Sunday September 29, Jean-Pierre Foucault was Frédéric Lopez’s guest on the show A Sunday in the countrysidebroadcast on France 2. During this interview, the presenter notably returned to the murder of his father.
He is one of the cult hosts of TF1. Quite an evening, Who wants to make millions, The 100 greatest or even The Celebrity Farm… Jean-Pierre Foucault has been at the helm of some of the most popular shows on the first channel. Since 1995, the presenter has also been the conductor of the Miss France ceremony.
And at 76, he’s not ready to retire. “Some people want me to give up Miss France but no. Next year, I will celebrate my 30th, and as a scoop I am announcing that in 20 years, I will celebrate my 50th!”he confided to Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine in the show C to you.
Jean-Pierre Foucault confides in the murder of his father
Guest of Frédéric Lopez on the show A Sunday in the countrysideSunday September 29, Jean-Pierre Foucault made rare confidences about his childhood. The presenter notably returned to the murder of his father during a business trip to Algeria. “On February 22, 1962, he was taken down in the street with a bullet in the back and a bullet in the neck, we don’t know why”he confided. At only 14 years old, Jean-Pierre Foucault explains that he has become an adult. “Suddenly my heart hardened, I became someone else, including at school”he continued.
The presenter will then start “to act like a clown” in order to avoid “the eternal question: why was your father taken down in the street?”. After this tragedy, he became a ward of the nation. “What hurt me the most in my teenage life was that I received my ward of the nation card and it said ‘death for France’ and an official had crossed out the mention ‘death for France'”he continued. This painful moment will then push the young man to fight to prove to France that he does not need “to be adopted by her”. Touching confidences.
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