why he suddenly stopped watching TV

For 20 years, he lit up the screens with his love for good food and beautiful words. Before his death, Friday January 10, Jean-Luc Petitrenaud suddenly left television. Here’s why.

Jean-Luc Petitrenaud died at the age of 74, Friday January 10. It died out.”surrounded by loved ones“, declared his children Louise and Antonin Petitrenaud to AFP. They also thanked “the people who loved him so much during these years“. For two decades, the gourmet feasted in front of a conquered public. Great gourmands on France 3 at the end of the 1990s, Gourmet postcard on France 5 in the early 2000s, but especially with its Getaways from Petitrenaudhe had made a special place for himself in the hearts of viewers. A lover of local produce and the good dishes of his grandmother Louise, like his daughter, with whom he had developed a love for cooking, he knew how to charm anyone.

However, in 2017, he left television. A sudden departure which saddened more than one. But a necessary choice for the presenter, who then explained to Le Parisien: “For twenty years I have been working twelve months out of twelve, running, discovering, sewing stories and traveling across France.“An infernal pace, which ended up tiring the Auvergne.”I want to relax physically“, he then confided, “I realized in the last few issues that I was tired.“True to his audience, he mentioned:”I wouldn’t want viewers to feel like I was giving up“, and announced to take a break, a “respiration” before an expected return, but which will never take place.

“Farewell dear Jean-Luc!” : tributes to Jean-Luc Petitrenaud from television stars

Touched by the departure of the one she “loved it very much“, Sophie Davant wanted to pay tribute to Jean-Luc Petitrenaud. On Instagram, she posted a story where she deplored the death of the presenter: “Farewell dear Jean-Luc!“, she wrote, “thank you for sharing with us all your passions, culinary or otherwise.“For his part, Cyril Lignac signed an Instagram publication with these words: “How sad my friend! How I loved our long lunches, our laughs, your joy of living! […] We will miss you.” Denis Brogniart also posted a tribute on the social network. He confided his “sadness to learn of the death of Jean-Luc Petitrenaud“, which he considers to be “a unique storyteller, an enjoyer of life, a man of great tenderness who with a word, a sound of his mouth, a lyrical flight made you hungry and took you with him to the kitchen.“

Article written in collaboration with 6Medias.