Laurence Ferrari ( ; born 5 July 1966) is a French

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, best known as a former

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of the TF1 weekday evening news ''Le 20H''."À TF1, Laurence Ferrari va remplacer Patrick Poivre d’Arvor", ''Le Monde'', Guy Duthei
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Retrieved June 13, 2009 She also works for

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sometimes.

Biography

Early life and education

Ferrari was born in

Aix-les-Bains Aix-les-Bains (, ; frp, Èx-los-Bens; la, Aquae Gratianae), locally simply Aix, is a commune in the southeastern French department of Savoie.

Savoie Savoie (; Arpitan: ''Savouè'' or ''Savouè-d'Avâl''; English: ''Savoy'' ) is a department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, Southeastern France. Located in the French Alps, its prefecture is Chambéry. In 2019, Savoie had a population of ...

, the daughter of a former mayor of the city and member of the

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, Gratien Ferrari, of Italian ancestry from

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. She attended the École Française des Attachés de Presse (French School for Press Attachés) in

Lyon Lyon,, ; Occitan: ''Lion'', hist. ''Lionés'' also spelled in English as Lyons, is the third-largest city and second-largest metropolitan area of France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of t ...

and graduated from the

Sorbonne University Sorbonne University (french: Sorbonne Université; la Sorbonne: 'the Sorbonne') is a public research university located in Paris, France. The institution's legacy reaches back to 1257 when Sorbonne College was established by Robert de Sorbon ...

with a Master of 'Communication Politique and Sociale'. She is the eldest of three sisters and an accomplished pianist.

Media career

She started her career in 1986 as a

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at the French

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, AFP, and ''

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''. She also worked at the French language radio station,

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, as a researcher with special responsibility for health policy. She began her television career in 1994 with

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in ''Studio Gabriel'' on

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and thereafter with

Jean-Pierre Pernaut Jean-Pierre Pernaut (; 8 April 1950 – 2 March 2022) was a French news presenter and broadcaster. He was widely known simply by his initials, JPP. Biography Pernaut was born in Amiens, Somme, on 8 April 1950. The regular presenter of station ...

in ''"Combien ça coûte ?"'' on TF1. In 2001 she co-hosted the TF1 Sunday evening magazine ''Sept à Huit'' with her former husband,

Thomas Hugues Thomas Hugues (born 11 May 1966) is a French journalist, producer and television host. Early life He joined the Institut d'Études Politiques of Bordeaux in 1983. During his course, he did an internship for the newspaper ''Sud Ouest''. In 1987, ...

. After her divorce, she moved in 2006 to

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to present the channel's weekly political magazine ''"Dimanche +"'' where she covered the French presidential election of 2007. In June 2008, she became the new anchor of ''"Le 20 Heures de TF1"'' (the flagship TV news programme, which has the highest ratings in Europe), replacing its long-serving anchor

Patrick Poivre d'Arvor Patrick Poivre d'Arvor (PPDA; né Patrick Jean Marcel Poivre, ; born 20 September 1947) is a French TV journalist and writer. He is a household name in France, and nicknamed "PPDA". With over 30 years and in excess of 4,500 editions of televis ...

, and taking over the weekday programme on 25 August 2008. Ferrari incited controversy in 2010 by wearing a veil to interview

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ( fa, محمود احمدی‌نژاد, Mahmūd Ahmadīnežād ), born Mahmoud Sabbaghian ( fa, محمود صباغیان, Mahmoud Sabbāghyān, 28 October 1956),

. Ferrari presented her final 8pm newscast for TF1 on 31 May 2012, a day after announcing her resignation from the network in order to join

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Humanitarian work

Laurence Ferrari has been an ambassador for

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since November 2003. In March 2007, along with other famous personalities including journalists

Claire Chazal Claire Chazal () (born 1 December 1956) is a French journalist, romance writer, and former director of news at a national television station, France 2. She had been the weekend news anchor at TF1 beginning in 1991, and gave her final broadcast at ...

Marie Drucker Marie Drucker (born 3 December 1974) is a French journalist, author, television and radio personality. Early life The daughter of Jean Drucker, a French television executive, and a niece of Michel Drucker, a television journalist, she was educa ...

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Béatrice Schönberg Béatrice Schönberg (née Béatrice Szabo; 9 May 1953) is a French television journalist. She anchored the newscasts on La Cinq from 1987 to 1992 and on France 2 from 1997 to 2007. She was formerly married to the musician and composer Claude ...

and

Mélissa Theuriau Mélissa Theuriau (; born 18 July 1978) is a French journalist and news anchor for M6. She studied journalism and became a television news presenter. She is the former anchor and co-editor in chief of '' Zone interdite'' on French TV. Early car ...

, she sponsored the La Rose Marie Claire project with

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to help educate young girls.

Private life

In October 2007, Laurence Ferrari and Thomas Hugues separated on friendly terms, after 14 years of marriage (since 1993) and two children (a son and a daughter). Partners since 2008, she and the violinist,

Renaud Capuçon Renaud Capuçon (born 27 January 1976) is a French classical violinist. Since late 2016 he has been teaching at the Royal Northern College of Music. Biography Capuçon was born in Chambéry on 27 January 1976. He entered the conservatory in ...

, married in July 2009 in the

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and have one son, who was born in November 2010.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ferrari, Laurence 1966 births Living people University of Paris alumni People from Aix-les-Bains French television presenters French television journalists French people of Italian descent People of Emilian descent