It is with our colleagues from Télé 7 jours, that the presenter Anne-Claire Coudray confides in complete transparency in the new issue of Monday July 3. She talks about her job, her daily life, but also about the criticisms she receives daily from viewers about her physique.
She is one of the best-known journalists in France, Anne-Claire Coudray at the head of TF1’s weekend television news for 8 years now is a face well known to French viewers. At the age of 46, the journalist has several strings to her bow, indeed it is for the feature film Ninja Turtles—Teenage years that she decided to lend her voice. The opportunity for viewers to discover it in a context other than that of headlines and current events.
A pioneer in the field, she nevertheless reveals during a recent interview with our colleagues from TV 7 days that she remembers her debut like it was yesterday. Chaotic beginnings for the young woman at the time, who speaks of it as a ” terrible stress “. Indeed, at the time she worked for the chain LCIas a joker and her first appearance live was totally unplanned, she explains:“I had to receive a mayor. He never came. Five minutes before the live, the editor-in-chief of LCI said to me: “you take his place and you are going to tell us about your day”, and there is the internal explosion“. Even if today there are still good memories to tell, she also underlined having to face many criticisms of her physique since she was at the helm of the TF1 newscast.
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Critics she learned to accept
While our colleagues ask him the question “And why are you regularly yelled at?“, the journalist reveals to have to face certain criticisms from French viewers: “It’s funny, but as we are totally committed, we have to accept that the criticisms are physical.” She says with a touch of humor: “There is a viewer who is outraged by my hairstyle. He thinks I have fake hair and he wrote me a letter lately» before adding «There is also a woman who hates that I wear black, another who can’t stand my dresses that are too short“.
Criticisms that she has learned to put into perspective over time and that she understands in a way, she is part of the daily life of the French twice a day every weekend: “they have the right to have an opinion on the presenter who comes to embed themselves in their home“.
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