, Tom (born from his union with Miss France 1987 in 2002 and 2003) Olivier and Julia (born in 1981 and 1978 from his former marriage with Dominique Bonnet). His public but also his friends have a hard time believing that he is gone. Guest in the special Jean-Pierre Pernaut, a Frenchman like the othersbroadcast last night on TF1, Christophe Dechavanne spoke about his late friend.
For no less than nineteen years, Christophe Dechavanne produced How much does it cost ?a program that Jean-Pierre Pernaut presented from 1991 to 2010. “I didn’t realize at the time when I was working with him, what incredible popularity this man had with families“, he confided. He then revealed that many people who have gone through the program have sent him text messages since the announcement of his death. And to confide that between Nathalie Marquay’s husband and him, “sometimes it was hot“because of their strong characters. Despite everything, they were close and never lost contact.
Christophe Dechavanne had a moved thought for the family of Jean-Pierre Pernaut and praised the strength of the latter. After beating prostate cancer in 2018, he had been battling lung cancer since last spring. He was operated on in the greatest secrecy, under another identity. A successful intervention. Unfortunately, he later learned that the other lung was affected and that he had to undergo radiotherapy, a new operation being too dangerous for his health.
His fight, he had wanted to highlight it in order to alert the public to the terrible consequences of the consumption of cigarettes. He who smoked for fifty years. “He also told people ‘don’t smoke, quit smoking, I was stupid.’ If you knew how much we fucked him up with that. We pissed him off, even banning him from the premises if he ever smoked. It was terrible fights“, remembered Christophe Dechavanne.
This error, Jean-Pierre Pernaut had mentioned it on the airwaves of RTL at the microphone of Pascal Praud, at the end of November 2021. This lung cancer “comes to 80% tobacco” he confided. “All my life I have smoked. Well, I fell into the trap. I say it, I was stupid, quite simply…“, had regretted the one who smoked two packs a day. He then advised those who listened to him to stop smoking.yelled at“all his life or his colleagues. It was only when he learned of his illness that he stopped, overnight.