On June 4, 2012, Gilles Bouleau was appointed 20-hour news anchor on TF1. Before that, the journalist was a reporter for the channel, then for LCI. Also, he spent ten years as a correspondent in England and the United States. From now on, the television world has no secrets for him. However, this was not always the case. Indeed, the colleague of Anne-Claire Coudray lived part of his youth … without television! As he had entrusted to our colleagues from Télé-Loisirs in May 2019, watching TV was a "reward". "I used to go to the house of a person who didn't live very far from me and who had the television. There, I ate crackers while watching Tintin. When we went on vacation in Corsica, my parents rented a house where there was a TV ", he remembered.
Gilles Bouleau mocked by his comrades… because of the television!
In his youth, the replacement for Laurence Ferrari had a hard time not being equipped like his comrades. And for good reason, he was the target of many mockeries because of this. "I remember one day in elementary school when a kid pointed a branch at me saying," I'm Zorro ". I said," Who the hell is Zorro? " Everyone looked at me like I was a fool. At the time, I felt very alone …", he said.
Television arrived at his home when he was 11 years old: his parents finally "yielded to pressure" exercised by him and his sister. Gilles Bouleau, who turns 58 on May 25, 2020, admits to watching television less today. By "lack of time" only.
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