Three years after having conquered his prostate cancer, Jean-Pierre Pernaut announces bad news. The former star presenter of the 1 p.m. television news on TF1 suffers from lung cancer. It is Tuesday, November 22, 2021, after months of secrecy, that he confided for the very first time about his state of health via a video posted on Twitter. For his part, his wife Nathalie Marquay also spoke on the set of Do not touch My TV (C8). Since the beginning of this battle, she has been of unfailing support … It is moreover she who took care to hide the disease from the general public, as the drafting of the Parisian.
This lung cancer, Jean-Pierre Pernaut will talk more about Thursday, December 9 on C8, in Life after, long documentary dedicated to him and that our colleagues were able to preview. They then reveal that it all started in April, when Jean-Pierre Pernaut had a CT scan because of a “bronchitis that does not pass“. Various examinations finally allow the diagnosis: cancer of the right lung. Everything is linked and Jean-Pierre Pernaut suffered an operation on July 5, 2021 with the utmost discretion. This is where Nathalie Marquay plays an important role: she shares on social networks, especially in story, vacation photos to avoid any doubt and “don’t be bothered by the paparazzi“.
On June 30, five days before the operation, on Jean-Pierre Pernaut’s Instagram account appeared a nice holiday photo. Above, a blue sky, the roof of a house and in the foreground a superb bougainvillea, a tree with pink flowers often seen on facades in Spain, Portugal and on the French Riviera. A stroke of Nathalie Marquay-Pernaut certainly …