Frédéric Lopez (born 4 April 1967 in Pau) is a French

television host A television presenter (or television host, some become a "television personality") is a person who introduces or hosts television programs, often serving as a mediator for the program and the audience. It is common for people who garnered fam ...

. He currently works for

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on which he presents some shows. He began on radio in 1991 on Autoroute Info, the first traffic information radio. In 1992, he worked for Télé Lyon Métropole (TLM), the channel on which he debuted on television. There he hosted talk shows and documentaries. From 1995 to 1996, he hosted ''Le Mag de l'Information'' on LM1, with

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. Then he worked on LCI, where he was special envoy and correspondent. On the same channel, he led the magazine ''Cinéma''. In 1999, he made several appearances in Olivier Schatzky's film ''Mr Naphatali'', with

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. In 2000, he presented ''Alors heureux ?'' and ''Fallait y penser'' on France 2. Then in 2004, in addition to France 2 and his program ''Comme au cinéma'', he joined Match TV where he led a news magazine. In 2005, he created the program ''

Rendez-vous en terre inconnue ''Rendez-vous en terre inconnue'' (formerly ''En terre inconnue'') is a French television program broadcast first on France 5 and then on the France 2 network. It was hosted by Frédéric Lopez (who is also the originator of the concept) for year ...

''. From September 2008, he has hosted on France 2 ''Panique dans l'oreillette''. In 2017, Lopez publicly

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as gay. In 2022, a French book demonstrated that Frédéric Lopez had lied on public television France2 in a documentary about a murder (''Mille et une vies'', Rachel Jouvet, November 24, 2016). Frédéric Lopez claimed that the murderer of Rachel Jouvet's father's first name was Mathieu, when his real name was Abdourahmani. Frédéric Lopez made people believe that the murderer was a French Christian, when in fact he was a Muslim foreigner furious that his wife was eating pork. In his book, Jean-Pierre Steinhofer uses the trial transcript to demonstrate the lie.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Lopez, Frederic 1967 births Living people People from Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques French radio presenters French television presenters French people of Spanish descent French LGBTQ broadcasters French gay men Officiers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres