Every week Frédéric Lopez receives three guests to come and spend a unique moment in a country house far from the urban hustle and bustle through the show A Sunday in the countryside broadcast on France 2. A place conducive to confidences. This Sunday, November 17, the host of the program received the singer Dave, as well as the Belgian comedian and former winner of France has incredible talent Laura Laune, but also Julian Bugier. The latter then confided in Jacques, his deceased father. “He's a founding character in my life because he's someone I admired a lot and who I also had to take care of because he was someone who was tortured, who had his demons”, he confided with emotion when faced with a childhood photo in which he holds his father by the neck.
The journalist then pointed out that his father “had a special place”. “He was someone who had a certain flamboyance, who was very talented”he added. Fascinated by his father by “his presence”he wanted to be like him. Unfortunately, it was also “someone who had these moments of weakness, of trouble, who was sometimes prone to depression quite significantly.” Julian Bugier also accompanied his father “financially, but that happened much later.” Despite everything, the presenter of the 1 p.m. news on France 2 lived a happy childhood filled with “a lot of happiness”. It was also thanks to his father that he decided to become a journalist.
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Julian Bugier owes his vocation to his father, with whom “it was an adventure”
Julien Bugier, one of the emblematic faces of television news, owes his vocation to his father, Jacques Bugier. This man of letters exercised his profession as a journalist in Blois where he worked for The Central Republicthen for The New Republic, before joining The World. “My parents were divorced, and when I was with my father, it was adventure,” recalled Julian Bugier in 2015, with Liberation, since he regularly accompanied him on the field. “My father has always been a driving force. When you are ambitious, you want to show that you are legitimate to yourself, to others, but especially to your father figure. I always wanted to impress him, as we amaze a girl or her mother He was my example to build me up.he had specified to Ciné Télé Revue, in June 2020. The disappearance of his father in 2013, the year of the birth of his daughter, Gabrielle, deeply upset him, as he admitted to Closer : “I took refuge in work and didn't take enough time off at the time. I regret that.”
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