Jean-Pierre Pernaut, flagship presenter of TF1, died on Wednesday March 2 at the age of 71. The journalist leaves behind his wife Nathalie Marquay.
The former TF1 television news presenter Jean-Pierre Pernaut announced in November 2021 that he was suffering from lung cancer. The journalist died on Wednesday March 2, 2022 at the age of 71, he had been in a coma for some time. He leaves behind Nathalie Marquay, actress, television host and also ex-Miss France. She was elected beauty queen in 1987 after having been Miss Alsace the previous year. She was also Miss World’s sixth runner-up in 1987.
They met on the evening of the Miss France 2002 election and, since then, have never left each other. If Nathalie Marquay was his wife for more than twenty years, she is also and above all known for her career as an actress. Indeed, we have already seen it in many theatrical productions. After a training in dramatic art, it is in 2010 that she begins at the theater in the play A perfect couple, well almost!. Nathalie Marquay is also an author since she co-wrote, two years later, the play Matignon trap with Jean-Pierre Pernaut and Jean-Claude Islert. Multicap, she also played the main role. This is the beginning of a great collaboration with her husband Jean-Pierre Pernault since they will also co-write, together, the play Presidential regime, in 2016, where a role is, once again, entrusted to Nathalie Marquay. Her last appearance on the boards dates from the year 2020 where she starred in the play Double-dealing at the Théâtre du Gymnase in Paris.
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But Nathalie Marquay is also a committed woman. In 2003, she became the godmother of the Ti’toine association which fights against cancer. An association that she, moreover, defended in season 2 of the show The celebrity farm. In addition to this association which is close to her heart, she is also godmother of the K collective and the Ribbon of Hope which fight against cancer.
Faced with her commitments and the lung cancer from which her husband Jean-Pierre Pernault died, Nathalie Marquay is very sensitive to this subject of society. In addition, for several years, the former Miss France suffered from leukemia. For the time being, Nathalie Marquay has not yet spoken on the death of Jean-Pierre Pernaut.