Jean-Pierre Pernaut, former star presenter of the TF1 newscast, died at the age of 71 from lung cancer, his wife Nathalie Marquay-Pernaut’s agent told AFP on Wednesday.
“Tom, Lou, Olivier and Julien’s father died of lung cancer” Wednesday afternoon, she said, a few minutes before TF1 confirmed the journalist’s disappearance.
At the end of November in a video on Twitter, Jean-Pierre Pernaut revealed that he was suffering from lung cancer. A few days later, the emblematic journalist of the TF1 group disappeared from the antenna of the LCI channel where he presented Jean-Pierre and you every Saturday.
Son of an engineer, Jean Pernaut, and a pharmacist, Françoise Pernaut, Jean-Pierre Pernaut was born on April 8, 1950 in the Somme, in Amiens. His vocation was born at school where he participated in a local newspaper, before doing his 3rd year internship at Mail Picard.
The pope of the JT on TF1
A graduate of the Lille School of Journalism, he cut his teeth at the regional office of the ORTF in Amiens-Picardie. After the break-up of the ORTF in December 1974, Christian Bernadac offered him the presentation of the Journal de 11 p.m. on the new channel, TF1. From 1978 and 1980, he co-presented the Journal de 13 h with Yves Mourousi. In 1988, Patrick Le Lay offered him the orders for the presentation of the 1 p.m. news to succeed the duo Yves Mourousi and Marie-Laure Augry. He stands from 1988 to 2020 as the pope of television news in France with an editorial line that focuses on proximity. At the same time, since 1991 he has presented the consumer magazine How much does it cost ?
On September 25, 2018, his wife, ex-Miss France Nathalie Marquay revealed on her Instagram account that Jean-Pierre Pernaut has prostate cancer. He resumes the antenna a few weeks later. On December 18, 2020, Jean-Pierre Pernaut presents his last news from 1 p.m. on TF1.