In her office, a small blackboard on which is written "When I grow up, I'll go to Aveyron!"
», Reminds him of the essential.
“Marie Sophie Lacarrau is an earthling.
It keeps its relationship to its region, to its roots, ”assures an audiovisual professional who is familiar with the quadra responsible for succeeding Jean-Pierre Pernaut at the 13 Hours of TF1 from January 4.
A woman and a child from the regions ... By choosing this Aveyronnaise, born in Villefranche-de-Rouergue and who will celebrate her 45th birthday on September 20, the first channel is making a small revolution while ensuring continuity.
“It has often been said that there is a certain affinity between the regional viewers of France 3 and those of the 13 Hours of TF1.
Marie-Sophie will rediscover this proximity and her DNA ”, remarks Jérôme Cathala, current mediator of France Televisions and former regional director of France 3 Midi-Pyrénées (now France 3 Occitanie) who had spotted the journalist in Toulouse.
[OFFICIAL] @MSLacarrau joins @ TF1 at the 1pm newscast presentation from January 2021. Welcome Marie-Sophie!
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- Groupe TF1 (@ GroupeTF1) September 17, 2020
“She was a reporter at the time and I offered to present the newspapers.
She already had a great presence on the air, ”he recalls.
A graduate in modern letters, the young woman had multiplied her experiences in the written press before turning to LCI television, M6, Télé Grand Tourisme, Eurosport, La Chaîne Météo at France 3 in 2000.
"She keeps a distance from her profession, from notoriety"
Happy omen, she presents her first newscast at France 3 Midi-Pyrénées during the Christmas 2005 celebrations!
Five years later, she climbs national: joker of Catherine Matausch at the weekend news on the Three in summer 2010, then of Carole Gaessler at 19-20.
She moved to La Deux in 2014 to become Elise Lucet's understudy at the 13 Hours before the big jump in 2016 where she became the holder of the mid-day edition.
“She was reluctant to leave Toulouse, her home, to come and settle in Paris.
At the time, she lived in the countryside and made an hour's drive to reach the offices of France 3 in Toulouse, remembers a relative.
When she found an apartment in the capital, she told me that she did not understand the codes of the inhabitants of the 16th century!
And as soon as she had finished her week at 13 Hours, she left for her region.
"
An old building to be restored in a village near Revel (Haute-Garonne) - “With superb panoramas over the Pyrenees, magnificent fields of sunflowers,” she recently said - has become her refuge.
Far from the glitter.
"She keeps a distance from the job, to notoriety," swears an acquaintance.
“It has remained intact and has not changed.
She always says hello in the corridors, ”adds a journalist from France 3 where some had nicknamed her Belle des champs when she arrived at the Paris headquarters.
"She looks like us"
A beauty who has kept her style under her wavy hair and can go home on a scooter.
Simple but professional, able to link four direct to the four corners of France in one day for a program on heritage, to address the economy of the territories in the magazine "In situ" or to wet the shirt during special editions July 14, for Notre-Dame de Paris or a Christmas with the soldiers.
“Everyone appreciates it at France Télévisions, which is very rare, enthuses another journalist from the editorial staff.
She's anything but a jug.
"" She is a hard worker: everything that is entrusted to her is ready to the millimeter when she takes the antenna ", sums up a person in charge of France Televisions also insisting on" her humility ".
A subject that she does not understand well?
"She's going to make inquiries, question.
She is one of those journalists who seek advice and she has a sense of understanding by viewers, ”applauds Jérôme Cathala when others greet“ his listening ”and“ the good comrade ”.
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“She is very rigorous.
And, I was immediately seduced by its simplicity and softness.
This is important for a presenter who announces bad news.
She has a very maternal side too ", notes Samuel Etienne, former presenter of 12-13 on France 3." A reassuring side and she looks like us, adds a frame of the public group.
She is a classy, chic and popular journalist.
"
"Entertainment is very compatible with news"
Marie Sophie Lacarrau especially brings the sun wherever she goes and not just by singing her accent.
She smiles all the time and laughs a lot.
That it deviates from the rigor of the info to touch on entertainment could have surprised.
"It was about getting out of the shackles of the newscast that I adore and being myself", she confided to us last December when launching "Prodiges", this competition intended for young classical talents.
“Entertainment is fun and very compatible with news.
These are, for me, enchanted parentheses, defended this mother of two boys aged 11 and 13, married to Pierre Bascoul, boss of a production company.
I feel like I'm on my own two legs with these two caps!
"
Will she also be able to play with all her palette on TF1?
"It's not easy to arrive after Jean-Pierre Pernaut, one of the last dinosaurs," says Samuel Etienne.
But she will not replace him, she will overtake him!
"