NATHALIE MARQUAY. Died this Wednesday, March 2, Jean-Pierre Pernaut had married Nathalie Marquay in 2007. The former Miss France had extensively recounted their love at first sight which occurred behind the scenes of a famous TV show.
[Mis à jour le 2 mars 2022 à 19h28] Jean-Pierre Pernaut died on Wednesday March 2, 2022 from cancer. The former star of 13 Hours of TF1 had two women in his life, including Nathalie Marquay whom he married in 2007, five years after they met during the Miss France show in 2002. Jean-Pierre Pernaut and Nathalie Marquay were then members of the jury of the program broadcast on TF1.
The former Miss France and Jean-Pierre Pernaut had returned many times since to this love at first sight, their relationship and their age difference, 17 years separating them, Nathalie Marquay evoking her “Prince Charming” to designate Jean- Pierre Pernaut. The latter had also entrusted his memories of this famous evening which had changed their lives. “Geneviève (de Fontenay, then president of the Miss France committee, editor’s note) told me ‘I’m going to put my ray of sunshine next to you’, there was an empty seat between Robert Namias (director of TF1) and me, arrives an unpleasant, vulgar girl, who sits, who had a scarf I don’t know what she was wearing but she was not a Miss. I was angry because I was thinking if that’s the radius of Geneviève de Fontenay’s sun, there are clouds, and Nathalie arrives and says to the young girl ‘it’s my place’ the other got up and Nathalie sat down and we started laughing about that”, then told Jean-Pierre Pernaut in a documentary broadcast by the C8 channel.
The first reaction of Nathalie Marquay after the death of Jean-Pierre Pernaut
Discreet for several weeks on social networks, Nathalie Marquay posted a post on her Instagram account this Wednesday, March 2, 2022, a black square without caption via a publication posted a few minutes after the announcement of the death of the former journalist presenter of TF1 .
Nathalie Marquay married to Jean-Pierre Pernaut
Jean-Pierre Pernaut and Nathalie Marquay were married on June 23, 2007 to Nathalie Marquay, more than five years after their meeting. The couple subsequently had two children, Lou and Tom born in 2002 and 2003. Before marrying Nathalie Marquay, Jean-Pierre Pernaut had two children from a first marriage with Dominique Bonnet.
When did Nathalie Marquay announce Jean-Pierre Pernaut’s cancer?
At the end of 2021, in the program TPMP the wife of Jean-Pierre Pernaut, Nathalie Marquay, revealed that her husband had been operated on for cancer in July 2021, but that a relapse had been noted, his other lung being affected. “We won against the prostate and against the second lung. So I don’t see why we wouldn’t win. Cancer does not mean death,” she assured then.
When was Nathalie Marquay Miss France? His short biography
Born in 1967 in the North, Nathalie Marquay was elected Miss Alsace in 1986 then Miss France in 1987. Her election was then the first to be broadcast live on television and remained a little longer in the annals of the competition during the announcement of the final classification. The sequence has been the delight of TV bloopers for many years because of the now legendary anger of the presenter Guy Lux towards Céleste, the man who announced the results and got his brushes a little tangled. Becoming Miss France 1987, Nathalie Marquay took part in the Miss Universe and Miss World elections before starting a career on television, first as an extra or for minor roles in AB sitcoms such as Le miel et les abeilles, Les filles next door or The Holidays of Love. She also plays a role during several seasons of the series Sous le soleil and participates in various TV games. In 2007, she married Jean-Pierre Pernaut with whom she had two children, Lou born in 2002 and Tom born in 2003.
Natalie Marquay and Daniel Ducruet: the denial of a relationship in the show La Ferme Celebrities
In 2005, Nathalie Marquay participated in season 2 of the reality show La Ferme Celebrities, broadcast on TF1, the channel for which her husband works. She then plays for the Ti’Toine association and ranks 4th on the show. But from this experience, the public has especially retained his rapprochement with another candidate, Daniel Ducruet, ex-husband of Stéphanie of Monaco. “After a month of Farm Celebrities, there were noises outside, which said that we were living an adventure”, will tell Nathalie Marquay in a documentary broadcast on C8 at the time of the departure of Jean-Pierre Pernaut from the News from TF1.
The rumor swells to the point that Jean-Pierre Pernaut ends up calling his wife: “He asked me to leave the show. And there, I ask him: ‘But what’s going on?’ And he said to me: ‘I can’t tell you anything but you have to get out of the show. […] It was complicated especially since it was said that Jean-Pierre was the king of cuckolds. The king of the news was cuckolded, so it was difficult for Jean-Pierre to go to work.” Nathalie Marquay refused to leave the show. After the end of the season, the couple filed several lawsuits. “With the money , we reimbursed our lawyer and the rest of the money, we gave it to the association, So in the end, it’s a blessing in disguise. Thanks to this money, they were able to buy a machine for research against childhood cancer”, will judge afterwards the ex-Miss France.
Nathalie Marquay at the cinema: in which films has she played?
In addition to television, Nathalie Marquay has made a few short appearances in the cinema, notably in the film 3 Zéro by Fabien Onteniente, released in 2001. In 2014, the magazine Ici Paris noted that Jean-Pierre Pernaut’s wife had also filmed in a film “The Black Widow”, released in 1994 in which the ex-Miss France appears naked.