He had undoubtedly made his place in the French household. Journalist on the TF1 group since 1975, Jean-Pierre Pernaut unfortunately left us on March 2, 2023 as a result of lung cancer. A disappearance that shocked the French. Thus, many personalities wanted to pay tribute to the man who was for a long time the star of the 1 p.m. news on the first channel.
As proof, a year and a half after the death of Jean-Pierre Pernaut, this Wednesday September 13, 2023, Philippe Risoli wanted to return to the tragic death of the journalist at the age of 78… But against all expectations, theThe radio host insisted on the poor lifestyle of Nathalie Marquay’s late husband.
“He played stupid, as he said,” declared the former presenter of the Right price during an interview given to Paris here.
And to add: “He’s a man that I loved very much because he was true. We spent a lot of time when I shared with his wife the poster for ‘Piège à Matignon’, the play he had written […] I have retained a lot of tenderness for Nathalie, even if I don’t always agree on everything with her.”he added.
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2 packets per day for 50 years
As a reminder, in the documentary Jean-Pierre Pernaut, life after broadcast in December 2021, Tom and Lou’s father himself declared: “I was stupid to continue smoking.”And for good reason, for him, there is no doubt, smoking was the main cause of these tumors: “We always have the impression that it can only happen to other people, but when I was told that I had lung cancer, I said to myself that finally […] everyone who told me to quit smoking was right. I should have stopped sooner”, he declared, admitting in passing to having smoked two packs a day for 50 years.
An addiction that he managed to combat as soon as his diagnosis was announced: “I was really scared. I stopped on June 17, without help and without problem, even though I didn’t think it was possible”he confided at the time.
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