Repeated mistakes. This Sunday, July 2, 2023, after 40 years of good and loyal service, Catherine Matausch bid farewell to viewers. For the occasion, the 63-year-old journalist had prepared a short speech. “It’s not over because I’m tackling new adventures. There’s so much to do in the light and in the shadow of television…”, confided the star of 19/20 with emotion before being suddenly cut off. Indeed, a pub page was launched in the middle of a sentence. A “shame” for Internet users who were numerous to point the finger at the channel.
“Totally ashamed to have cut Catherine Matausch for the last from her diary! She didn’t deserve that!”, “Another feat from France Télévisions… Good luck and good health Catherine Matausch!”, “Poor Catherine Matausch hadn’t did absolutely nothing and didn’t ask for anything! What a lack of respect to have put advertising in place of Catherine’s farewell”, “Catherine Matausch’s farewell to 19/20 miserably cut off… by an advertising page. What deep disrespect”, “What a lack of respect on the part of France 3 towards Catherine Matausch, who presented her last newspaper this evening, by cutting her off and sending the ad during her leaving speech”, could we read in particular on Twitter.
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On his side, Fabienne Amiach also took over her social networks to support her colleague. “It’s becoming a habit to cut off goodbyes… A friendly thought for Catherine Matausch with whom I shared 32 years at FTV”wrote the former Miss weather.
It’s becoming a habit to cut goodbyes A friendly thought for Catherine Matausch with whom I shared 32 years at FTV
— Fabienne Amiach (@Fabiboune) July 2, 2023
As a reminder, like Catherine Matausch, Fabienne Amiach had also been cut off by an advertising page during her farewell in 2021. “I’m too moved… I’m leaving and it’s so moving”, she had declared before her acolytes landed on the set to show her all their tenderness. Not cool…
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