His family announced it to AFP in a press release, Jean-Pierre Pernaut gave his last breath this Wednesday, March 2, 2022 when he had been in a coma for a few days. Face of TF1, and the regions of France since his debut on the 1 p.m. news in 1988, the journalist was finally the father, the brother, the friend of all French people. It is for this reason that quickly, hundreds of tributes were sent to him on the Web, in the media, but also at home, through sending flowers and love letters.
Jacques Legros, Marie-Sophie Lacarrau, Anne-Claire Coudray, David Pujadas… his colleagues from the first channel obviously immediately paid tribute to him publicly. But this is also the case for other personalities, despite the competition between audiences. Cyril Hanouna, or even Michel Drucker therefore took the floor. Guest on France Bleu, the latter, who like Jean-Pierre Pernaut will have broken records on the air, 33 years at the head of the JT “It’s not just a record in France, it’s a record all over the world.“, is touched, “I think of his family and friends and he had a lot of them. He has 60 million French people as friends“.
But Michel Drucker prefers to remember what made him such a talented presenter: “I think of Jean-Pierre, we met from time to time and each time, he said to me: ‘Welcome to the club of non-prompters.’ We belong to this generation that has never used this prosthesis. It’s the Léon Zitrone school, the school of memory”.
For the host of Vivement dimanche, the newspaper that Jean-Pierre Pernaut built and set up, putting political institutions and information only in Paris on the doorstep, did not really please the “Parisian sores”: “Me too, at lunchtime, I would come home and watch Pernaut, which was not the case for all the Parisian sores who discovered him much later when France had known him for a long time. “. A small tackle that will not go unnoticed.
See also: