Seven months after the disappearance of Jean-Pierre Pernaut, the image of the star of 1 p.m. of TF1 is tarnished by a colleague. Jacques Legros, who was his joker for 22 years, has just released a book, “Behind the screen – 40 years at the heart of the media” in which he describes a professional in the sense of irrefutable info, but who also had difficulty letting go. And the journalist’s widow did not support these criticisms, which she described as “post-mortem jealousy on VirginRadio, a few days ago.
“It’s his problem”
Also, on October 3, Jacques Legros was questioned about this spat, about South Radio. The television man considered that Nathalie Marquay Pernaut was “free to say whatever she wants” from him. And to add: “That’s his problem.” Right in his boots on what he wrote about his colleague for whom he had enormous respect, Jacques Legros nevertheless stung: “What always bothers me is when we comment without having read [le livre, NDR]. Neither she nor the interviewer had read the book (Guillaume Genton, editor’s note)”.
Before moving on to the rest of the book, Jacques Legros also made a small clarification on “the little clash, the movement of mood” they had with Jean-Pierre Pernaut. He puts it down to containment. And to explain: “We were all exhausted, we couldn’t take it anymore, I think all the French were exhausted, we were too”.
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And if “It was an excellent idea to say: ‘Good, Jean-Pierre, you are not going to disappear from the antenna, we are putting you in the shelter'”, in fact, it also gave JPP a second place which he did not appreciate. To this, Jacques Legros sympathizes: “Me, in his place, I would probably have freaked out too because it was not easy”. Not to mention that the man over 70 was locked up in his home.
“We made hot throats of it but it’s stupid”
Finally, the author of “Behind the screen – 40 years at the heart of the media” made his mea culpa on the airwaves of South Radio, this Monday. He assured: “It’s true suddenly that he had a tendency to want to intervene and at one point, we must have been very tired, I had this change of mood. We made hot throats but it’s stupid” .
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