Since Thursday October 24, 2024, Pascal Praud has been off the air at CNews. After presenting his erre pros between 9 a.m. and 10:30 a.m., he enigmatically told his loyal viewers: “We'll probably see each other again next week…”.
Pascal Praud bereaved by the death of his father Roger
A few hours later, the reason for this sudden withdrawal was revealed. The host was mourned by the death of his father Roger, who died at the age of 90. He hastened to join his relatives in Nantes, while TNT channel 16 asked Eliot Deval to replace him at the presentation of Time for the pros.
On October 27, Pascal Praud broke the silence through his weekly column in The Sunday Journal. “Our family was waiting for this death. I thought I was prepared, according to a stupid formula that people say to convince themselves that everything will be fine. I was wrong,” he wrote while indicating that his father had been living in a nursing home in Nantes for a year.
He suffered a stroke in 2005. “A stroke which disrupted his body and his mind. He was never the same again. My mother became his nurse, his horizon and sometimes his painkiller (…) My father did not say a word the last fourteen days of his life. He received the sacrament of the sick. He was sleeping only once, when my daughter Morgane kissed him. He came out of sleep for a few seconds. taken on Sunday October 13th to no longer feed it or hydrate it. I write these words which twist my heart.confided Pascal Praud while specifying that, in agreement with the doctors, “rapid and deep sedation” was implemented until death.
A return with sobriety in Time for the pros on CNews
Two days after his father's funeral, the host signed his return to the presentation of Time for the pros this Thursday, October 31. He chose to do it soberly. “Hello everyone and welcome to Europe 1 this morning, happy to see you until 9:30 a.m. and until 10:30 a.m. on CNews”he declared before revealing the summary of his show. Shortly before 9:30 a.m., Thomas Isle – presenter of Culture Media between 9:30 a.m. and 11 a.m. on Europe 1 – wanted to discuss the return of the host during their handover.
“I see that you are coming back in great shape, it gives me great pleasure to see you again”he declared to Pascal Praud who replied: “JI don't know if I'm in great shape… I think I translate what everyone thinks. These people who listen to us no doubt agree with what I say.”. A remark in reference to comments he had just made on air. In the first minutes of the show, he castigated that Yassine Belattar, whom he described as “returned to justice”is part of the delegation accompanying Emmanuel Macron's state trip to Morocco.
At the end of are Pro HourPascal Praud wanted to send a message of thanks to CNews viewers. “It was a pleasure to meet you this morning. I would like to thank the many people who have sent me messages of affection in recent hours“he told them in front of the camera before handing over the antenna to Jean-Marc Morandini.
