Marie Portolano, presenter of the "Canal Sports Club", leaves the encrypted channel to co-present "Le grand cactus", the future new program of M6.

A departure which would register, according to one of his relatives interviewed by "Le Parisien", in the aftermath of the controversial dismissal of Sébastien Thoen, at the end of November 2020.

It is a new departure which is announced at Canal +, that of Marie Portolano.

The journalist takes the direction of the M6 ​​channel, according to the website of the newspaper

Le Parisien

.

Marie Portolano is expected to co-present

Le Grand Cactus

, M6's adaptation of a Belgian comedy talk show, about which we were telling you earlier this year.

Sport is over for the journalist who has been deciphering it for 6 and a half years.

She notably presented the

Canal Sports Club

, after having been a columnist in the

Canal Football Club

.

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A departure driven by the "repression" at Canal +?

"Marie Portolano leaves before being fired," explains one of her relatives in

Paris

.

Because this departure is part of the deleterious context that has reigned for several months within the Canal + group.

According to this relative interviewed, the management of Canal would have Marie Portolano in the viewfinder.

the reason ?

She signed, with a hundred other journalists, technicians, consultants, a text in support of the comedian Sébastien Thoen.

The latter was fired by Canal + at the end of November 2020, after he participated in a parody of the show

L'heure des pros

from CNews, a channel that belongs to the same group.

Sports commentator Stéphane Guy was then fired for supporting Sébastien Thoen.

The National Union of Journalists (SNJ) denounces a "repression" within the Canal + group.