“Separating from Julie after so many years on the air is tough.
But to deprive her of saying goodbye to listeners is of rare violence, ”says a close friend of Nicolas Canteloup's pair on Europe 1. Last Thursday, when producer Jean-Marc Dumontet announced the premature end of the collaboration of the imitator with the station, we did not really know the fate of Julie Leclerc, 71 years old.
That day, however, she learned that she too would not be returned.
She will therefore not celebrate her 50th birthday at the microphone of Europe 1.
"In June, the management had reassured her about her future," says a radio executive.
And we fire it in the middle of summer?
They are not methods.
“Contacted, Julie Leclerc did not wish to answer us, but the sound of her voice is marked by this news, experienced as a cold shower.
“She is very sad,” reports another person around her.
For its part, the management of Europe 1 did not respond to our requests.
"A great signature of Europe 1"
Sixteen years that Julie Leclerc teamed up with Nicolas Canteloup. “They danced so well together, regrets Jean-Marc Dumontet. With us, she was very kind, very attentive. Humanly, she had great qualities. He was also someone who had a great presence on the air, without ever putting himself forward. A laugh, even a silence from Julie, these were strong moments. And then, Julie was a great signing from Europe 1. She will be missed a lot. "
Marc-Olivier Fogiel, with whom she teamed up, is full of praise.
"When we share the microphone with Julie, nothing can happen to you, ensures the former morning.
She absolutely knows how to react to everything.
And she has a huge culture.
When I arrived
(Editor's note: in 2008)
, there was no longer a playmaker in the morning.
The first thing I asked for was Julie's return.
Nobody understood why, not even her who said to me:
Are you sure?
I knew it would make all the difference.
"
A way out of the industrial tribunal?
The wife of journalist Gilles Leclerc, née Julie Chantal Séloron, made her debut when the station was still called Europe number 1, in 1972. “I am very attached to this house, and I do not plan to leave it. », She confided to us, barely three years ago. Now it's up to his lawyers to defend their interests if necessary. According to our information, Julie Leclerc has chained CDD to CDD. What can be argued at the industrial tribunal. And this can also explain her silence, as well as that of other animators that we have called upon, to which she has remained very close. "For ten minutes on the air, it was expensive," says, off microphone, a close to management.
The name of Julie Leclerc is added to a list of personalities recently dismissed by Europe 1. Starting with the morning man Matthieu Belliard, who will be replaced by Dimitri Pavlenko (from Radio Classique and CNews) at the start of the school year. We can also mention the forced departure of Patrick Cohen, that of Pascale Clark, or that of the columnist Bertrand Chameroy, who had subtly mentioned on the air the changes underway at Europe 1, in the phase of rapprochement with the Vivendi group, directed by Vincent Bolloré.