A rather daring joke that he immediately regretted. While he was a guest on the show Media Culture (Europe 1) this Friday February 16, 2024, William Leymergie looked back on the significant events of his career on the small screen.
And if Sophie Davant’s companion obviously mentioned Telematin where he officiated for many years, the latter went back even further.
In fact, the host of William at noon remembered the three short years spent at the head of the 1 p.m. news on Antenne 2 from 1986 to 1989 The reason? The latter wanted to explain why he did not last long on the channel despite the audiences he had.
“You are toast”
“I was fired because I displeased a channel president…”, he revealed. More transparent than ever, William Leymergie then explained that a slightly daring joke had led him towards the exit…”At the time, when channel presidents were appointed, they came to greet viewers in the Newspapers. It fell on me! I did not know him. He sat across from me, [je luis ai posé des questions], at the end he gets up and goes in front of a camera! And there, the mistake on my part, I say on the air: ‘And yes, it’s a job’ It lasts two seconds, but at the moment when I say that, I tell myself that I would have done better to shut it up”, he declared on the airwaves of Europe 1.
And to conclude: “He comes back five minutes later, after we have broadcast one or two reports, and he gestures to me with his hand, as if to say: ‘You’re toast.’ And he fired me three months later.”