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Jean-Pierre Foucault, here alongside Sophie Thalmann and Laure Belleville, in December 2024, near Poitiers.
TELEVISION – Miss France without Jean-Pierre Foucault? It’s not for now. This Tuesday, January 7, the unbeatable presenter of the beauty contest made a point of denying on the microphone of Europe 1 a rumor that had been brewing for several days about his possible departure from the beauty contest.
“It’s shooting early this year!” It is announced that I will stop at the beginning of January, he quipped during his appearance on the show Culture Mediathis Tuesday. I have some very bad news to tell my detractors: I think I will be in charge of the 31st (edition). I’m even sure of it. »
The information was not confirmed by the production of TF1, nor by the teams of the Miss France company, whose management changed a year ago. It is in fact no longer piloted by Alexia Laroche-Joubert, but by Frédéric Gilbert.
The Clément Garin rumor
Jean-Pierre Foucault’s comments cut short the false information launched by a blogger named Clément Garin, the same one who relayed a suspicious list of names of actors and directors potentially accused of sexual assault during the last Cannes Film Festival. .
On X (formerly Twitter), this blogger actually assured, Monday January 6, that Jean-Pierre Foucault would no longer host the show Miss France from this year, but that he would continue to be present in the system. The man also certified that the production did not want to announce it during the last ceremony so as not to short-circuit the smooth running of the evening. Which was therefore denied by the person concerned on Europe 1.
Last December, Jean-Pierre Foucault celebrated his 30th birthday at the presentation of the beauty contest. A tribute was paid to him, and he received his own scarf from Miss, with tears in his eyes.
TF1 ejects Gladiators
Did he imagine he would stay this long? “ We never imagine that we will do it for 30 years. I could never have thought that 30 times, I would arrive the day before a Miss election, that I would look at the young girls, that I would try to make my prediction. I’ve been wrong for 30 years.”he quipped in the columns of Parisiana few days before the last election was held.
Although it is therefore likely that we will find him again in December of this year on TF1, the channel has nevertheless made the decision to eject from the prime time slot another show of which he had just taken the reins: Gladiators. Faced with falling audiences, the next three issues of this new game will be broadcast in the second and third parts of the evening.
A failure that the 77-year-old host wanted to put into perspective. “ You know, as they say, plants help you move forward, he commented, still on the microphone of Europe 1. So the most important thing is to have more success than plants. Which seems to be my case. »
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