Who is Adrien Rohard who replaces Valérie Maurice in “Télématin” on France 2?

The public service program which awakens the French loses one of its emblematic figures. Valérie Maurice, Madame Météo, leaves “Télématin”, according to our colleagues at Parisian .

Since 2016, Valérie Maurice has been calling the shots on the France 2 morning show. Before that, she was the anchor for around twenty years, between 1993 and 2016. The 60-year-old presenter, who is also an actress , “is preparing to take a sabbatical year away from the air”. She is replaced this Monday, December 9 by Adrien Rohard, who was already officiating at the end of the week in “Télématin”.

A journalist “with an offbeat view of current events” who will tell “every day stories that we haven’t really heard anywhere else”explain Flavie Flament and Julien Arnaud. The duo of hosts took over from Marie Portolano and Thomas Sotto in September as hosts from Monday to Thursday.

His first column “In the eye of Adrien” was devoted this morning to the president of Peru Dina Boluarte who hid a cosmetic surgery operation on her nose. A case “that doesn’t smell good” because it calls into question his political authority.

Europe 1 and NRJ 12

Adrien Rohard started in 2009 on Europe 1 in “Le Grand Direct” by Jean-Marc Morandini who then hired him in 2012 on the NRJ12 channel. He deciphers media news with humor, even if it means making a few people cringe.

In 2016, he joined the France Télévisions group. First the Franceinfo channel then France 2 for “Télématin” from 2023. “I worked with news and entertainment media, but also general channels. I have the impression and the feeling that all these experiences have completed each other.summarized Adrien Rohard in an interview given to The Republican East .

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