It’s a page that turns… This Wednesday, March 2, 2022, Jean-Pierre Pernaut breathed his last at the age of 71 after battling illness. Nathalie Marquay’s husband had been suffering from lung cancer for several months. On the waves of RTLIsabelle Morini Bosc explained that the famous presenter would have had “small strokes in February, an open heart operation from which he had recovered well before a sudden deterioration in his general condition which forced him to fall asleep at the very beginning of the week”.
His sudden disappearance obviously shocked his relatives who were hoping for a miracle. Yesterday, stars and anonymous were numerous to salute his memory. Like Evelyne Dhéliat or even Denis Brogniart who knew him well. “You were of invaluable help when you told me without the slightest hesitation ‘go for it’ when I was offered to present Koh Lanta. rare thoughtfulness. As always, you took the time to listen and give your feelings with kindness. It’s your trademark. It is luminous”he wrote via his social networks.
For his part, Patrick Poivre d’Arvor has also come out of his silence to talk about it on BFM TV. For many years, the journalist worked alongside Jean-Pierre Pernaut on TF1. Unsurprisingly, his pain is immense.
“He’s a boy that I liked a lot. Very curiously, we had bonded more since our successive departures from the newspaper than during the time when we were fueled dry one and the other […] He was a friend. It’s a part of my life that is falling apart”, confessed the ex-companion of Claire Chazal. In a completely different sequence, he took the opportunity to tackle the former detractors of his old friend.
“He is someone who was unfairly mocked by all this small journalistic class who today obviously will erect Arcs de Triomphe for him but it was ugly the way they spoke of the way he himself felt France , felt the French”, underlined not without bitterness Patrick Poivre d’Arvor. The message got through.
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