“Tom, Lou, Olivier and Julien’s father died of lung cancer“Wednesday afternoon, announced his wife Nathalie Marquay-Pernaut, a few minutes before the news was notified on TF1.
For 33 years, Jean-Pierre Pernaut accompanied the French during their lunch break with a focus on regional and know-how news. On December 18, 2020, then 70 years old, He presented his last television news on December 18.
But beware, the journalist still had many projects to defend France from the regions and in particular the publication ofa paper magazine called “At the heart of the regions” that he came to present to us in “Accès Direct” last November
His career, today’s society, the death of his mother, his regrets… A little over a month ago, Jean-Pierre Pernaut was with us to engage, with honesty and simplicity, in microphone by Déborah Grunwald.
A program in which he necessarily returned to his native region, Picardy (And be careful, don’t talk about Hauts-de-France), to which he remained very attached.