It’s an old tweet that has now disappeared and which reappears and which Denis Brogniart, in the midst of professional setbacks, would have done well. Since Friday January 27, 2023 and the publication of an investigation by our colleagues from the magazine Here, the favorite TV host of TF1 has been in turmoil. Many testimonies describe the presenter of Koh-Lanta as a furious cad with his female collaborators, angry and excessive capable of hurtful insults. Worse, he is accused of moral harassment. At the heart of this affair, three journalists who collaborated with Denis Brogniart on various program projects. With always the same description of a violent man in his remarks, little fair play. The people weekly underlines in particular that the latter, achieving good audiences on the first channel, benefited in a way from a policy of leniency. “Everyone knows that Denis Brogniart is capable of humiliating anger in public, especially with women“, Reports a union official from TF1 in the columns of the magazine. “Denis abused a lot of people. Most don’t dare talk about it because they work at TF1 and are afraid of losing their jobs. Channel executives know it, they should stop it from doing harm, but they don’t do anything”, can we read again. Thus Charlotte Namura-Guizonne was copiously insulted by the host, in 2018, when she was a columnist on the set of Mag, during the FIFA World Cup. The latter would have told her that she was “that a shit, just good to smile“. Anne-Laure Bonnet, former collaborator of Denis Brogniart on Auto Moto between 2008 and 2009, confides for his part that the latter is humanly unmanageable even if he is a great pro: “About work, Denis is a great pro, I learned a lot with him, but humanly, it was very difficult. He does not support the co-presentation and throws mad rages with his subordinates. It is the very prototype of the weak person with the powerful and powerful with the weak.” she explains. Finally, Marion Jolles-Grosjean, she, who confesses to having lived with the sports journalist “the worst memory of his career” so he could be odious. Today the collective Women Sports Journalists openly posted its support for these fellow journalists via a press release posted on Friday, January 27 on Twitter. A clear message that ends with these words: “Media managers must imperatively take all measures to ensure that violence at work stops. This cannot go on any longer.”
Denis Brogniart unfollow me on twitter because I had criticized a similar scene in @automoto_TF1His successor Jean-Pierre Gagick did the same for a racist streak on the show #PetroMasculinityhttps://t.co/Dna2TB3jqVpic.twitter.com/CdGqlkrMb2
— Bex (@Bexiron) January 28, 2023
An embarrassing tweet that resurfaces in the midst of harassment
Planted in the center of a motor show, Denis Brogniart poses proudly, surrounded by a pair of young models on each side. Two blondes, two brunettes, well arched for the photo. In legend? “Friends the most beautiful hostesses accompany me tomorrow in #Automoto at the Geneva Motor Show. All news”. A program dedicated to vehicles and sports activities that he will host from 2012 to 2020. At the time, this slightly sexist tweet caused a stir, when even the Tour de France decided to replace its bimbos at the finish with young cycling enthusiasts. Today, this retweet which had fallen into limbo on social networks ironically resurfaces thanks to Internet users who have been victims of the host’s “irrevocable sentence”. That is to say, fired from his account for having made remarks that he did not like… Thus we can read “Denis Brogniart unfollow me on twitter because I had criticized a similar scene in Automoto TF1…” or “Heblocked me for making a joke on a misogynistic tweet” and even “He blocked me for asking him if he yelled at Marine Marck during the ad”. On the networks as elsewhere, revenge is a dish best served cold…
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