A year after the departure of her mentor Jean-Pierre Pernaut, Dominique Lagrou-Sempère announced that she was also leaving TF1 to look to new horizons. An announcement made with emotion on Twitter, Thursday, December 30.
The year 2022 will be synonymous with renewal for Dominique Lagrou-Sempère. In 2001, the journalist joined the TF1 channel in the general news service, quickly going through posts until she found herself on the channel’s 13-hour news team. Accomplice of Jean-Pierre Pernaut, with whom she hosted magazines such as At the heart of the regions or the emissions Your best market and SOS Villages, here is that the wife of the late Claude Sempère decided to follow in the footsteps of her mentor, a year after his departure from the JT which he had presented for more than thirty years. Indeed, Thursday, December 30, Dominique Lagrou-Sempère formalized his departure from TF1, after twenty years of good and loyal service.
“I am no longer part of TF1”
After confirming to TV-Leisure last october no longer “to be a part of” from the channel’s 13 hour team, the reporter confirmed her departure on Twitter. “Before 2021 ends, I wanted to say THANK YOU for your many messages. I am touched to know that my After the storm was waiting for you under the tree this year “, she wrote, with reference to her book dedicated to her late husband, who died of cancer in 2019, before specifying: “Also tell you that I am no longer part of TF1.“ If she says “See you soon” to his admirers who “also missing”, Dominique Lagrou-Sempère adds that she has “look forward to [les] find for the rest of [son] professional path “.
Jean-Pierre Pernaut supports Dominique Lagrou-Sempère
Without saying more about the rest of her career, the journalist is therefore preparing to sail towards new horizons, she whose book After the storm has won over many readers. In it, she looks back on the illness of her husband, Claude Sempère, as well as on her life after his disappearance. A work prefaced by Jean-Pierre Pernaut, who retweeted the departure message of Dominique Lagrou-Sempère, after having always been of great support for her. “Jean-Pierre was one of those who never saw me as a sick woman, like the wife of Claude Sempère suffering from cancer, and afterwards like the widow, the weeping widow that we must protect. This little one fragile woman. Never “, she had thus confided last November. “Jean-Pierre always looked at me as being Dominique Lagrou-Sempère. He knows what my resources are, he knows my strength. We have shared enough things”, she remembered then.
never far, on the other side of the rainbow, after the storm. Also tell you that I am no longer part of TF1. See you soon. I miss you too. ? I look forward to seeing you again for the rest of my professional journey. (2/2)
– Dominique Lagrou Sempere (@DLagrouSempere) December 30, 2021
Article written in collaboration with 6Medias.