Pierre Sled is known for his profession as a journalist specializing in sports, a television executive and for having two children, Nicolas (born in 1993) and Valentine (born in 1995) with television star Sophie Davant, from whom he is married. separated in 2012. But that’s not all, the site of Gala recalls that this 63-year-old cathodic figure is also known for his links with a former President of the Republic: Nicolas Sarkozy.
Back to the early 2000s. The president of France Télévisions at the time, Rémy Pflimlin, chose as program advisor to the director of France 3, François Guilbeau, in 2010. A controversial decision, underlines Release, due to the closeness between Pierre Sled and the French leader at the time. However, the journalist does not want this Sarkozyist label, while not denying his relationship with the Head of State. On Renaud Revel’s ImmédiaS blog, he asks that we “stop fantasizing about I don’t know what instructions from above“. He will also specify beforehand: “Nicholas Sarkozy? I have only seen him once in two years, during the presentation of the Hadopi law at the Elysée: what a deal! (…) It is not because you exchange from time to time with the President of the Republic that you are therefore one of his intimates and a fortiori a boosted.“
Pierre Sled left the channel in April 2012, after airing programs like the daily Noon in France or the story show The shadow of a doubt. In 2013, the journalist relaunched Kid Productions, a consulting and audiovisual production company. It was then that his private life took a big turn with his meeting with his future wife Barbara Ricevuto. This Italian specialized in consulting and communication officiated then as director of the company’s projects. They will marry in 2018. Since 2017, the multilingual journalist has also been a columnist on the Italian radio station Radio Centro Suono in Rome and on the Canale 21 television channel. During the same year, he covered the French presidential election on Rai News.