Évelyne Dhéliat was one of the guests ofWe are live on France 2.
Faced with Léa Salamé and Laurent Ruquier, the weather presenter told how her career at TF1 started in the early 70s. “When the TF1 house was created, we needed a person who matched my profile”, she explained. “When Michel Cardoze left, I proposed my candidacy. I was told: ‘You are doing a month’s internship at Météo France to learn, you are doing a month’s internship in the afternoon with Alain Gillot-Pétré to learn the blue background, you make us a tape and then we’ll tell you it works or it doesn’t work’. And that’s how it started!”
And since it is the oldest CDI of the first chain of Europe. A long and rich career, during which the colleague of Tatiana Silva and Louis Bodin would have liked to be offered the position that Jean-Pierre Pernaut held for more than 30 years. “Me, when I started, what fascinated me was journalism (…) But at the time, women, it was the women’s magazine, and that did not really interest me. I I may have arrived a little early in my career, perhaps I could also have presented the newspaper, 1 p.m., 8 p.m…. But it doesn’t matter”.
The opportunity for the companion of Raphaël Glucksmann to ask him if she would have liked to present a television news. “I would have liked, I would have liked a lot”she admitted. “Why weren’t you offered it?”she asked him. “I’m not going to say that we have a label, but we have a way of being. And then, it’s a career. Me, I’ve never made a career plan, but I had, I would say, lucky to be there at the right time”.
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