The funeral of Jean-Pierre Pernaut, popular star of the 1 p.m. news from TF1 who died on Wednesday at the age of 71, will take place on Wednesday in Paris, the television channel announced on Monday.
A religious ceremony will take place from 11 a.m. at the Sainte-Clotilde basilica in the 7th arrondissement of Paris.
The burial will be held in the strictest privacy, specifies TF1.
Star presenter of the TF1 news
Regularly cited among the most popular personalities in France, Jean-Pierre Pernaut died Wednesday at the age of 71 as a result of his lung cancer.
For 33 years, he had established himself as the king of midday news, with a formula based on proximity.
He succeeded Yves Mourousi, then boss of 13H, in 1988. At the time, this newspaper only gathered 2.5 million viewers, behind that of Antenne 2.
With Jean-Pierre Pernaut at the helm, it garnered twice as many every day, with an audience share regularly exceeding 40% and a considerable gap over the competition.
The one who had joined TF1 from its creation had decided to withdraw from the JT, on December 18, 2020, when he was at the height of his audiences.
Sick, the septuagenarian had however remained active on "JPP TV", an online platform to offer regional subjects created by TF1, and present on the LCI news channel (TF1 group) a weekly program called
Jean-Pierre et vous
.
In 2021, he also created a paper magazine, called
Au cœur des regions
.
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