In the first episode of “The Island”, broadcast on M6 Tuesday January 7, 2025, Nathalie Pernaut burst into tears at the mention of her husband Jean-Pierre Pernaut, who died almost three years ago. “It’s hard to grieve,” she revealed, hoping that the survival show would help her.
It will soon be three years since Jean-Pierre Pernaut died of cancer at the age of 71. A drama that Nathalie Marquay-Pernaut always has difficulty overcoming. And that’s precisely why she agreed to participate in the show “The Island”. In the first episode, broadcast on M6 on Tuesday January 7, the former Miss France was questioned by Loury Lag, the explorer who replaces Mike Horn at the presentation of the show, on the reasons for her presence on the island. Thai food from Ko Tarutao.
“If I’m here, it’s because it’s difficult to mourn my husband… Just talking about it makes me want to cry,” explained Nathalie Marquay-Pernaut, unable to hold back her tears. And to continue: “I think a lot about my children and I want them to be happy. I have completely forgotten myself and I feel like I will never be able to go back to the way I was with my man. » For her, the experience of surviving in hostile terrain is more than a challenge, almost a therapy.
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An “important” experience for Nathalie Marquay-Pernaut
“I think that here, it will help me a lot, to have nothing, and that spiritually it will be very important for me,” confided the mother of Lou and Tom Pernaut. For ten days, Nathalie Marquay and the nine other candidates from “The Island” – including the other Miss Delphine Wespiser, the ex-footballer Sidney Govou, the boxer Lucie Bertaud and the second-hand dealer Julien Cohen – will have to cross the Thai jungle and survive alone in the wilderness. Quite a program.
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Nathalie Marquay and Jean-Pierre Pernaut met in 2001, during the Miss France election – won by Sylvie Tellier. It was love at first sight between them. Miss France 1987 and the news presenter got married in 2007, and had two children together, Lou (22 years old) and Tom (21 years old).
