Already more than a month since Jean-Pierre Pernaut left us. The former star of the 13H television news on TF1 died on March 2, 2022 at the age of 71. This Friday, April 8, 2022, he would have celebrated his 72nd birthday. The opportunity for his relatives, like his now widowed wife Nathalie Marquay but also his children, to pay tribute to him on social networks. That same day, it is a well-known figure in the French audiovisual landscape who takes the floor. Questioned by our colleagues from TV MagazineChristophe Dechavanne evokes the loss of this great journalist, he who had attended his funeral last month at the Sainte-Clotilde basilica, in the 7th arrondissement of Paris.
The death of Jean-Pierre Pernaut, Christophe Dechavanne experienced it badly… “It was very brutal, I had heard him on the phone not very long before his deathI didn’t think it would go to hell like that, neither did hehe recalls. I know people who had him barely a week before and to whom he would say with his big smile and his rocky laugh: ‘Don’t worry, it will do it’.“In reality, Jen-Pierre Pernaut’s state of health deteriorated in a few weeks. He, who was being treated for his lung cancer, was hit by another glitch far from trivial: a clogged artery. After a open-heart secret operation, Jean-Pierre Pernaut was placed in a deep coma and lost his life.
The star host of TF1, notably known for having been at the helm of cult shows like Heaven, my Tuesday! and Hello it’s us! shares a lot with the former 13H journalist. “I have lots of memories with him. We weren’t the same guys at all, we didn’t think the same things, we didn’t have the same opinions but we had respect for each other because we worked togetherhe says. Twenty years is obviously not insignificant so apart from the pain, I had to attend his funeral.“More still, Christophe Dechavanne identifies himself in spite of himself with his ex-colleague:”It’s a bit stupid what I’m going to say but it’s even more violent because at my age, we do a little projection. Jean-Pierre it’s me in six years. It adds to the pain.“A meaningful statement for the 64-year-old host…