Each passing day is a victory for this courageous Aveyronnaise. In January 2021, taking the place of the unbeatable Jean-Pierre Pernaut, struck down by illness, she suspected that the task would be very difficult and that no gift would be given to him. Unsurprisingly, from his first performances during the 1 p.m. TF1, Marie-Sophie suffered from the comparison with her glorious elder, and millions of JPP fans crushed her on social networks, without giving her time to impose her own style. And as that was not enough for her misfortune, even before passing the milestone of a year in her new and prestigious functions, in December 2021, the 46-year-old presenter had to leave the sets, suffering from amoebic keratitis, ocular pathology caused by his contact lenses. Jacques Legros and Julien Arnaud took over the interim until her return on May 16, 2022. Far from admitting defeat, Marie-Sophie saw her return at the end of August as an opportunity for a rebirth, a chance to prove that she wasn’t a casting mistake.
Illness had already sidelined him for 6 months
Unfortunately for her, the journalist quickly had to become disillusioned! Worse still, today she is receiving disturbing threats on TF1. What happened to come to such extremes? Who made these threats? Well, it was his own bosses who made it clear that his position was under threat due to declining ratings. This may seem cruel, because by bringing together 4.3 million viewers, or 40.1% of the entire public, his performance seems more than acceptable, and the front page remains clearly in the lead. Only here, compared to its score of Thursday, August 21, it lost 0.3 points of audience. To make matters worse, the 12.45 of M6hosted by Kareen Guiock captured the attention of 27.5% of women under 50, the core target of the bosses of TF1, and Julian Bugier’s newscast on France 2 gained 1.1 points. These signals are enough to shake on its foundations the throne of Marie-Sophie, whose place everyone wants to take…
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