In the columns of TV Star Monday January 6, 2025, Karine Baste returned to her transfer of power with Julien Arnaud at the helm of the 8 p.m. show on France 2. The former joker of Anne-Sophie Lapix left her seat to the former TF1 presenter to sail towards new horizons on France 5.
Since 2020, France 2 viewers have known Karine Baste for her role as joker on the 8 p.m. show on France 2. But it is now on France 5, in the new show It’s not that farthat the former understudy of Anne-Sophie Lapix evolves from this start of the 2025 school year. No more announcing the news of the world every evening on the first public channel: the 42-year-old journalist has handed over the reins of the evening news to Julien Arnaud, 50 years old, came straight from TF1 where he played the competing JT, replacing Gilles Bouleau. A game of musical chairs that the host of Martinican origin welcomed very well, as she assured in the columns of TV Star, on newsstands Monday January 6, 2025. “It’s a page that turns for the 8 p.m. but I’m delighted for Julien Arnaud. We get along very well. I wish him to be happy there. For my part, I’m coping very well with what’s happening to me “, she declared, while her magazine dedicated to Overseas will be broadcast from Monday to Friday at 4:55 p.m.
Karine Baste assures that she is “neither frustrated nor disappointed”
In a press release at the beginning of December 2024, France Télévisions confirmed the recruitment of Julien Arnaud within the public audiovisual group, at the helm of the France 2 newspapers – replacing Anne-Sophie Lapix –, in addition to his new duties as co-host of Telematin. “It didn’t happen to me overnight. There were discussions very early on with the information department. Nothing was imposed on me”informed her predecessor Karine Baste to TV Star. And to add: “That’s why I’m not frustrated or disappointed or sad”. As the person concerned specifies, France 2 offered her to embody its new show It’s not that far before announcing the arrival of Julien Arnaud to his former position.
Karine Baste twists the rumors
Neither tensions nor vexations between the two information professionals. “I am, on the contrary, deeply happy and honored by the trust placed in me to embody this program which resembles me and which I find ambitious”, concluded Karine Baste on the subject in the columns of TV Star. Comments that she reiterated to TV 7 dayson newsstands Monday January 6, 2025. Asked how she experienced her departure from the 8 p.m. show on France 2, the new presenter of France 5 brushed off: “Very good, contrary to what has been written in some media.”
