On Wednesday March 9, 2022, a week after the death of Jean-Pierre Pernaut, his relatives gathered for his funeral at the Sainte-Clotilde basilica, in the 7th arrondissement of Paris around his wife, Nathalie Marquay, their two children Lou and Tom, as well as his ex-wife Dominique Bonnet accompanied by Julia and Olivier, whom she had with the star of 1 p.m. Among the journalists and TV hosts present that day, one name was missing, and it was Jacques Legros.
“Joining the concert of mourners in dark glasses, it’s not my thing“
Joker of Jean-Pierre Pernaut for 24 years, he had chosen to ensure the “13 Hours” on the front page, his tribute to him paid to JPP. This October 6, the one who has just released a book called “Behind the screen, 40 years at the heart of the media” confessed that he did not have only noble reasons to prefer the TF1 studio that day. To the director of information, Thierry Thuillierwho gave him the choice, he replied: “I am Jean-Pierre’s joker, my place is here in the newspaper”. And add in the show Buzz TV from Le Figaro: “Joining the concert of mourners in dark glasses is not my thing. And out of respect for Jean-Pierre, I did my job as joker and we only talked about him for this newspaper clenching his fists with emotion“.
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An acid remark which denotes with what he had said in the past. Last March, it was a completely different, more consensual version that he revealed to our colleagues from Entertainment TV. He had indeed assured : “Thierry Thuillier [le directeur de l’information, NDLR] asked me what I wanted to do. I didn’t think long.” And to add to our colleagues: “I felt that as Jean-Pierre’s official joker for 25 years, my duty was to do the diary, as I had to do when Jean-Pierre was not around. I was more useful at this place than at the Sainte-Clotilde church”.
“I’m a man, I can’t cheat, I have my emotions“
And that day, he was moved: “I was told that I had a dirty head, that I seemed very tense. It’s true that we were all exhausted because we were destroyed. Honestly, I made the journal with closed fists. The hardest part was the day of the funeral. Because there was an infinite sadness. It was hard, it was hard… I’m a man, I can’t cheat, I have my emotions. But we still had to hold the boat. It was all the complexity of this JT“. Did he lie about his true feelings?
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