The former great reporter has been complying with the exercise of presenting the weekend news (from Friday evening to Sunday evening) on TF1 since the departure of Claire Chazal in 2015. In parallel with this activity, Anne-Claire Coudray lends herself punctually to the animation of exceptional events such as the presidential debate, the great interview of Emmanuel Macron, the "Mag of the World Cup" in 2018 on the occasion of the victory of the Blues but also the special edition dedicated to the program of the parade of July 14.
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Although she consents to all types of activities for her work - such as performing a freefall jump in 2021 or acrobatic figures in Alpha Jet with the Patrouille de France this year for the national holiday - the journalist explains in an interview with Télé 7 jours that she is "not at all a hothead" even if she recognizes that the adventure side attracts her. And contrary to what one might think, the fact of embodying the news of TF1 does not forbid him, contractually, to do certain things.
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"I am bound to a form of exemplarity"
"Our only obligation, as a presenter, is to be on the air on time, she attacked before nuanced: Well, it's true that I stopped moving by scooter and that I avoid going skiing in the winter, but you see, no one stopped me from skydiving ..." On the other hand, in the premises of TF1, all resort to a habit between superstition and foresight. "We all avoid taking the elevator before the JT, so as not to get stuck in it at the last minute. [...] What is true is that I am bound to a form of exemplarity, to a certain verbal and corporal classicism, but it goes with the mission to inform."
They have the right to have an opinion on the presenter who comes to their home
Anne-Claire Coudray
"Otherwise, I choose my own clothes," she says. His choices sometimes earned him criticism from viewers. "It's funny, but since you're totally committed, you have to accept that the criticism is physical." Among the targets of his detractors, his outfits but also his hairstyles or gestures. "There is a viewer who is outraged by my hairstyle. He thinks I have fake hair and he wrote me a letter recently. There is also a woman who hates when I wear black, another who can't stand my dresses that are too short, etc., "she reveals to the weekly.
Philosopher and optimist Anne-Claire Coudray relativizes these comments. "It's normal, I come knocking on their door twice a day, with the 13 p.m. and 20 p.m. news, and they have the right to have an opinion on the presenter who comes to their home. You learn to accept it, since that's the game. Ah, I shouldn't tell you, but there is also a gentleman who writes to me, because he can't stand me moving my left arm too much against my chest. It's a tic that I try to master, because I talk a lot with my hands..."