The news is difficult to digest for all of France. It is even more painful, of course, for all those close to Jean-Pierre Pernaut. The journalist, who was part of the family of all citizens of our country, died on Wednesday March 2, 2022 at the age of 71. “Tom, Lou, Olivier and Julia’s father died of lung cancer“, soberly announced his entourage to AFP.
Behind Jean-Pierre Pernaut, there are his four children of course, but also his wife. With Nathalie Marquay, the presenter of the Journal de 13h formed an emblematic couple since the year 2001. The lovebirds had crossed paths, for the first time, during the coronation of Miss France 2002 in Mulhouse, won by Sylvie Tellier. Now president of the committee, she says, in the program 50′ Inside, to have witnessed an evidence between the two lovers.
It felt like chemistry, something that happened
“I remember very well seeing them in the room, both busy talkingtells Sylvie Tellier to the cameras of TF1. In fact they were both shining. It felt like chemistry, something that had happened. I remember I had seen them. I said to myself: ‘Hey, they’re not very concentrated this evening anyway’. And I remember that when I returned my title of Miss France the following year, Nathalie was going to welcome a happy event.“
Nathalie Marquay and Jean-Pierre Pernaut got married in 2007 at the town hall of the 4th arrondissement of Paris. They had two children together, Lou and Tom – the journalist also had Olivier and Julia with his previous wife, Dominique Bonnet. “He didn’t want to retireregrets today his dear and tender. But I was like, ‘I want you to take advantage of us. The children are grown up, I want us both to travel too, no need to wait for the school holidays.’ Well, we were eager to be together, to be an old couple, to be like everyone else. But Jean-Pierre is not like everyone else…“