Simple and modest farewells despite a few tears of emotion: Joker of the 1:00 p.m. TF1 for 26 years, Jacques Legros, 74, presented his last televised newspaper on Friday, before giving way to Isabelle Ithurburu in mid-July.
“I would like to thank you all for these beautiful years in your company,” he said to the editorial staff, who had prepared a subject on his career to close the newspaper. “Thank you also to you, dear viewers, for your loyalty, your complicity,” he continued in refreshing tears.
Like a torchlight, Jacques Legros was joined on the set by the one who will succeed him as a joker from the first 1:00 p.m. of France.
“Thank you for the welcome, thank you for the benevolence (…) You woven an incredible link with the French,” said Isabelle Ithurburu, also moved.
His elder told him an anecdote on a viewer who felt like lunch with him because she was watching her newspapers: “That’s the 1:00 p.m.,” he concluded.
A joker replaces the holder of a newspaper during his holidays. Since 2021, the 1:00 pm news from TF1 has been presented during the week by Marie-Sophie Lacarrau, who succeeded the emblematic Jean-Pierre Pernaut, which remained at the helm for 33 years and died in March 2022.
“Two women from the South, Marie-Sophie Lacarrau and you, succeed (…) to two men from the North,” launched Mr. Legros, a native of Pas-de-Calais, at La Paloise Isabelle Ithurburu.
Jacques Legros presented his first 1:00 p.m. as Joker by Jean-Pierre Pernaut on July 19, 1999. He started on TV in 1994 on LCI, the TF1 Info channel. Previously, on the radio, he had gone through Radio France, notably for the creation of France Info in 1987, and RTL.
On TF1, he also co -prone entertainment programs, such as “full eyes” or “the 30 most extraordinary stories”.
For his latest newspaper, he made subjects on the election of Pope Léon XIV, the weekend weather, the commemoration by Russia of the 80th anniversary of victory over Nazi Germany or the best sandwich in France (he is in Metz).
On the rival channel, France 2, the presenter of 1:00 pm, Julian Bugier, sent a “friendly salvation” to Jacques Legros at the end of his news: “We wish him good luck and lots of beautiful things for the future”.
Audience leader on its niche, the 1:00 pm news in TF1, which relies on proximity and the regions, attracted 4.4 million viewers on average from Monday to Sunday in April, according to mediammetry figures.
The JT from 1:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. of the weekend are presented by Anne-Claire Coudray, with Audrey Crespo-Mara as Joker.
