the touching words of Sylvie Tellier to Nathalie marquay

The sad news was announced on Wednesday March 2, 2022. Suffering from lung cancer, Jean-Pierre Pernaut died at the age of 71. He had already fought prostate cancer in 2018. Since then, early admirers, regulars of his 1 p.m. news on TF1 which he presented from 1988 to 2020, and personalities have paid tribute to him. On social networks, on television and in the newspapers, everyone shares their sadness and tells anecdotes with the journalist.

Among them, Sylvie Tellier. Head of Miss France that she presents to the French every year on the 1 p.m. set, she spoke on Instagram. In the caption of a photo of JPP and his companion Nathalie Marquay, former beauty queen elected in 1987, she began by regretting: “Life takes away a smile, a voice, a talented journalist, but above all a friend“.

The tender words of Sylvie Tellier to Nathalie Marquay

Before addressing her friend, “my Nath“: “I think so much of you, of your children Lou and Tom, of Olivier, of Julia. I share your pain and send you all my love“. A tender message that she concluded: “Goodbye my Jean-Pierre, thank you for these 20 years, your confidence, your friendship, your simplicity. I will miss you so much…”. A post liked more than 64,000 times in just a few hours and highly commented. “Unimaginable this day. We lose a member of the family“, “Just like you, I am deeply saddened by the disappearance of Mr Pernaut“ or “We will never forget it“, can we read among the many emojis “sad”.

For her part, Diane Leyre also paid tribute to the journalist who crowned her Miss France 2022. “It is with him and thanks to him that my year of Miss France began. I won’t forget the first words and advice he gave me on stage. You honored our class of 2022 to be the president of the jury. You marked each of the candidates with your humility, generosity and kindness“, she wrote on Instagram.