Barely the page of 13 Hours of TF1 closed for him, Jean-Pierre Pernaut takes the pen in “33 Years with you” (Ed. Michel Lafon), a book which will appear Thursday February 11th.
Over nearly 300 pages, the emblematic presenter looks back on these three decades where he was invited to lunchtime with the French, until his departure from the newspaper on December 18.
An "immense happiness", he sums up by distilling his anecdotes, more or less happy.
And a few scratches.
Exclusive extracts.
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When he took control of the mid-day edition of the front page in 1987, Jean-Pierre Pernaut wanted to cross the ring road and go everywhere in France.
He creates a network of correspondents at TF1, gives pride of place to local events and regional traditions.
Initiatives mocked by some.
"Should I have given up on covering all this on the grounds that supposedly trendy shows and supposedly intelligent articles written by hip journalists have so long denigrated my choices?"
Of course not !
he protests.
The 13 Hours is not and has never been intended for these people.
"
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It is also to speak to all that the journalist refuses a teleprompter which parades the launches of the JT.
And assumes to react to the broadcast reports, even if it means annoying some.
“These are only natural common sense reflections in my mind and I never disguise reality.
[…] I share those that people make, ”he defends himself.
And to cite the example of a customer who called out to him in a supermarket to thank him "for saying out loud what we think softly".
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“How much does it cost?”, Model of impertinence
This is one of the great pride of Jean-Pierre Pernaut on television: helped by Christophe Dechavanne, he launches “How much does it cost?
"In 1991. The magazine on the concrete economy will remain on the air for nearly twenty years, highlighting the abundance of roundabouts, inaccessible bridges, underground car parks unsuitable for cars ..." Hundreds of examples and billions squandered ", he sums up.
Passed from prime time to Sunday afternoon in 2008, the program lost its audience.
And TF1 stops him two years later.
“This type of program has completely disappeared from the landscape today.
We are told that TV has changed and that more modern concepts are needed.
I especially think that this type of impertinence is too embarrassing in a society on edge that looks like a powder keg, ready to ignite at the slightest deviation, regrets Pernaut.
Can we still laugh at everything?
Could anyone imagine
How much does it cost?
Le Petit Rapporteur
or the humor of Desproges and Coluche today?
I'm afraid not, alas.
"
The celebrity press, a "tide of garbage"
April 2005. Nathalie Marquay, companion of the emblematic presenter, joins the reality show "la Ferme Celebrities".
The people press evokes a rapprochement of Daniel Ducruet, another participant, with the former Miss France.
While on vacation in Lavandou (Var), Pernaut discovers some of them "terrified".
"A tide of garbage, treating my wife of a dazzled midinette dripping with tan oil, telling me devastated or announcing our imminent separation," he recalls.
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“Sixty-six magazine covers in eight weeks!
he recalls.
And forty-two legal proceedings, all won.
”Misadventures with the paparazzi which continued during his marriage to Nathalie, in 2007, or the funeral of his mother in 2016,“ dirty ”by these photographers.
Talking "quietly" about Amiens with Macron
This is one of the big hits of the last years of his 13 Hours.
In April 2018, JPP landed an interview with the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, carried out in a school in Orne.
“Anger is roaring everywhere, and with my team it seemed important to us to get clear answers from the Head of State,” he explains.
The journalist has fond memories of the scenes where Emmanuel Macron, "very relaxed", spent two hours discussing with education staff.
"He took full advantage of this moment, and I too, especially since we also had time to talk quietly about our good city of Amiens", writes Jean-Pierre Pernaut.
What remind him Nicolas Sarkozy, with whom the current president would share "the permanent desire to convince and to start real dialogues, without filter, with the French".
"The unhealthy humor" of the "Guignols"
Canal + 'Les Guignols' gave him buttons.
"I have always hated and I had the nerve to say it", insists Jean-Pierre Pernaut.
For him, the puppets were only a “very pale copy of the Bébête Show” with an “unhealthy humor”.
Mocked for the regional anchoring of his news, presented as "an abominable facho", in his words, he has often been the target.
"No doubt because the authors of these sketches, who had a very curious conception of history, felt that being interested in people and regions was necessarily a sign of extreme right-wing activism," laments the star. from TF1.
"Les Guignols" have disappeared.
“Other shows have replaced them.
As with the traffic jams on the highway, it's sad, but you get used to it… ”
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“33 Years with you”, by Jean-Pierre Pernaut, Ed. Michel Lafon, 280 pages, 18.95 euros.
