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The emblematic host of TF1 has once again spoken about the brutal disappearance of Marcel, his father, killed in Algiers by two bullets in the back. But also on the months and years which followed this assassination.
“I hope these aren’t going to be too difficult questions.”confided Jean-Pierre Foucault to Isabelle Ithurburu ahead of the interview. Indeed, this Saturday January 18, on the occasion of the portrait of the week of “50’Inside”, the emblematic host of the French audiovisual landscape lent himself to the journalist’s “questions/answers”. And if the latter addressed the place of the host in the Miss France program, his state of health or even his rhythm of life between Paris and Carry-le-Rouet, she also ventured on the painful subject of assassination of his father.
Indeed, Jean-Pierre Foucault recently confided – in an interview given to Frédéric Lopez during the program “Un Dimanche à la Campagne” broadcast on France 2 – that he had lost his father at the age of 14 in tragic circumstances. “We lived in Marseille. My father had an import-export company and he had a branch in Algiers. He went there for two days to check the accounting, says my mother, and he got shot twice in the back.”recalled the 77-year-old man. “No one knows why, he was not in politics, he was simply a trader.”
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Having knowledge of this tragedy, Isabelle Ithurburu chose to question him about his life after the death of his father. “How do we get back up? It’s complicated… I owe my career to him.”he initially said before explaining the reasons. “I had enough of being told in class: “So how come your father was murdered?” And so I started to clown, I started to express myself and it was, in a way, professional training for me. So they no longer asked me this terrible question but they asked me to make them laugh.
The host of “Sacred Evening” or “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” explained, looking back over sixty years, being where he is today in part thanks to his father and his sudden death. “I think about it every day, I know that he is there and that he guides me,” he said with a smile on his lips. “I think he would be happy”he shared, remembering a phrase he frequently heard from his parents: “What are we going to do with him?” “Until the end of the first part of my studies, I was quite brilliant but I repeated my sixth form. So that was a terrible tragedy. I think he would be happy because he would have seen that I was still able to get through it despite everything.”
His mother, Paula, who died in 2008, was able to see the successful presenter that her son had become. “My mom was very proud. I even suppose that she went to the hairdresser on the evenings of broadcasts to watch from home and to make her look beautiful, etc.he remembered with affection. “She was very, very happy to be Jean-Pierre’s mother. And then also towards his friends.”
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