At the end of September, Jacques Legros created shock waves with the publication of his new book entitled Behind the screen: 40 years at the heart of the media. This is his very personal assessment of his career on the air, and more particularly as joker of the late Jean-Pierre Pernaut. Through its pages, Jacques Legros precisely evokes their relationship, which has experienced some turbulence.
It is to defend his book that the 71-year-old journalist granted an interview to our colleagues from Closerpublished this Friday, October 21, 2022. The opportunity for him to mention his happy family life, in the company of his wife Valerie, to whom he has been married for fifteen years. “We had already been living together for five years when we got married.“, he clarified.
When saying “yes”, Jacques Legros and his precious Valérie must have asked themselves the question of location. And, even though they are both working there, it is far from Paris that the ceremony took place almost without any hesitation. “Getting married in Paris had no charm“, he confided. Instead, the couple chose to unite in a much more symbolic place. “do it in the village of Pompignac (Commune du Sud-Ouest, editor’s note) where we lived made more sense!“, he decreed.
A failed first meeting with his wife Valérie
During this interview, Jacques Legros also took the opportunity to say more about his half who also has a busy agenda with his work. “She is a veterinary gastroenterologistresponsible for the consultation at the Alfort school, but also a doctor of medicine, researcher at the Imagine Institute of the Necker hospital“, he listed not without pride. It was their love for animals that brought them together several years ago. But beware, we are far from a fairy tale!
Indeed, when they met for the first time, Valérie’s doberman had tried to eat Jacques Legros’ cavalier king charles! “What is very funny is that she had never seen me on TV and that she fell on my news by chance a few days later. Theyyou areHe said, ‘Damn, it’s the neighbor I started talking to a few days ago. It will never work because he’s someone from TV, he’s bound to be unbearable!‘”, he reported to the magazine TV Major Channels in 2020. Eventually, their story will have worked out. The lovers even welcomed a 17-year-old son together named Gabriel.