We don’t see his face so much on television anymore. It’s very simple, Mélissa Theuriau now prefers to stay behind the cameras. His experience on the other side has not always been very rosy. Figurehead of LCI from 2003 to 2006, the presenter had made such a strong impression on her bosses, in particular with Thierry Gilardi, that she had been offered to become Claire Chazal’s joker for the 8 p.m. news on TF1. An honor, certainly, but arrived a little too soon.
My badge was deactivated overnight
“If you are locked in a 20 hours at 28, it’s over, she testifies in the pages of the weekend supplement of the newspaper The Parisian. It happened too quickly and then, it’s not at all what I wanted to do.” Attaching herself firmly to her professional convictions, the wife of Jamel Debbouze had preferred to say “no” even if it means angering the leaders of the TF1 group. Very quickly, Mélissa Theuriau had been ousted from LCI… without much ceremony. “My badge was deactivated overnight, she simply recalls. It was very violent.”
I won’t go back
This misadventure is far behind her. Mélissa Theuriau quickly bounced back by replacing Anne-Sophie Lapix at the presentation of the M6 reportage magazine, a few months later, and is now passionate about documentaries – in particular Gaza youth under surveillance, Here everything is lawnot. She doesn’t intend to change her mind. “I won’t go backshe said recently to Entertainment TV. More than ten years ago, I wanted to highlight subjects that I found important to defend, to enlighten. I wanted to open this window of freedom. I do not get enough…“