Is there a curse hanging over TF1, the curse of December 17? That day, Marie-Sophie Lacarrau took leave of the viewers to take a well-deserved vacation. Since then, she has not returned. The fault with a serious ophthalmic problem which obliges it with a long treatment. After being reassuring in an interview with France Info in early January, it was only this weekend that she gave her news directly, via a video posted on social networks. We will still have to be patient before seeing her once more at the controls of 1 p.m., we understand.
On December 17, Jean-Pierre Pernaut also took leave of LCI viewers. “Happy New Year. See you in the fall”he had launched before punctuating his sentence with a “I hope” which today worries a lot of people. Because he too has not reappeared since, for health reasons, too. After overcoming prostate cancer diagnosed in 2018, then right lung cancer last summer, he was diagnosed with a new one, in the other lung, this fall. But this time the news was not good as he is not operable due to the fragile condition of the 71-year-old journalist.
When will he be back on the air? Impossible to say. Contacted by The Parisian, Jean-Pierre Pernaut was content to say that he is resting as recommended by his doctor. Same story on the side of TF1. However, the French daily evokes a growing concern within the editorial staff of the channel: “Everyone is talking regarding that here. We like it. It makes us sad,” confided a journalist from TF1.
The PurePeople site recalls, meanwhile, that at the beginning of February, Lou, the daughter of the ex-presenter of 1 p.m., had given news of her father. On Instagram, she was reassuring, indicating that the cancer in question was detected in time. “It’s still a long way but we believe in it”she pointed out.
