Nathalie Marquay is going through one of life’s worst trials. On March 2, 2022, Miss France 1987 announced through AFP that her husband Jean-Pierre Pernaut had died at the age of 71. He thus leaves behind his wife but also his children Lou and Tom (born from their union in 2002 and 2003) as well as Olivier and Julia (born in 1981 and 1978 from the former marriage of the late presenter of the 1 p.m. news on TF1 with Dominique Bonnet). This Wednesday, March 9, his funeral will take place at the Basilica of Sainte-Clotilde in the 7th arrondissement of Paris. Nathalie Marquay will then have to go through another ordeal, as our colleagues fromParis here in their current edition.
It was in Louveciennes that Jean-Pierre Pernaut and Nathalie Marquay had created their little love nest. A place chosen for the beauty of the place but also for its proximity to the TF1 tower. Together and with their loved ones, they created many memories there. But Lou having moved to Paris and Tom following his studies in Lille, the couple planned to leave this house in which they had lived for almost twenty years.
The house having become too big, Nathalie Marquay and Jean-Pierre Pernaut had plans to move to Antony, a French commune sub-prefecture of the Hauts-de-Seine department, when the famous presenter would be retired. Together, they planned to enjoy 100% of their love affair or their children. But destiny decided otherwise. Two years after beating prostate cancer, the presenter had to fight lung cancer, right first. Last September, he underwent an operation in the greatest secrecy, at the Georges Pompidou hospital in Paris. Although it was a success, he later learned that the ache that was eating away at him had spread to his left lung. A new intervention being too dangerous for his health, he followed radiotherapy sessions. After “4 mini-strokes” at the start of the year, he underwent open-heart surgery and, following complications, he was plunged into a deep coma before losing his life.
It is therefore only that Nathalie Marquay will have to move to Antony, an additional blow for the former beauty queen who must now learn to live without the love of her life.