Liane Lazaar is a web editor attached to the TV division of Purepeople.com. She knows as much about the journey of Jean-Pierre Pernaut on TF1 as the latest twists and turns of reality TV candidates and has a pronounced taste for stories of the heart.
Christine Kelly had the unpleasant surprise of learning of her own death during the week. “A bad joke” to which she reacted on her networks but also on the air of “Face à l’info”, her show on CNews.
Christine Kelly reacts to the “bad joke” which announced her death in “Face à l’info” on CNews.
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“Christine Kelly took her last breath at 5 a.m.“. This is how the death of the 54-year-old journalist was announced last Wednesday April 10 through a YouTube video entitled “Obituary. Female journalist, Christine Kelly (54 years old). Lamentin Cemetery. TF1“. And the first surprise was Christine Kelly herself. Because if the video specified that she had succumbed to a “terminal leukemia“, this is not the case. The CNews presenter is on the contrary, and fortunately, still in great shape.
Upon hearing the news, Christine Kelly initially preferred to laugh about it, sharing it on her Instagram account and accompanying it with the ironic caption: “I had another idea of paradise“. But that same evening, by returning to the air Faced with informationit was in a much more serious tone that she raised the subject.
“Yes, I know many of you had a shock today… I’m not dead“, she declared by way of introduction. And to regret the extent that the affair has taken: “I had a lot of calls, people in tears who told me: ‘Christine, we really thought you were dead.’ I’m here and really, I’m very shocked, because I took it for a joke, because I know that I’m still alive. But it really really really, this bad joke, touched friends. So I miss these kinds of jokes about people’s lives“.
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Many Internet users who follow her also feared for a short time that Christine Kelly had really died. “I had an emotion… until I understood that you were alive and well. Take care of yourself“, “Oh my God I was scared at the time“, “Oh it’s disgusting. There are really people who don’t have light on all floors.“, we could read among the comments left under her Instagram publication. Thursday April 11, they could once again be reassured by finding her again in Faced with information on CNews. “Nice to see you again, second day in a row. I’m still alive“, she said at the start of the show, much more able to laugh at the situation.
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