Simple and modest goodbye Despite some tears of emotion: Joker of 1:00 PM TF1 for 26 years, Jacques Legros, 74, presented his last television newspaper on Friday, before giving way to Isabelle Ithurburu in mid -July.
“I would like to thank everyone for these beautiful years in their company,” he told Editorial staff that he had prepared a subject in his career to close the newspaper. “Thanks also to you, dear spectators, for your loyalty, your complicity,” he continued with refreshing tears.
Like a torch passage, Jacques Legros joined the set that will happen as a joker of the first 1 pm of France. “Thanks for the welcome, thanks for the benevolence (…) he wove an incredible link with the French,” said Isabelle Ithurburu, he also moved.
His old man told him an anecdote about a spectator who felt like lunch with him because he was looking at his newspapers: “That is 1 PM, preserve it,” he concluded.
Since 1999
A Joker replaces the head of a newspaper during his vacation. Since 2021, the news of 1:00 PM of TF1 have been presented during the week by Marie-Sophie Lacarrau, who happened to the emblematic Jean-Pierre Pernaut, who remained at the helm for 33 years and died in March 2022.
“Two women from the South, Marie-Sophie Lacarrau and you, are successful (…) to two men from the north,” said Jacques Legros, native to Pas-de-Calais, in Paloise Isabelle Ithurburu.
Jacques Legros presented his first 1:00 pm as Joker of Jean-Pierre Pernaut on July 19, 1999. He began on television in 1994 in LCI, the information channel TF1. Previously, on the radio, it had passed through Radio France, especially for the creation of France information in 1987, and RTL.
In TF1, also CO -present entertainment programs, such as Eyes EITHER The 30 most extraordinary stories.
From the Pope to the best sandwich in France
For his last newspaper, he made subjects in the election of Pope Leo XIV, the weekend climate, Russia commemoration of the 80th anniversary of victory over Nazi Germany or the best sandwich in France (in Metz).
Audience leader in his niche, the 1 PM The news of TF1, which focuses on proximity and regions, attracted 4.4 million viewers on average from Monday to Sunday in April, according to the figures of mediametry.
The JT of the 1 PM and 8 pm of the weekend are presented by Anne-Claire Coudray, with Audrey Crespo-Mara as Joker.
Source: BFM TV
