Who will she think of for her 1st JT?

It is a major turning point for Léa Salamé: the journalist succeeds Anne-Sophie Lapix and is preparing to take the reins of the 8 p.m. newspaper from France 2, an appointment scrutinized by millions of viewers. Accustomed to punchy political interviews and talk-show sets, she launches a challenge that promises to be as exciting as they are. But who will she think about her very first JT, who will be held on September 1?

Léa Salamé: This person to whom she will think about her 1st news … “I am missing”

The 45 -year -old journalist, who spent her summer vacation in Corsica, already knows who she thinks when she is in charge of her very first television news on France 2. “If I have to think of someone at 7:58 p.m., I think I will think of my grandmother. She died but I will think of my father’s mother, who is in my heart“She explained to Paris Match.

The host of What an era! Consider that her grandmother, who was Lebanese by birth, is his Garden Angel: “In any case, I think it is the figure that has been protecting me for years and years. I loved it, she loved me a lot. And I miss her“.

Beirut’s native journalist has never stopped carrying her grandmother in her heart, even after her death. When she presented the in-between Tours debate during the 2022 presidential election, it was also that the partner of Raphaël Glucksmann had in mind. “”Before the credits, I thought of my grandmother, who died. She could never have imagined that I would one day have the debate of the in-between-tours“She explained to Figaro.

Léa Salamé: This famous animator had predicted his future …

If Gabriel’s mother, 8, agreed to take on this new role, she never dreamed of presenting the 8 p.m. news. “”For many journalists starting, the 20 hours is a grail. It was not for me, when I was a young journalist, I had two models: Thierry Ardisson, the Saturday evening box, the mixture of genres, and Anne Sinclair, the big political interview on Sunday evening“She explained to Paris Match.

However, a famous animator, obviously visionary, knew that Léa Salamé would end up taking the reins of the news: “The one who told me all the time that I would finish at 8 p.m. was Laurent Ruquier. And I said to him: ‘But look at me, never life!’ And finally, you see, we are there“.