On television, it can happen that the presenters make mistakes, as was the case for Julian Bugier on the set of “Télématin” this Tuesday, May 8, 2024. Traveling to Marseille as part of the arrival of the Olympic flame, the 43-year-old journalist had the chance to interview Thomas Pesquet. But while he was chatting with the famous astronaut, Thomas Sotto’s sidekick made a blunder.
“ You are a good loser or a bad loser“, he asked his guest. To which the latter responded honestly: “ I am a very bad loser“. And Julian Bugier added: “ I’m asking you the question because I had the answer behind it. I remember what you said about the Rugby World Cup when we were robbed by the South Africans“.
It is by wanting to evoke the Springboks that the presenter’s tongue forked. Some heard the forty-year-old utter the word “ Arab“, while others ironically assumed he meant ” peanut« , « arabesque ” or ” artichoke“.
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The most informed, for their part, are convinced that the journalist was referring to “ referees“. Indeed, Thomas Pesquet had indeed fulminated against the France-South Africa arbitration. “ Rugby is a sport that is usually played 15 against 15.“, he wrote on his X account, formerly Twitter. “ No, but in addition to being robbed, you have to deal with frustrated guys who don’t know the rules, that’s fine there.“.
“ Nobody spoke in Belgium when France won?“, he added in reference to the football match between France and Belgium in the semi-final of the 2018 World Cup in Russia. “ Everyone said it was ‘a great match with two good teams’? And yet nothing to see in terms of arbitration. No kidding. »
One thing is certain, it is that whatever Julian Bugier wanted to say, the sequence is creating a buzz on the Web.
