If we have often seen Jean-Pierre Pernaut on the arm of Nathalie Marquay, the Miss France whom he married in 2007 and with whom he had his two youngest children Lou – who broke the silence on TikTok after the death of her father – and Tom, the journalist did not only know love with the former beauty queen.
Before falling under the spell of the columnist of Do not touch My TV, Jean-Pierre Pernaut lived an idyll with a certain Dominique Bonnet, of which little information is known to the general public. The only sure detail about her: she is the mother of the two oldest children of the former TF1 star, Olivier and Julia, whom he mentioned with pride in the pages of Paris Match in 2016: “Julia, my eldest, is a gynecologist in Amiens. She has two daughters, Iris and Eléa. With Léo, Olivier’s son, I am three times a grandfather“.
All that one can imagine is that his relationship with Dominique Bonnet was ancient history in 2002, that famous evening of the Miss France election during which he looked at Nathalie Marquay, also present. A mutual crush. Fallen under the spell of the former miss, Jean-Pierre Pernaut made at least as much effect as the one who would become his wife: “When Sylvie Tellier was elected, I met the man of my life with whom I had two beautiful children. We’ve been married for 20 years. As soon as I met him, I knew he would be the man of my life.“
The couple formed by Nathalie Marquay and Jean-Pierre Pernaut was then under fire from critics: “I remember the gossips of the time who claimed that I was with Jean-Pierre for his money, for the media side. But we’re still together (…) And we are more than ever happy and in love” she said to Gala. Over time, the journalist and his wife have proven that between them, it was serious. Nathalie Marquay had stood stronger than ever alongside her husband when the latter faced the disease on several occasions. It was she herself who, thanks to her gifts as a medium, had convinced Jean-Pierre Pernaut to go for medical examinations. The sad result, everyone knows it now…