(Gatineau) Radio host Michel Lapointe died on Thursday. He was at the helm of the homecoming show at 104.7 Outaouais.
Michel Lapointe had worked for a long time in the radio community in the Outaouais. He was also at CKTF, where he was a sports journalist.
Messages of sympathy multiplied on social networks, Friday, at the announcement of his sudden death.
According to some accounts on social media, he died of a heart attack while on vacation, when he was 62 years old.
Karl Bélanger ensures his replacement at the helm of his show, Outaouais Now, since December 15. He wrote on Twitter that the news was “hard to believe”.
“Tonight I mourn the departure of a colleague and a friend. Memories keep racing through my head of our nights out at the Senators, on the road in New Jersey and Tampa Bay, our mornings at CKTF, our partridge hunting outing where I saw you smile like never before.” writes for his part the host at 104.7 Michel Langevin on Facebook.
Valérie Clairoux, who also works at 104.7, pointed out that “the Outaouais is in shock tonight”.
Several elected officials from Outaouais reacted to his disappearance on Twitter. Chapleau MNA Mathieu Lévesque shared that the Outaouais was losing “one of its great radio men”.
“On the air or in person, Michel Lapointe was a likeable and endearing man,” wrote Pontiac MP André Fortin.