Jean-Jacques Bourdin announced to Le Figaro that he was going to resume his political talks in the morning of Sud Radio in the coming days. The journalist, sacked last year from BFMTV and RMC after accusations of sexual assault which he has always disputed, will return on August 28 to the exercise of interviews on the radio where he has officiated for a year. “The political interview, the face-to-face is my DNA,” he said in an interview published Wednesday, August 23.
“I will remain incisive, demanding, direct to get clear answers, that’s what I like,” he continued. His new political meeting will be broadcast from 8:30 a.m. to 9 a.m. during the morning, presented by Patrick Roger. He will be in direct competition with the show Face-to-face, presented by his former colleague Apolline de Malherbe at the same time on BFMTV-RMC.
Before his dismissal in June 2022 by the Altice group, parent company of BFMTV and RMC, Jean-Jacques Bourdin was the star presenter of RMC’s morning show for more than twenty years. Launched in 2001, the 8:30 am morning face-to-face of “Bourdin”, mainly with political figures, had revived the career of the journalist at the dawn of his fifties.
In January 2022, he was dismissed from the air after a complaint of sexual assault filed by a former weather presenter from BFMTV-RMC, journalist Fanny Agostini. A month later, the host had been targeted by a second complaint for sexual assault, harassment and sexual exhibition, for facts dating back to the end of the 1980s.
Jean-Jacques Bourdin, who contested all of these accusations, then denounced “the public instrumentalization of this procedure” and “serious attacks” on his personal and professional life. The investigation was finally dismissed for prescription in April 2022. After this case, the host had bounced back to Sud Radio at the end of August 2022.
