Since he released his book “Behind the screen: 40 years at the heart of the media”, Jacques Legros multiplies the interviews. Joker by Jean-Pierre Pernaut for 24 years, the journalist recently hit the headlines by sprinkling the perfect portrait that the French had made of the 1 p.m. idol. This is not the only controversy in question.
Brigitte Macron “born man”?
This Thursday, October 6, 2022, in the columns of Télépro, with our Belgian friends, the television man returned to his recent meeting with Brigitte Macron, who received a lot of criticism. As a reminder, Jacques Legros had received the First Lady of France on his set of the 1 p.m. TF1 in January 2022. At the time, it was a question of talking about the yellow pieces operation, which the president’s wife has been in charge of since Bernadette Chirac passed on the torch of the Hospital Foundation to her.
During this special interview, however, the journalist had also questioned Brigitte Macron on another subject, that of an abominable rumor which had been circulating for several weeks. On the Web, at the time, malicious Internet users had claimed that Brigitte Macron was not born a woman, and that her name was actually “Jean-Michel Trognous“, named after his brother. Faced with the tidal wave, and the complaint filed by the main interested party, Jacques Legros could not avoid the subject.
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He confides in fact to our colleagues: “There was incredible news around the Macron couple. The yellow pieces, that’s why we were there. But at the same time (…) (there were) still some hot topics, which I had to address“, he says.
“It was by mutual agreement with her”
Jacques Legros mentions in particular “this story of ‘born man, etc'”, but also “Emmanuel Macron, we were waiting to know his new candidacy”, and add: “There was also this story of ‘fuck the unvaccinated’ in the press”. To those who believe that his interview was off the mark, Jacques Legros therefore replies that he found it “successful“. And to conclude, even: “I tore my mouth out saying that. But it was by mutual agreement with her”.