A new playground for Marie Portolano?
According to information from L'Equipe, of which we have had confirmation, the sports journalist from Canal + will leave the encrypted channel, after more than six years of contract.
His departure is being finalized and should take place in the next few days.
Passed by beIN Sports, this ex-columnist of the “Canal Football Club” presents the sports program “Canal Sports Club” since September 2018 on Saturday late afternoon.
With around her Julien Benneteau, Michaël Jeremiasz, Frédéric Michalak, Olivier Dacourt, Sidney Govou or even Clément Repellin.
But more the humorist Sébastien Thoen, fired at the end of November following a parody of CNews, on behalf of the online betting site Winamax, his other employer.
Like Habib Beye, Sidney Govou, Jessica Houara and 150 other journalists from Canal +, Marie Portolano signed a petition in December in support of Sébastien Thoen, who also presented the “Hard Journal”.
Without the management changing its decision.
Quite the contrary.
Stéphane Guy had in turn taken the door on December 24 for having sent him a message on the air.
This sanction had cast an icy cold in the sports editorial staff, some of whose members deemed not corporate enough received pressure.
"She preferred to take the lead"
It is in this climate of mistrust that Marie Portolano decided to join M6, after a first approach in November of the group led by Nicolas de Tavernost.
"Not long ago, the management of Canal + warned her that she was part of a list of thirty people who were going to be fired," confides one of her relatives.
She preferred to take the lead.
Especially since she wants to get out of sport and the Six's proposal was interesting.
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Initially, the 35-year-old journalist should co-present, with Alex Vizorek, the adaptation of “Grand Cactus”, a successful Belgian talk show that revisits national and international news surrounded by a group of comedians.
She was therefore preferred to Flavie Flament and Julia Vignali, who both passed tests.
Other programs could also be entrusted to it, especially entertainment and no longer sports-related programs.
What would exclude it from the device of Euro 2021. Contacted, M6 plays the watch.
“To date, Marie Portolano does not arrive in the M6 group”, specifies the channel.
But tomorrow ?
At Canal +, it is another house face which should replace Marie Portolano in March.
If the choice is not yet completely final, the journalist Astrid Bard is part of a very short-list to animate the "Canal Sports Club", according to our information.
Another advantage: she did not sign the petition in support of Sébastien Thoen, or else anonymously.
