Every morning, the faithful of France 2 wake up with the smiles of Thomas Sotto and Julia Vignali in “Télématin”. After having provided entertainment for the evenings on RTL, the joker of Laurent Delahousse on the 8 p.m. news has indeed decided to get up at dawn and change gear. But this Wednesday, November 30, the journalist was not present alongside the companion of Kad Merad. In question ? “A trip that forced him to give up his morning seat to his colleague Jean-Baptiste Marteau“, indicate our colleagues from Télé Loisirs. According to their information, Thomas Sotto is currently across the Atlantic to carry out the interview with the American Secretary of State Antony Blinken. An absence extends until Thursday, December 1, but the host will be from return Monday, December 5 to find the whole team of Télématin.
In his absence, it is therefore Jean-Baptiste Marteau who takes over the interim. The Parisian has for several years been Thomas Sotto’s luxury joker in the morning television broadcast of France 2 and the 1 p.m. and 8 p.m. editions. Very exposed, he said, in a podcast broadcast on France Info, that this media coverage was sometimes complicated to live with, he who publicly assumes his homosexuality.
“It’s often threats on social networks mainly. When it’s just little threats in the air, we tend to let go because unfortunately threats in France, still in 2022, because we’re homosexual or because we have an inconvenient difference, well, there you go we’re a little used to it, we’ve shielded ourselves“, explains the journalist. “But there are some where I decided not to let it pass and also to talk about it“, he said. Before specifying: “They are either insults, or sometimes they are much more serious threats and these are the ones that I do not let pass and where I will file a complaint. You are told that we are going to physically attack you or your family. Like written threats by mail that I was able to receive at France Télévisions which threatened my daughter to the point of saying ‘We know where she goes to school’, extremely serious and criminally reprehensible things. Good bah there I decided not to let pass and in addition to doing it surrounded by the legal department of France Télévisions.“
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