“I brought you gifts!
"Just out of the plateau of his 13 Hours, Jean-Pierre Pernaut welcomed our readers Wednesday at the headquarters of TF1 in Boulogne-Billancourt (Hauts-de-Seine) by offering them his" Almanac des regions 2021 ".
True to himself, the 70-year-old presenter got to know everyone.
" Where are you from?
I am also in the Yvelines and it is not bad there.
"" Are you retired?
You will tell me how it goes, I am not there yet ”, he joked before questioning Gaylor professor of EPS on the notation in class of terminal.
“It seems it's complicated.
My son is passing the baccalaureate, that interests me.
"
Listening, the star journalist of the mid-day of the front page was affable, despite the fatigue and the tension of the last days before leaving "his baby" this Friday, the 1 pm newspaper that he has piloted for 33 years.
HIS DEPARTURE AT 1 PM.
"Since my cancer, I have had little strokes of fatigue"
/ LP / Olivier Corsan
GAYLORD GUENEC.
When did you decide to leave the 13 Hours?
Jean-Pierre Pernaut.
I decided that with my wife during the first confinement.
I was blocked at home a month longer than you, because the TF1 occupational doctor forbade me to come back on May 11 because I was 70 years old.
When people keep telling you that you are old, you start to feel old.
Wasn't it time for a change of pace?
Getting up at 6 o'clock every morning was no longer reasonable… So I had to let go of this diary, which has been my baby for 33 years.
It is not easy.
In the history of the audiovisual industry, it has never happened that a presenter stops on his own.
Usually, you get fired by your boss.
TF1 has been my family for 45 years.
And I want her to be well.
I decided to stop now and ensure a nice transition with my replacement
(Editor's note: Marie-Sophie Lacarrau)
CAROLINE ROUVROY.
Did your cancer influence this decision?
Yes, two years ago I had prostate cancer.
I was very well looked after, it's over.
I was also put in stents.
Like many people, I smoke so my arteries get blocked.
But all this is exhausting.
Since my cancer, I have small bouts of fatigue in the afternoon.
To present a newspaper, you have to be 100% in shape.
I feel like I'm down to 95%.
You might as well not take any risks.
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AURÉLIA BOUA.
What state of mind are you in when you say goodbye?
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I am torn between the pride of having a newspaper that has so many audiences.
And a dreadful scare from the last day.
There will be a special newspaper, my team has prepared surprises for me.
Will I be overcome with emotion or not?
I'm not retiring, but it's always very emotional to leave your job and a team we've worked with for so long.
AURÉLIA BOUA.
During these 45 years spent at TF1, have you ever been approached by other channels?
When they were created, Canal + and la Cinq asked me to come and do the news.
We talked, but I didn't go.
Great good took me!
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GAYLORD GUENEC.
Introduce us to your replacement?
Marie-Sophie Lacarrau was born in Villefranche-de-Rouergue, in Aveyron.
She has a little accent from there!
She presented the newspaper of France 2 for 4 years.
So she knows the job perfectly.
It is sparkling and we have the same state of mind when it comes to the defense of our regions.
Is this the right choice?
You will tell me that on January 4th!
His goal is to continue everything as before.
She gets on a train at full speed, it's up to her to put on the coal!
CAROLINE ROUVROY.
They chose a woman to avoid comparisons?
I think yes !
With a man obviously we would have compared more.
There, we already know that she has more hair than me!
It will be easier for her.
Is it hard to take over from JPP?
I am not worried, because the newspaper is so solid, that in order not to make it work you have to really want it.
When I go on vacation, there is no change either in substance or in audiences.
Like what the presenter is not so important!
GAYLORD GUENEC.
What advice did you give him?
The only advice I gave him was to meet the people who make the newspaper.
She therefore toured the offices in the regions, which provide 80% of the news, and saw the teams in Paris!
GUILLAUME CHERRE.
Are you going to watch his newscast?
I think yes, why don't I watch?
HIS CAREER.
"When I started, the television only spoke of Paris"
/ LP / Olivier Corsan
GUILLAUME CHERRE.
What is your most memorable memory of JT's 33 years?
It's complicated to answer you ... In a third of a century, so much has happened!
The fall of the Berlin Wall, the attacks of September 11, "Charlie Hebdo" that we learn a few minutes before the air ... Or the death of Johnny Hallyday whom I adored.
I have known 24 governments and three popes, you know!
(laughs)
How is a 13 Hours prepared?
I get up at 6 am and have my breakfast in front of LCI.
When the A13 is blocked, I take 45 minutes to reach the office during which I switch between RTL and the other radios.
I soak up the news and the zeitgeist.
I arrive at the office at 7:30 am and read AFP and the press.
Then, I call the TF1 correspondents in the regions to find out what is happening at home.
An event like the Festival of Lights in Lyon is more interesting than many press conferences by such and such a minister.
At 8 o'clock in the morning, we choose the fifteen news items that will be the subject of a report.
The journalists go on filming.
At 9 am, after the editorial conference, we prepare with the 6 people around me, the order of the topics.
At 11 am, I start writing and viewing the reports that arrive.
At 1 pm, when we get on the air, the job is actually finished.
The presentation of the news is of no interest in itself.
The most exciting thing is really building the journal.
And after lunch, we start thinking about the next day's newspaper again.
I leave the office around 7 p.m.
CLAUDE JARASSON.
You often give your opinion.
Is this really the role of a journalist?
I react as if I were at home!
These are not "opinions", but journalistic or common sense remarks.
The day after the Music Festival, we ended by showing images of sheep in transhumance.
And I said what all the viewers thought: it was the same crowd as the people who were celebrating music the day before in the streets without masks!
It was fun.
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CAROLINE ROUVROY.
Have you been pressured?
In 33 years, no one has allowed themselves to tell me anything.
Yet there must be some malcontents ... If they did, I would send them out for a walk.
The day there is pressure, the news will be dead.
CLAUDE JARASSON.
How to ensure the objectivity of micro-sidewalks where people are chosen by chance?
I prefer to call them “company surveys”.
It suffices for the journalist to tell honestly whether the people he meets at any given moment agree or not.
This is obviously not the absolute truth about the whole of France.
This is how we saw the crisis of the yellow vests happen.
We felt that the 80 km / h limitation did not go away.
It was seen as an insult to Parisians.
Encouraging public transport is good.
But what do you do when you live in the countryside 30 km from the first supermarket?
Paris is a great city, but there are 55 million French people living elsewhere.
GUILLAUME CHERRE.
What is your secret to maintaining such proximity with the French?
It is to live quite normally.
I have a good salary, but I do the shopping, the paperwork, I take care of the trash… I don't think of myself as a star.
I go out very little at night.
I kept my friends from before TV.
When I'm on vacation, I manage to drop out.
After 33 years, the passion is intact.
And I don't plan for the long term.
My only goal is to make a good journal.
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GUILLAUME CHERRE.
Where does your desire to defend our regions and our heritage come from?
It has come over the years.
When I started working in Paris, I was living in Amiens.
I took the train at 5:30 am.
And sometimes I left my house there was a meter of snow.
It was a hassle and we didn't say a word about it in the national news.
The television only spoke of intramural Paris.
Beyond the ring road, journalists wore bush helmets, even when going to the Yvelines.
News only spoke of the regions when journalists went to the Cannes Film Festival.
So I decided, and many people resented me, to create a network of correspondents in the regions.
We did a regional newspaper.
It didn't exist.
Today, the media pay much more attention to what is happening in the territory.
It's my pride.
CLAUDE JARASSON.
Were you not hurt by the rejection of the profession, when you interviewed the President of the Republic, for example?
Oh, it was just three or four political journalists who think the president can only be interviewed by them.
They think what they want, me too.
I just wanted to ask him the French questions.
AURÉLIA BOUA.
Do you think you have created a rivalry between rural France and urban France?
I didn't create it, I saw it.
I show France as it is and not as some would like it to be.
And you have a different life when you live in the countryside or in a big city.
When we show images of people crowded into the metro, it hurts everywhere in France.
Ditto when we show a flooded housing estate or people who lose the last business in their village.
We just show people's lives.
CLAUDE JARASSON.
How to explain this divide between the capital and the so-called deep France?
There is no rivalry, but a break.
A septuagenarian who lives in an isolated village in the mountains, when he hears about cycling he wants to slap.
The administration wants us to do all our paperwork online, but how do those who live in white areas do?
GUILLAUME CHERRE.
If there were only one region left, which would it be?
I am chauvinist like everyone else, so mine, Picardy.
And that of my wife, Alsace.
AURÉLIA BOUA.
Tell us about your ideal traditional meal?
Oh, it's complicated!
I love the egg mayonnaise.
My favorite dish is veal's head, which was the Sunday dish when I was little.
I am not very dessert, but I have a weakness for mille-feuille!
CLAUDE JARASSON.
What memory do you keep of “How much does it cost”?
It has been 19 years of happiness.
It was very new back then to mix info and entertainment and talk about money.
How many wasted budgets have been revealed to build bridges in the middle of wheat fields?
More than 1 billion euros, no doubt!
I dream of seeing the program come back.
If TF1 calls me, I go for it.
COVID-19.
"There will be a third wave"
/ LP / Olivier Corsan
CAROLINE ROUVROY.
Do you think the Covid-19 crisis is well managed?
I don't think so, but I see a lot of inconsistencies.
With 55,000 dead, France is among the hardest hit countries.
During confinement, people who walked at the beach were systematically fined while at Versailles we walked without being worried.
The government said the masks were not useful, but today they are mandatory.
Did he lie to hide the shortage?
I hear doctors say everything and its opposite ... We are in a fog, we do not know where we are going.
France reacted late, like many other countries.
Journalists who do not denounce it are doing propaganda.
Are you going to get vaccinated?
I do not know.
For the moment, Professor Caumes has said to remain cautious, especially for the elderly, who nevertheless want to be vaccinated first.
I have absolute confidence in the doctors.
I am not anti-vaccine, far from it.
But I am waiting for scientific studies to find out.
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GAYLORD GUENNEC.
How did you experience the confinement?
Wrong.
I have been out of the garden only once in three months for a medical appointment.
My wife three times to fill the freezer.
TF1 installed an automatic studio for me on the first day of confinement so that I could participate in the newspaper from home.
We did like everyone else, we cooked, tinkered and worked.
And I thought about the meaning of life, what is essential and what is not.
Where and with whom are you going to spend the end of the year holidays?
We don't know yet… My wife joined us after the election of Miss France
(Editor's note: she is a member of the jury)
.
We will be 4. But it's just as dangerous.
The important thing, in my opinion, is not to be 6 or 20. It is to pay attention to barrier gestures.
It's a family celebration, we can't stop people from coming together, but on January 14th there will be a third wave.
CAROLINE ROUVROY.
Is it easy to live with a Miss?
Do you have a favorite for Saturday's contest?
Oh yes!
He's a normal person!
It's less easy to live with an actress who comes home late at night after work.
We don't see each other much during the week.
And for the Misses, I always vote for Miss Picardie.
HIS FUTURE.
"I'm going to swing a little in my memories"
/ LP / Olivier Corsan
AURÉLIA BOUA.
You will be launching a new show on LCI and the JPPTV platform.
What is it about ?
On January 9, at midday, I start on LCI “Jean-Pierre et vous”.
Every week, for an hour, I will talk about the French on the news, in duplex from home.
With a few journalists, we will try to answer their questions.
And on December 18th, we launch my website, JPPTV.
Fr.
It will be a kind of Netflix of the regions, where the extraordinary library of subjects that we have filmed for 33 years will be available for free.
Some of our 15,000 reports show the richness of our heritage, our gastronomy, our crafts, our local products ... And allow you to discover magnificent places.
This look back is interesting, because we see rural France evolving.
GAYLORD GUENEC.
What are your other projects ?
I read that you were writing a play… Does this environment attract you?
I discovered the theater thanks to my wife.
It's an environment that I love, especially the tours.
We had fun like crazy with "Trap a Matignon" and "Presidential Regime", the two plays I wrote with Nathalie.
In 2011, it was imagined that a Budget Minister had an account in Switzerland and that a Prime Minister would bring croissants to his mistress disguised as a biker.
When the Jérôme Cahuzac affair broke, the people who came to see our play couldn't believe their eyes.
We really want to write a third one, but it will take a few months.
CAROLINE ROUVROY.
Did you write your memoirs?
“33 years with you” will be released normally on February 11.
I will tell my story, behind the scenes of my arrival at the newspaper, of the making of the news.
And also what I think of a number of people.
I let go a little in the book!
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GUILLAUME CHERRE.
Have you thought about retiring permanently?
I never had a career plan, so no retirement plan either.
I have lots of projects, you see!
I think I'll definitely quit when I don't feel like working at all.
I don't feel old.
GAYLORD GUENEC.
Have you ever thought about playing politics?
No.
I love politics, but it's not my job.
GAYLORD GUENNEC.
What can you wish for next?
I greatly apprehend the newspaper of December 18.
I'm not going to miss doing the airing, but the contact with the public and this team… It's going to be a lot of emotion… Please wish me to continue doing my job while I am fishing.
Jean-Pierre Pernaut and the readers of our newspaper
/ LP / Olivier Corsan
Around Jean-Pierre Pernaut, from left to right and from top to bottom: Gaylord Guenec, 39, teacher of PE, Beaumont-sur-Oise (Val-d'Oise);
Claude Jarasson, 64, retired, Bourg la Reine (Haut-de-Seine);
Guillaume Cherre, 26, Mediaplanner, Maison-Alfort (Val-de-Marne);
Aurélia Boua, 40, teacher, Blanc-Mesnil (Seine-Saint-Denis);
Caroline Rouvroy, 53, pharmacist, Feucherolles (Yvelines).
