On the Web, he is presented as a journalist and activist for French animal welfare and climate justice. Hugo Clément is in short very involved in certain causes, in particular environmental ones. Through his program called On the front and broadcast on France 5, it denounces certain practices. On September 25, 2022, his show was titled Red alert on wine. The opportunity for the lover of Alexandra Rosenfeld to discuss the consequences of climate change on wine and viticulture. And that earned him to be the target of attacks from a famous comedian!
In his column published weekly in the Sunday Newspaper, Gaspard Proust attacks the journalist. “In the windshield would have been more suitable“, he thus launched. And to attack directly the young dad of little Jim (2 and a half years old), fruit of his love with the former Miss France: “The war eco-reporter is called Hugo Clément. We already know that we are going to get hairy.“Gaspard Proust even called Hugo Clément a”deceptively ingenuous flautist of the eco-citizen tintamarre“, “snowflake king“, “Elise Lucet in skinny jeans“, “Hemingway from the foam trenches“, “Tintin with soy” or “eco-friendly frisbee thrower“.
Hugo Clément “king of snowflakes”, he responds to Gaspard Proust
“For Hugo, making wine is first and foremost about ‘taming nature’, so it’s violence. One more little effort, and he will tell us about vegetal bullfighting. We thought that the moving moment of the documentary would consist of having our D-Days porpoise in a bolster taste an old vintage. Missed, because Hugo doesn’t drink wine… Yes, you read that right“, continues the one who had already crushed the former couple formed by François Hollande and Valérie Trieweiler. “But let’s be merciful, the poor guy still took a trip to Napa Valley!“, he concluded.
Tackles galore which caused a stir in the press, but not with Hugo Clément. Indeed, the former journalist of Daily (TMC) took to its Instagram account on Monday September 26, 2022, in order to respond. “Many of you send me Gaspard Proust’s chronicle about me. Being very attached to the right to satire, I have no problem being the target. If you don’t want to be laughed at by comedians, you shouldn’t expose yourself publicly. That’s the game ! Good evening friends“, he writes, quite simply. No big clash in sight, phew!