If we know his relationship with the journalist Apolline de Malherbe, who resumed her morning show on BFMTV and RMC, we knew less what Jean-Jacques Bourdin thought of investigative journalists. This October 25, 2023, while he was the guest of Buzz TV on TV Magthe 74-year-old journalist, now working on South Radiowas questioned about public service professionals.
“I don’t really like it when we go searching.”
Married to Anne Nivat, a war reporter, he said: “from the moment we are going to investigate, inevitably we are going to be criticized“. Concerning the journalists from Cash Investigation and Complément d’investigation, he declared: “But I think they do a great job. I say it. Élise Lucet I like a little less but I really like Tristan Waleckx. I find that ‘Complementary investigation’ is very, very well done.”
Why this disenchantment with Élise Lucet? Jean-Jacques Bourdin admitted: “First of all, I watch very little television, and then I don’t really like people to go searching, I don’t know how to explain that to you, in a slightly insidious way. I like things to be clear. I think sometimes they advance with masked faces“.
“That she is pugnacious is very good and she is right”
Nothing to do with the somewhat crude style of the journalist, which Jean-Jacques Bourdin himself also has when he interviews personalities. Regarding this characteristic, he assured: “That she is pugnacious is very good and she is right. But I think Tristan Waleckx’s show is better…” And to conclude, more consensual: “finally I found it and I’m no longer interested in it”.
“I really like @tristanwaleckxa little less @EliseLucet“, entrusts @JJBourdin_off on the set of #BuzzTVpic.twitter.com/KZIJUvbDLr
— TV Magazine (@TVMAG) October 25, 2023
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