Remember, last year, on July 14, Anne-Claire Coudray took the plunge! Indeed, the one who took over from Claire Chazal in 2015 on the TF1 weekend newscast had jumped out of a plane with the paratrooper ambassadors of the Air and Space Force with the aim of to land at Les Invalides in Paris. A high-flying July 14 that viewers of the first channel have certainly not forgotten… And this year again, they will find the journalist on screen for this day of celebration… But, this time on set!
Moreover, a few hours before D-Day, the journalist who needs no introduction shared a moving tweet. The reason ? July 14, 2023 is a date on which the journalist will particularly think of one of her collaborators named Gilles, who unfortunately died on July 6 at the age of 74.
“In a few days, it will be July 14 and you will be in our hearts. I can still see you at rehearsals at 6 a.m., with your mischievous smile and your kindness. Thank you Gilles for all these special programs prepared together. We are so sad…” wrote the journalist in the caption of a photo of Gilles Amado.
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In a few days it will be July 14th and you will be in our hearts. I can still see you at rehearsals at 6 a.m., with your mischievous smile and your kindness. Thank you Gilles for all these special programs prepared together. We are so sad… pic.twitter.com/WazQ3EfAPS
— Anne-Claire Coudray (@ACCoudray) July 7, 2023
Who was Gilles Amado?
Died at the age of 74 following a long battle with illness, Gilles Amado had been at the helm of TF1’s biggest variety showsof “Sacred Evening” or concerts by “Restaurants of the Heart”. Alongside Jean-Claude Narcy, the latter had also produced the traditional July 14 parade for more than twenty years.
Via his Twitter account on July 6, Jean Pierre Foucault also wanted to pay tribute to the director: “He had the gaze, the director’s eye. We owe him our most beautiful TV shows of the 80s/90s. Gilles Amado left to join some of the artists he had sublimated, and who will give him a guard of honor in paradise. Thank you for these twenty years of complicity.A beautiful tribute.