The news is a shock wave. On Wednesday March 2, 2022, it was announced that Jean-Pierre Pernaut had died at the age of 71. The famous journalist suffered complications after heart surgery as he began to beat his lung cancer. Jean-Pierre Pernaut is in the thoughts of all French people today, he who accompanied them for 33 years at lunchtime with the 1 p.m. of TF1. It is in this newspaper that the journalist received every year the new candidates for the title of Miss France.
Indeed, Jean-Pierre Pernaut was very attached to this event, he who himself married a beauty queen, namely Nathalie Marquay (Miss France 1987). In December 2021, he even inherited the role of president of the jury at the ceremony when he was very weakened by his cancer. “It has been 17 years since he made Miss France shine like no one has done and no one will do it anymore. I lose a friend, someone I love deeply“, has also recognized Sylvie Tellier with the Parisian.
On Instagram, the boss of the Miss France committee also paid her a moving tribute, addressing her support for Nathalie Marquay: “My Nath, I think so much of you, of your children Lou and Tom, of Olivier, of Julia. I share your pain and send you all my love. Goodbye my Jean-Pierre, thank you for these 20 years, your confidence, your friendship, your simplicity. I will miss you so much...”.
She is not the only one to regret the disappearance of Jean-Pierre Pernaut. Indeed, the big family of the Misses united in pain and many of them have greeted his memory on social networks. Elodie Gossuin, for example, described a man “true, upright, generous, sincere, altruistic, loving, madly in love with his wife, France, Picardy…And to conclude:You are part of our lives, forever. We don’t come across many human beings like you and I had this immense privilege“Laury Thilleman for her part shared her “immense sadness“by sharing a file photo of”one of the most humane and benevolent people I have ever met in this profession“.