It is a new story of succession between Anne-Sophie Lapix and Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine.
After "C to you", the presenter of the 20 Hours of France 2 officially entrusts her with the presentation of the "Grand Echiquier", which she relaunched in 2018. She also recounts her absence from the antenna after a positive PCR test in February , the departure of Jean-Pierre Pernaut from the TF1 newscast and tackles the PPDA affair with a grain of salt, accused of rape by the writer Florence Porcel.
A month ago, you tested positive for Covid-19.
How did you experience this period?
ANNE-SOPHIE LAPIX.
I was lucky to be asymptomatic.
It was a very strange time where, without being sick, I submitted to isolation for seven days while I continued to go to the newsroom even during both confinements.
My children were angry with me because, being contact cases, they had to comply too.
And they kept me at a distance.
Ultimately, no one else was infected.
I took the opportunity to read Colson Whitehead's latest Pulitzer Prize "Nickel Boys".
And I tidied up and tidied up again.
That week, Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine replaced you at the presentation of the “Grand Echiquier”.
Will we see you hosting this show again?
No.
I stop "Le Grand Echiquier" to refocus on the 20 Hours.
The news is very intense with the health crisis and promises to be just as dense with the presidential election.
I loved presenting this show, it was one of my best professional experiences alongside the 3rd Eye teams with the support of Martine Chancel (
Editor's note: the widow of Jacques Cancel, who launched the show in 1972
), but the format will evolve, in particular towards more varieties and less classic.
It doesn't quite suit me anymore.
I am delighted that it is Anne-Elisabeth who is replacing me.
She had already succeeded you on "C to you".
Next time, is it the JT she gets?
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(
Laughs
) I wish him, it's a great job too.
Although I'm not sure that's really his goal.
The 20 Hours of France 2 gained 600,000 viewers in one year, for a total of 5.7 million.
While we predicted the death of this high mass ...
We hold on, eh?
This is mainly due to this particular news around the Covid, which occupies about 75% of our newspapers.
It is also fascinating to rack your brains to find new angles, new ways to interest viewers.
Fake news still circulates as much on social networks, in the 20 Hours, people come looking for reliable information, in-depth subjects, decryption, surveys.
We are particularly careful not to fall into approximation and haste.
There is a lot of restraint and verification work.
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Without being the spokespersons for the government ...
Oh no !
I do not have that impression of it.
Even if there is great government news with weekly press conferences, that does not prevent us from being critical.
Some people criticize us for being tough.
It is our role to constantly question the announced measures.
Small flat, the gap widened with the 20 Hours of Gilles Bouleau on TF1, which peaked in February at 6.7 million.
Impossible to walk past?
We are already trying to glue them.
The gap is large in February, but the difference was smaller in January.
Our goal is not to drop out.
It was more complicated during the first confinement because several subjects were first broadcast on France 3, then at home.
This is hardly the case today.
“I can't imagine making a career like Pernaut, Chazal, Poivre (d'Arvor) or even Pujadas,” says Lapix.
/ LP / Jean Nicholas Guillo
One year from the presidential election, how do you plan to approach this deadline?
There will inevitably be more politics in the newspapers.
But in what form?
It's difficult to project yourself.
We will wait until early September before making any changes.
For now, the health crisis is slowing the entry into the campaign of candidates and even slowing the emergence of candidates.
It will be a completely new campaign, which will play on the pandemic.
You presented "Dimanche +" from 2008 to 2013 on Canal +.
Would you like a new big political meeting?
I obviously want to do more political interviews during the campaign, but I'm not asking for more visibility, nor interested in the Thursday night political show, if that's your question (
laughs
).
I am a fan of Léa Salamé and Thomas Sotto, whom I watch all the time.
On December 18, Jean-Pierre Pernaut left the 13 Hours of TF1 after 33 years on the air ...
It was an event.
I know him since a long time.
He is a great presenter capable of improvising, knowing exactly what he wants in his journal.
Its crisis management made it a model.
It must be a great pride for him that the 13 Hours of Marie-Sophie Lacarrau remains in the continuity of what he has built.
For his part, Julian Bugier is reinventing the 13h of France 2 by bringing his sensitivity.
Jean-Pierre Pernaut was also known for his rants ...
Yes, that was part of his character.
It is not my own conception.
I try to convey information, but not my ideas.
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In December 2017, you said: "If I am not fired within five years, maybe I will choose to leave myself."
Have you set a departure date?
I can't imagine making a career like Pernaut, Chazal, Poivre (d'Arvor) or even Pujadas.
My career is marked by experiences of 4-5 years.
Afterwards, it is never a presenter who decides the time of his departure.
And I am very happy today.
When you started out on LCI, you worked with Patrick Poivre d'Arvor.
He is now targeted by an investigation for rape ...
It is essential that women who feel victimized can speak out and be listened to.
Regarding PPDA, I refer you to the words of Claire Chazal (
Editor's note: on France Inter, his ex-partner mentioned his side "seductive, loving to conquer and, let's say it, multiply female conquests" while specifying that he "does not 'is nothing in violence and force'
).
