His hello, at 1 p.m., had become essential: Jean-Pierre Pernaut died on Wednesday March 2. The journalist, at the head of the midday newspaper from 1988 to 2020, had been on TF1 since 1975 and had become a flagship television personality. His farewell to the antenna, in December 2020, had also been a rather moving moment.
And for good reason, he had not done them alone: his two youngest children, Lou and Tom (19 and 18 years old) had come to support him with their mother, Nathalie Marquay-Pernaut. And that’s not all: the trio was accompanied by little Leo, the journalist’s grandson. The little boy, with his red sweater, had completely cracked the viewers, moved by this family picture.
“Leo has already come on set, Lou and Tom too“, confided the journalist, moved that his wife is coming for the first time. Unimpressed, the rather discreet boy is the son of Olivier Pernaut, an engineer born in 1981 from the journalist’s first marriage, just like his wife. sister Julia, gynecologist and born three years earlier, and he was not the only grandson of the historic presenter of the JT.
Indeed, Julia is the mother of two children, Iris and Eléa, who have also enlarged the family but who remain very discreet with the notoriety of their grandfather. Unlike the youngest children of Jean-Pierre Pernaut, very present on social networks. Lou, in particular, has 125,000 followers on Instagram and 898,000 on TikTok, where she likes to feature her family. This is where she broke the silence after her dad died.
It was on this network that she reacted to messages of support after the death of her famous father. The girl published a few words. “Thank you all for your love. We’re staying with family for now. Enjoy your loved ones and tell them you love them“, she wrote, with the music of Johnny Hallyday in the background.
Her little brother Tom, who is a year younger than her, is also a social media star. Less active than his eldest, he still has more than 300,000 subscribers on Tik Tok and nearly 90,000 on Instagram. He hasn’t reacted yet.