Since the death of Jean-Pierre Pernaut on March 2, tributes from his colleagues have rained down in the media. The legendary journalist of 13 hours of TF1 died of cancer at the age of 71. In an interview given to Parisian published on March 3, Dominique Lagrou-Sempère made a point of mentioning his late colleague with whom the journalist has come a long way. “I feel rich to have shared the daily professional life of a man like Jean-Pierre. It is a great chance, a great joy. He embodies what I want to be in my job. A journalist is not a giver of lessons, is not someone who knows and who teaches others. He is a passer of words, the one who collects the word and who gives it to those who cannot have it. That’s what my husband Claude did too“, she confided to our colleagues.
Indeed, a sad parallel in life, Dominique Lagrou-Sempère also lost her husband Claude Sempère to cancer. “Jean-Pierre recovered at that time, before my husband died. It’s a strange echo. He was my strength at work because I didn’t stop working. He never saw me as the wife of a patient, fragile and diminished. It gave me a lot of courage. Jean-Pierre was a work accomplice, a friend, like those we love“, told the journalist of 13 hours of TF1.
Dominique Lagrou-Sempère evokes the reputation of Jean-Pierre Pernaut
This Friday, March 25, 2022, our colleagues from Release devote a portrait to Dominique Lagrou-Sempère. The opportunity to learn that the journalist could have taken over Jean-Pierre Pernaut’s chair after his departure. “Thierry Thuillier, TF1 news boss, had Marie-Sophie Lacarrau in mind. Especially since it is a war prize. Lacarrau piloted the 13 hours of France 2 which did not go so badly. Dominique Lagrou was not known enough, not identified enough.“, we learn in the columns of the daily newspaper.
As for the popularity and reputation of “local journalist” his “mentor”, Dominique Lagrou-Sempère says that the husband of Nathalie Marquay preferred to have fun: “It had become so excessive that he was smiling.“
Thibaud Cruz