It is upset that the personalities of the PAF made the trip to the Basilica of Sainte-Clotilde in the 7th arrondissement of Paris on March 9 to say goodbye to Jean-Pierre Pernaut one last time. That day, the journalist’s funeral took place in the presence of course of his family, namely his wife Nathalie Marquay and their two children Lou (20 years old) and Tom (19 years old) but also his ex-wife Dominique Bonnet, and their two eldest, Olivier and Julia. The popular TF1 figure who hosted the 1 p.m. newspaper for more than 30 years unfortunately left a big void a week earlier, dying of complications in the heart. A serious situation which was one of the consequences of his lung cancer. It was through radiotherapy that Jean-Pierre Pernaut tried to treat himself.
Denis Brogniart has in spite of himself witnessed the poor form of his colleague on the front page, struck by what he considers to be “the plague of life, a worldwide plague“who “concerns us all“, as he reveals in an interview for Feminine. He now has fond memories of the presenter who left at the age of 71: “Jean-Pierre is one of my Pygmalions, he’s one of the people who gave me a lot of advice in this job, he’s unquestionably the presenter for whom I have the most admiration, because he works without a teleprompter, because that he created his own newspaper, because he was going to decide when he was going to leave. It’s a lot of things that few people have done before him.“
The presenter of Koh Lanta nevertheless regrets that Jean-Pierre Pernaut did not manage to get rid of his addiction to cigarettes years earlier. “Unfortunately, he hadn’t put all the chances on his side. But he knew it, that’s what’s terrible“, he laments.
Denis Brogniart can only fight more against tobacco. An even more personal fight when it comes to his children, the twins Lili and Violette (born in 2005) and Blanche (born in 2006) born of his love with his wife Hortense as well as Dimitri (born in 2000 from a former union). “That’s why I say to young people today, before it’s impossible to stop, avoid starting. But it is a sign of independence, of integration into a group. My daughters don’t smoke, maybe I educated them better than my son. And then it’s nonsense to say that if you stop, after 5 years everything disappears. The body remembers“, he recalled.