It’s a part of her career that she doesn’t regret, but she wouldn’t go back for anything in the world: from 2005 to 2016, Élise Lucet played the 1 p.m. news on France 2, before giving up her place to Marie-Sophie Lacarrau, who herself left it to Julian Bugier in 2021, to succeed Jean-Pierre Pernaut on TF1. Questioned by Éric Dussart and Jade in the show We’re doing TV again broadcast every Saturday on RTL, the journalist who runs the magazines Correspondent And Cash Investigation with a masterful hand for more than ten years, confides that he has forgotten his years spent at 1 p.m., and has no regrets: “I was delighted to do both the 19/20 and the 1 p.m., because it lasted 26 years, but very happy to stop“ she confided.
Indeed, before inheriting the reins of 1 p.m. from France 2, Élise Lucet cut her teeth on France 3, where she was the owner of 19/20 from 1988 to 2005. She had given way to Audrey Pulvar, herself replaced in 2009 by Laurent Bignolas, then the following year by Carole Gaessler. But today, the highest paid journalist at France Télévisions does not intend to turn back, and is even proud to be one of the only ones to have been able to say stop to television news: “It’s rare, I think, for a news presenter to say at one point, stop, I’m fed up, I want to stop”. However, she is not the only one to have resigned from a television news program herself: if Claire Chazal, Laurence Ferrari, David Pujadas and Patrick Poivre d’Arvor were indeed dismissed, Harry Roselmack, for example, voluntarily resigned from his role as PPDA joker.
Does the appointment of Rachida Dati to Culture scare her?
Asked about the arrival of Rachida Dati at the Ministry of Culture, with whom she had a heated argument during a filming of Cash Investigation, the journalist said she was confidentarguing that no minister had the possibility of intervening on France Télévisions: “In people’s minds, it is the minister who chooses the president and the journalists from France Télévisions, but that is not how it happens”. For her, it is out of the question to imagine the end of Cash Investigation ordered by the minister she crushed in this show in 2015: “I don’t think so. When we stop a show, it’s because it no longer resonates with viewers, not because they have a phone call from a minister. I have never seen this“.