After only a year on France 2 to present Télématin And the 8 pm JT as an Anne-Sophie Lapix joker, Julien Arnaud decided to join BFM TV. And according to a small confidence made at Télé 7 Jours, France 2 did not release the big artillery to hold it back.
The passage of Julien Arnaud on France Télévisions was only short -lived. The journalist, who left TF1 in 2024 to present Télématin With Flavie Flament and become the new Joker of the 8 p.m., finally decided to sail to new horizons a few months later. He announced in early July that he was going to join BFM TV.
How France 2 tried to retain Julien Arnaud
Questioned by TV 7 daysJulien Arnaud revealed the reaction of France 2 when he left. He explained that the public group had tried to hold it but without having really prepared the offer on the table. “At the end of June, I had some proposals made in the precipitation. They would have needed to be deepened”he explained. These proposals did not make him change his rifle. “La proposal from Fabien Namias (the director general of BFM TV) with whom I was in contact since March was too tempting “added the journalist who will take the orders, on the Info channel, of the 10 am-Midi tranche. He will thus have a major meeting baptized The big direct of Julien Arnaud in which he “dwill score all the news surrounded by experts “. “As the elections approached, I wanted to go back to hot news, react to events and find the adrenaline of the direct “.
The record broken by Julien Arnaud before his departure
While he had to leave the two at the end of the summer, Julien Arnaud advanced his departure for several weeks. “I found it more consistent to leave at the end of July. Especially since my vacation in June was agitated because of my transfer”told us the one who wanted “find calm “ Before his new professional adventure. And it was on a beautiful note that the journalist said goodbye to the viewers of France 2 since his last news made the best audience of the year by bringing together more than 3.5 million viewers.
