8:20 p.m. this Tuesday evening. Anne-Sophie Lapix closes a long page of her diary devoted to the presidential election in the United States from a studio with a view of Time Square, an emblematic place in New York, where France 2 arrived en masse to cover the American election. “Thank you very much Etienne Leenhardt (the head of the foreign policy department of France Télévisions), you stay with me, we'll meet up later, but first we'll take a trip to Paris where Sonia talks about current events in France.
“Sonia” is Sonia Chironi, journalist for the Franceinfo channel, where she presents two hours of current affairs every evening. Since this summer, the 45-year-old presenter has been tested several times at the helm of the France 2 television news. According to our information, this role, Sonia Chironi, will repeat it on numerous occasions in the coming months since she will become very officially the joker of the 20 Hours of the weekend. From the end of year holidays, she will replace Laurent Delahousse during all his holidays. A vacant position since the departure for RTL of Thomas Sotto, who has held these interim positions since 2017.
As we wrote in October, the entire joker team will be the subject of a “vast overhaul”. During the last All Saints' Day holidays, Julien Arnaud, the defector from TF 1, succeeded Karine Baste, as Anne-Sophie Lapix's joker during the week. Behind the scenes, a final replacement is being prepared: Maya Lauqué will be named joker for Julian Bugier's 13 Hours (Monday-Friday) in place of Nathanaël de Rincquesen.
Here again, the journalist was tested at the start of the year over a weekend. She will be able to practice again this Friday when she will present the midday news for the first time. As for Julien Benedetto, he would be the only survivor of the old team and should continue to replace Leïla Kaddour-Boudadi, at 1 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday.
With these changes, France Télévisions intends to rejuvenate and feminize its group of jokers, while TF 1 has just entrusted this role to Jean-Baptiste Boursier at the end of October, who will celebrate his 42nd birthday this weekend.
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