VS’is arguably the most well-known mustache among viewers. For nearly twenty years, he presented the television news on the second channel with rigor, but without forgetting a small note of humor, even madness. Anti-star by definition, Hervé Claude left the screens in the mid-1990s. In 2011, Thierry Ardisson decided to “turn the lights back on” on this journalist in Everyone talked about itavailable on the INA ArdiTube channel.
Born of a Lorraine father and a Breton mayor “like Victor Hugo”, the young Hervé Claude was bored in high school. Journalism will open up to him a bit by chance thanks to a press officer at Insee for which he worked. Here he is a journalist on the second channel then on France Inter, in 1975, thanks to the reform of the ORTF set up by Valéry Giscard d’Estaing. “I left for fifteen years of newspaper. My parents were happy for me, it was not extraordinary for them. They were more blown away when I moved on to Apostrophes several years later. “His reign at 8 p.m. is almost a long calm river, without too much controversy. “One evening, I cut off Georges Marchais. The newspaper Red put me in one and titled “The coarse of the screen” ”, explains the one who marked the bloopers with his famous disappearance under the table. “I had seen that in an American sketch film. I felt that the credits did not start. I said to my assistant, “Chick, I’m slipping under the desk.” She said to me: “Not cap.” And I did it. I wrote the newspaper for twenty years and people only talk to me about that,” he laughs.
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Hervé Claude makes no noise on and off the sets. After being married to the journalist Françoise Kramer, he met the sculptor Matei Negreanu. “I’ve never been in the closet. Everyone knew it in the editorial staff. I never felt the need to come out. »
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Claude’s career comes to a halt. Having become the boss of France Télévisions, Jean-Pierre Elkabbach fired him in 1994. The reasons? “You will have to ask him, he slips into a smile. I had known him in another life, it had gone badly. “Hervé Claude goes to Arte and returns to France 2 to host a program in The day of the Lord. But the light is less dazzling. “I am not nostalgic for notoriety”, concludes this eternal modest.
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