TF1 journalist Jacques Legros, who is publishing a book this week, said that at TF1 everyone knew that PAtrick Poivre d’Arvor “loved women to excess”.
Since the PDDA affair broke out, silence has been the golden rule at TF1. The former star journalist of 8 p.m. is currently targeted by twenty-one complaints from women who accuse him of rape and sexual assault. Crimes sometimes perpetrated within the chain itself in the office of PDDA, according to the victims.
Were PDDA’s actions known internally? Asked about Europe 1 this Thursday morning, the journalist Jacques Legros replied that at the time of the glory of Patrick Poivre d’Arvor, his disproportionate taste for women was known to everyone.
“Poivre, we knew he loved women to excess, we all knew that. Absolutely all of us (…) Every time we saw a young pretty girl passing by, we said to ourselves: Ah, provided that Poivre does not cross her”, declared the joker of 1 p.m. in the program “Culture media” by Philippe Vandel. Relaunched by the host on the word “excess”, Jacques Legros replied: “Excess, in number of women he met”. And to clarify: “That’s all that was known, the rest was behind the door”.
Jacques Legros does not address the PDDA affair – “I am not a judge” he says – in his book in which he does however discuss his relations with Jean-Pierre Pernaut.
A few days ago, Jacques Legros said on Sud Radio that viewers will not know that he will present his last diary the day he does. “I planned to do it in absolute discretion. I don’t think anyone will know that this is my last diary”.