Bruce Toussaint: the journalist “very impatient” to arrive on the air of TF1: Femme Actuelle Le MAG

It’s an arrival to which viewers of TF1 didn’t expect. On October 6, 2023, the first channel announced the arrival of Bruce Toussaint. The emblematic journalist of BFMTVwhere he had worked since 2018, agreed to take on a major challenge: that of presenting a morning show on the TF1. For Thierry Thuillier, the group’s deputy general director of information, the choice of Bruce Toussaint was obvious. For his part, the main person concerned was the guest of the show Looking forward to SundaySunday November 19, 2023. “You like the sense of the band and the team”, Michel Drucker first reminded him. To which Bruce Toussaint immediately responded: “One of the most important things in this profession is to transmit, to be generous, I think people feel that a lot.” For Catherine Fruchon’s husband, missing this opportunity was impossible. After mentioning Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine, who was at his side, Bruce Toussaint said: “I have done it for a long time, to transmit, a little less today in the exercise that I practice but, indeed, from the start of the school year in January, I will have a gang. So, I am very impatient to find this exercise again“.

Bruce Toussaint on TF1: this major challenge thrown at the journalist

The arrival of Bruce Toussaint on the air of the first channel is fast approaching. In a press release published Thursday October 5, 2023, the group TF1 provided details regarding this new organization. “Bruce Toussaint will present from Monday to Friday, a daily morning welcome meeting”, we could read. A show during which viewers will be able to find “information editions, sections on daily life, culture, the art of living and major trends”, continues this press release. To cover the news in its entirety, the 50-year-old journalist will be able to count on the presence “from a new team of columnists” with which “it will rely on the network of regional correspondents to be as close as possible to viewers and their daily lives.” This new meeting should last three hours and is a real headache for the first channel. “We are working on a grid which allows us to offer these two series, as well as our morning show, Téléshopping and our cartoons”confided Xavier Gandon, director of the group’s television and digital channels TF1in the columns of ParisianSunday October 22, 2023.