He is everywhere, on all fronts. TV, radio, newspapers: even at the start of the school year, it is difficult to miss Pascal Praud, so much so that his media presence is preponderant. To the point that some might believe that it is endowed with ubiquitythose who are unaware, for example, that Pro Timebroadcast from 9 a.m. to 10:37 a.m. on CNews, sees its first part, from 9 a.m. to 9:30 a.m., retransmitted simultaneously on Europe 1.
It is also on this channel that, as soon as his show ended on CNews, where he found himself in tears a few days ago, he took the microphone again to host, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., Pascal Praud and youbefore returning to the TV for Pro Time 2.
As for the press, every week he writes a one-page column in The Sunday Journal. But when this man, who celebrates his 60th birthday on September 9is he resting? The real question, in fact, would rather be where.
Before answering it, it is appropriate to look back at his career in order to better understand how the journalist that only football fans knew about ten years ago became a key figure in the news…
At the beginning, he had clearly given priority to sport since at the end of the 80s, he said The World in a long portrait dedicated to him in September 2023, he had preferred to leave the benches of the Higher School of Journalism (ESJ) from Paris to seize the opportunity offered to him by the TF1 sports department, which had just been privatized, to cover the Olympic Games in Calgary, Canada.
Pascal Praud: “I was offensive, I wanted to belong to this world”
The young man in a hurry did not hesitate. “I arrived in the morning, in the evening I was on air. Today, it would be impossible. I was very lucky, but I was offensive. I wanted to belong to this world.”
He quickly entered this world by joining the team of Telefoot. A dream job for the young journalist, which allowed him to cover the biggest events in this sport from all corners of the planet. “For the World Cup in Italy in 1990,” he remembered in The World, “I was 25 years old and I was staying at the Parco dei Principi, a five-star hotel, with Thierry Roland and Jean-Michel Larqué. The life of a sports journalist is extraordinary.” Extraordinary, but not enough. “He walked the football fields, enthusiastic, but wanted to be someone else, and he is becoming someone else today.”confided his friend, the filmmaker Fabien Onteniente, to Parisian in 2020.
Pascal Praud had already taken a tangent in 2014, when, alongside his activities in sport, he had a daily column on RTL: The Praud of information. Déjà, he was playing with his name on the title of a show. He has never stopped since… The news, he has become one of the leading figures, sometimes even a very noisy figure…
The secret to his recovery: the daily nap
More This omnipresence has a cost, that of work. To be at Pro Timethe journalist must get up… early: 5:45 a.m. exactly, every morning, to do what all journalists do before going on air. Read the press, prepare the subjects, the transitions, plan the program’s schedule, that is to say, define the program’s menu exactly by timing all the sections to the second… A job to be done several times, since he is at the head of several programs. But what is his secret to overcoming his audiovisual marathons that sometimes drive him off the rails?
It can be summed up in two words: nap. After having lunch at the Europe 1 canteenas he still does every lunchtime as confirmed by Purepeople One of his colleagues, Pascal Praud, takes a little nap. Not just anywhere… He has repeated it several times in interviews: “Forty minutes of napping in the parking lot lying in my car with a mask and earplugs” he let go at Parisian in 2021. A way of his own to recharge his batteries. A somewhat spartan practice, which does not necessarily sum up an existence, which is rather comfortable in other respects…
Because by realizing his dream of becoming an essential media personality, Pascal Praud has undeniably succeeded in life. According to Closerthis success is accompanied by financial success. According to our colleagues who published the information in April 2023, The journalist is said to have switched between RTL and Europe 1 for a seven-figure annual income.. If we add CNews and the JDD, there is no doubt that he is safe from need.
Pascal Praud lives in a neighborhood of ministries and upper middle class
Every evening, Pascal Praud returns to a pleasant apartment “near the Invalides, in a district of ministries and upper middle class”wrote The World in his portrait. In the same article, our colleagues also mentioned the fashion tastes of the former FC Nantes boss, who sometimes changed his look. In this case, he likes the suits, which he would have tailor-made at Hartwood… A house whose services are not cheap since it is almost impossible to obtain one for less than 1000 euros if we believe the site dandy-magazine.com.
Happy at work, Pascal Praud is also happy in his personal life. Even if he lives a long-distance love with his partner, Catherine Bancarel, who lives in Charente-Maritime, where she works as a HR Director of the Nantes football clubhe often meets her in Paris, especially during big events like Roland-Garros. They also regularly go out to the theater and of course go to see football matches together.
And if Catherine is not there (and even if they have now grown up after one of them overcame serious problems in her youth), Pascal Praud knows that he can count on the support of his four daughters: Morgane, Tiphaine, Faustine and Lou-Elise, born from a previous union. In short, he is now a journalist and a fulfilled father. Even in his car, Pascal Praud can sleep soundly…
