At the start of the year, TF1 is celebrating its 50th anniversary, an event that the channel clearly could not miss.
On January 21, a special documentary titled TF1 50 years together will therefore be broadcast to celebrate this anniversary.
For the occasion, five emblematic personalities of this half-century of television (the journalist Jean-Claude Narcy, the actress Ingrid Chauvin, the weather presenter Évelyne Dhéliat, the host Denis Brogniart and presenter of the weekend news, Anne-Claire Coudray, editor’s note) took part in a question/answer game with our colleagues from Parisian.
Anne-Claire Coudray without filter on the PPDA affair
This time, it was not journalists who interviewed the guests, but readers, who had the opportunity to ask all the questions that were on their minds. Among these, the accusations against Patrick Poivre D’Arvor were naturally addressed.
As a reminder, the former presenter of 8 p.m. on TF1 is accused of sexual assault and rape by a collective of 90 women, with facts dating back several decades and remaining unknown until 2021.
“Since then, we have taken the opposite approach by setting up a supervisory board“, Jean-Claude Narcy first revealed before Anne-Claire Coudray took the floor in turn: “We all fell out of the wardrobe and experienced it as a trauma.“
And to continue: “We wondered about the questioning of the editorial staff, the fact that many people knew and no one said anything. We went back to those years, when we all worked with him. Never the word “viol” has not been pronounced, I can assure you.“
-Robert Namias: “I was never informed of anything”
In an interview given to Figaro last November, Robert Namias, the former director of information between 1996 and 2008, had in fact explained that the management of TF1 had “definitely missed something“.
“We did not imagine for a moment that there could be such crimes committed at TF1“, he indicated before mentioning the enormous “injury that opened in November 2021“.
The businessman then concluded by assuring that he had “notnever been informed of anything” et “If we had any conviction, he should have left the company immediately“.
Faced with accusations, Patrick Poivre D’Arvor, for his part, denies the facts.
